TTAC's Little House Of Horrors: Top Ugly Car Picks Pics
Yesterday, Cammy asked what could be the ugliest car. She said “currently on market,” but that limitation that was soon forgotten. Being a customer centric blog, we opened it up to the ugliest of all times. And who knows, ugly as they are, they still might be “on market,” looking for a buyer with a vision problem. Or a warped sense of humor. And with this, we present to you: TTAC’s Top Ugly Car Picks Pics. The Best and the Brightest pick the worst of the worst.
Pgcooldad thinks: “This has got to be it! Hint … It’s a Fiat.” And because he was the only one to send in a video, he gets top billing. (The TTAC software makes it easy as child’s play to put a video on top, and you need to be an Advanced Nerd (promotable), to place a video into the text itself. That’s the real reason.)
Dukeboy01: “I vote for the 2010 Acura ZDX. It has the same goofy proportions and strange design elements, like a chopped down rear hatch and a nose piece that looks like it was styled by a chimpanzee with a dull tomahawk.”
Jpcavanaugh: “The ugliest US vehicle in production is the Chevy Colorado pickup.”
Bonus from Jpcavanaugh: “As for an ugly classic? Awfully hard to top the 62 Dodge Dart.”
croatoan: “For historical ugly, it’s difficult to beat the Saab Sonnets in any of their many iterations.” (TTAC Subminiature Award.)
Ingvar: “Without a doubt, the SsangYong Rodius. A car that makes epithets like “flying vaginas” sound like something coming from a church choir.” (Special mention for most outrageous language. Anything with “vagina” in it will get my attention.)
Jimmy7 says it short but not sweet at all: “STILL the Datsun F-10.” Picking Curbside Classic: The Ugliest Car Ever? 1977 Datsun F-10 gets the “entry with the least effort” prize.
Joe McKinney adds: “Datsun had several ugliest car contenders. There was the F10, and there was also the 200SX.”
Ronnie Schreiber. “Hands down, a top ten contender for sure, the Mohs Ostentatienne Opera Sedan.” (TTAC’s Arcane Knowledge Award.)
Flipper: “Amc Matador 4Dr 1975”
Wheeljack: “The coupe was hit with the ugly stick much harder.”
Stingray: “Fiat Multipla hands down. So ugly even my wife that don’t care much about cars told me when she saw it in Rome: that thing is fugly.” (Send a picture of your wife, and you will get an award.)
Jim Sutherland: “This 1961 Dodge wagon is so ugly that it’s beautiful. It was a real attention-getter at the show.”
IGB: “The 2011 Hyundai Azera. Even though it’s a current car…it’s not.” (Special prize for poetry in motion.)
That’s it! Thank you for the many nominations, and sorry that all the ones that did not send in a link received short shrift. It’s Sunday, and I’m lazy.
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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What? No mention of the Reliant Robin? Or the hideous Mercedes R?? And I third and fourth the opinion of the Bangled Beemers! Even though he quit two years ago, his debris still contaminates the new models.