Whats The Ugliest Vehicle On The Road

I'm with DFB on his nomination of just about the entire line of BMW's right now. The M3/4 is offensive, but I really dislike the current gen M2, and think the 7 series is hideous. After the cars got ugly, their SUV's weren't half bad, but the designers caught up and made all of those ugly as well. The only hope for the brand is their "Neue Klasse" design language with I think will at least make them interesting to look at again. I kind of like the iX3.

Overall, I think there are a fair share of ugly cars on the road like the Cybertruck, but even worse are the boring cars. Many are just an anynomous blob SUV, or an oversized pickup truck with a massive grill. Snore...
 
Desertnate said:
I'm with DFB on his nomination of just about the entire line of BMW's right now. The M3/4 is offensive, but I really dislike the current gen M2, and think the 7 series is hideous. After the cars got ugly, their SUV's weren't half bad, but the designers caught up and made all of those ugly as well. The only hope for the brand is their "Neue Klasse" design language with I think will at least make them interesting to look at again. I kind of like the iX3.

Overall, I think there are a fair share of ugly cars on the road like the Cybertruck, but even worse are the boring cars. Many are just an anynomous blob SUV, or an oversized pickup truck with a massive grill. Snore...
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Styling is one of the things that draws me to cars. It's why I get so animated by designs that were clearly intended to be ugly and controversial. Either they are doing it to make a statement, but usually it's to cover up an otherwise mediocre vehicle. More and more cars come across as being over-styled, as if the designer didn't know when to put the pencil down and they just kept adding crap until the tooling was made. One particular Asian car company is guilty of this across the entire lineup, I'd hate to be the panel beater trying to fix them after a crash (probably why so many light bingles are write-offs these days).

I get the car companies need to continue to evolve and progress, but very few cars being made today are universally good looking. In a recent interview with ex-Jaguar design chief Ian Cullum, when questioned about the overall stylistic direction of cars he said the following........................

".........I look a lot of the stuff at the moment, and I really worry there is a lack of elegance with these cars.................."
In other words, stylistic decisions being made with no thought put into cohesion. The result ends up being a random collection of weird shit on the same car. I know styling is subjective, but I think we are living through the ugliest cars in history at the moment. I'm sort of glad I'm not in the market for a car right now, nothing really grabs me. And as a car person, that's actually quite sad.

As for the current BMW M2, sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The previous model looked athletic and muscled up, the new one looks bloated and fat. It's also just too big, the old M2 and 1M were perfectly sized. If I wanted a roomier 2-Series, then that's what the 3-Series is for.











 
DFB said:
Styling is one of the things that draws me to cars. It's why I get so animated by designs that were clearly intended to be ugly and controversial. Either they are doing it to make a statement, but usually it's to cover up an otherwise mediocre vehicle. More and more cars come across as being over-styled, as if the designer didn't know when to put the pencil down and they just kept adding crap until the tooling was made. One particular Asian car company is guilty of this across the entire lineup, I'd hate to be the panel beater trying to fix them after a crash (probably why so many light bingles are write-offs these days).

I get the car companies need to continue to evolve and progress, but very few cars being made today are universally good looking. In a recent interview with ex-Jaguar design chief Ian Cullum, when questioned about the overall stylistic direction of cars he said the following........................

".........I look a lot of the stuff at the moment, and I really worry there is a lack of elegance with these cars.................."
In other words, stylistic decisions being made with no thought put into cohesion. The result ends up being a random collection of weird shit on the same car. I know styling is subjective, but I think we are living through the ugliest cars in history at the moment. I'm sort of glad I'm not in the market for a car right now, nothing really grabs me. And as a car person, that's actually quite sad.

As for the current BMW M2, sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The previous model looked athletic and muscled up, the new one looks bloated and fat. It's also just too big, the old M2 and 1M were perfectly sized. If I wanted a roomier 2-Series, then that's what the 3-Series is for.











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It almost looks like AI was involved in the new design.
 
Tesla Cybertruck.
I live in the south and the first time that I saw one on the road, I thought that Bubba had welded sheet metal onto the frame of an--I didn't know what.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
 
DFB said:
As for the current BMW M2, sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The previous model looked athletic and muscled up, the new one looks bloated and fat. It's also just too big, the old M2 and 1M were perfectly sized. If I wanted a roomier 2-Series, then that's what the 3-Series is for.
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The weight and size are huge detractors. It's also too complex. When the M2 first came out, they claimed to be channeling the 2002. They are way off with this current gen. I don't even like the looks of it. Maybe from the back, but that's it.

I think the previous gen M2's are among some of my favorite BMW's of all time. I test drove them twice during that first generation's lifecycle but they never depreciated enough for it to work fincancially. I was a long-time fan of the brand and have owned two (an E46 sedan and a F33 435) which I loved to drive and look at, but that ship has sailed. Nothing they build compels me these days.

On the topic of ugly BMW's, I've found I really like the M4 GT3 car. On track, the design kinda works for me. As a street car...nope.

I'm sort of glad I'm not in the market for a car right now, nothing really grabs me. And as a car person, that's actually quite sad.
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Ditto. I love my BRZ and it's going to be in my garage for a long time, but I need something more practical for a daily that doesn't require my wife and I working out plans swap vehicles every time we need to transport more than one person, do an airport pick-up, or haul some slightly oversized item from the store.

Nothing compels me as a total package. The list of cars is pretty short these days. Of the few options left they are either ugly inside or out (or both), under powered, or simply don't drive very well. I was actually suprised by how much I liked the current gen Camry until I had to do a rapid highway merge...
 
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I'm going to echo the statement about the black wheels and raise it one, bring back a choice of colors. I'm going to show my age here but primer gray and satin are yuck.
 
DFB said:
Typically, when a styling direction causes controversy, read ugly, well it ages better over time. But then there are ugly cars full stop that time simply cannot soften.

Why BMW? Why did you go with this hideous beaver teeth look? It's revolting when it debuted, and its revolting to this day. And people complained about the Bangle era "Flame Surfacing"....................this is on another level.



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Also on BMW, the completely pointless 5-Series GT. This car was designed for the person who didn't want an X5 SUV, but also didn't want a wagon, and didn't want a coupe, convertible, or sedan. Come on, who would deem this a necessary inclusion to the BMW range, the answer to a question no one asked. On that some note, I'm going to say the pointless X4 and X6.





The truly awful Chrysler Misfire Crossfire, of which Clarkson said looked like a dog taking a du......................





Another Chrysler, the PT Cruiser. Totally repulsive, especially the convertible.





Speaking of convertibles, the Murano.........................................what were they thinking?





The 90's Ford Taurus, I'd love to meet the designer of this thing, how on earth did they sign off on this trainwreck.



The Aztec is an obvious one, which apparently is seeing a resurgence with people seeking them out. No thanks.



I remember a car industry insider once said it costs just as much to design an ugly car as it does a good looking car.
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If the Aztec wasn't featured in Breaking Bad, I reckon the 'resurgence' would never have occured
 
I don't mean to pile on here, I present THIS to thee
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yakky said:
I'm going to echo the statement about the black wheels and raise it one, bring back a choice of colors. I'm going to show my age here but primer gray and satin are yuck.
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100% with you on the black wheels. I didn't like it when they were a new thing...still don't.

The lack of color choices kills me. I remember as a kid in the late 70's and 80's, a white vehicle was either a fleet van for a company or a rental car from the airport. Now it is the most common paint color! It is a vicious cycle. Car buyers seem to choose color based on resale prices. The assumption is a bright or unusual colors will make the car hard trade/sell later, so they chose the "safe" colors like gray, white, or black rather than going with something they really enjoy. Since that's what people are buying, that's what the automaker offer, and the world gets boring.

On that note of ugly colors, the ones that look like polished primer with clearcoat have got to go...
 
Some black wheels look good and some don't. Putting all white cars or any color under the same umbrella is short sighted. There is a multitude of shades/styles of white. We had a 2012 Buick Regal GS with beautiful White TriCoat paint. Just the paint color was a $500.00 upgrade in 2012. I've ordered, not bought off the lot brand new cars in white.
Same could be said about any color. Ford has/had a blue that made me almost puke everytime I saw it. Greens can be awesome or hideous.
 
BLM said:
Some black wheels look good and some don't. Putting all white cars or any color under the same umbrella is short sighted. There is a multitude of shades/styles of white. We had a 2012 Buick Regal GS with beautiful White TriCoat paint. Just the paint color was a $500.00 upgrade in 2012. I've ordered, not bought off the lot brand new cars in white.
Same could be said about any color. Ford has/had a blue that made me almost puke everytime I saw it. Greens can be awesome or hideous.
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They can look good with a nice polished lip and the right accents. The ones where we all know they are just the basic silver wheel with now new black paint are really bad. Early on I wondered were these guys spray painting their own wheels.

The other issue with black wheels is they are black until you drive them down the road. Then they turn brown.
 
With wheels the design of the spoke can make or break them, I can take or leave black wheels, depending on the design and finish, but I've never liked the look of chrome wheels, but I do like polished alloy, but not polished to a mirror finish. I don't mind white wheels either, especially on a Mustang, just joking Deyon.

As I said, spoke design is important, do you think this design was on purpose? Once you see them, you can't unsee them.PSX_20260506_084928.jpg
 
Yeah some designed those!

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BLM said:
Putting all white cars or any color under the same umbrella is short sighted. There is a multitude of shades/styles of white. We had a 2012 Buick Regal GS with beautiful White TriCoat paint. Just the paint color was a $500.00 upgrade in 2012. I've ordered, not bought off the lot brand new cars in white.
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Color choice is extremely personal, and like many artistic things, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For me, I've not seen a single car in white where I liked the color over the decades. I'll admit to being strange that way. When I was active in the BMW community people raved about Alpine White, but I could never see the attraction. My mother-in-law loves the color and has a series of pearl white cars. I'll keep those cars shiny for her and let her enjoy it. Full disclosure: We've owned a pearl white Acura MDX for 3.5 years. It was the perfect car for us at the time and we thought we'd come to love the color. We've really tried. I'm pretty cool to it and my wife likes it less now than when we bought the car. Just goes to show everyone is different.

Same could be said about any color. Ford has/had a blue that made me almost puke everytime I saw it. Greens can be awesome or hideous.
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I seem to recall a blue Ford put on the Focus RS I didn't care for. Ditto for the Boost Blue Honda uses on the Civic Type R and the Performance Blue Hyundai uses on the N cars. Just not my cup of tea.

Totally agree on the greens. Genesis has a beautiful dark green metallic, but one of the greens offered by Audi, and the olive green Toyota offers(ed) on the Tacoma really did nothing for me.

yakky said:
They can look good with a nice polished lip and the right accents.
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I have seen a couple like that on some classic cars. They were design with five wide spokes in black set into a chrome rim. I've seen several iterations like it and it seemed to work with the car. The chrome balanced things out so it wasn't just a dark void in the side of the car.

The ones where we all know they are just the basic silver wheel with now new black paint are really bad. Early on I wondered were these guys spray painting their own wheels.
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Funny you should bring this up. On my Subaru BRZ the wheels are a satin gray metallic. On the Toyota GR86, they use the exact same wheel, but paint them black.
 
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