(first posted 12/7/2014. I don’t normally repost old QOTDs, but there’s a lot of great stuff in the 358 comments. And you might find some newer cars since then to add to them)
Everybody always yammers about how ugly cars and trucks are nowadays, starting with their big-mouthed over-wrought front ends. Well, as nostalgic as we tend to be about the good old days, unless you’re wearing mighty strong rose-tinted glasses, this ’56 GMC truck is as bad as anything out today, if not worse. Was there ever an uglier front end? And it was sitting next to a car with another bad face.
Yes, this ’54 Plymouth’s face is a mess, even if it’s somehow endearing just because it’s from so long ago. But it was roundly panned at the time.
Misery loves company.
So new or old; what’s the ugliest automotive mug shot you can come up with?
How about the Aurora Safety Car concept?
I have to admit that may be the worst looking car ever. It looks like what would be produced if you ate a ton of mercury and cellophane and waited a day to see what you, um, “made”.
Reworked Audi front end – almost carlike.
I needed some laughs and the old and new comments did it! Thanks. The Nissan Cube is to me A-Plus ugly front and rear.
Without a doubt Subaru tribeca
1974 AMC Matador with the “Jimmy Durante” nose. They tried to make the car longer in length but still waned to use the old front fenders and pretty much the same hood. The new for 1974 Matador Coupe was also ugly in the front end.
Also a lot of the 2020 and 2021 Toyota cars have ugly front ends like this Corolla.
I must have mental illness. There’s plenty of the ’50s and ’60s “ugly cars” that I like very much. I think the GMC pickup in the lead photo is wonderful. I want to own a ’59 Buick. Lovely, and menacing. I thought “Christine” should have been a ’59 Buick.
Maybe it’s just a matter of being used to them.
My “ugliest car”? A Bullet-Nosed Studebaker, AFTER the owner modifies it by removing the front bumper and attaching structure.
Some good candidates but the Mitsuoka Orochi grosses me out because even though other colors are available it seems to have been designed but with this slightly sickening flesh color in mind:
And from the past, the 1958 Lincoln Continental.
Yeah you’ll never be able to unmake that mental association that made
that LOL
Virtually every Lexus and Toyota product today, with a front end swiped directly from my Mom’s ’61 Plymouth Suburban wagon, a face even my mother couldn’t love. Hideous, and hilarious to me that Toyota’s “designers” try to pass it off as current or ground-breaking.