It doesn't have to be a real production car, it can also be a concept.

For me, it has to be the 1997 Dodge Copperhead. This ugly chungus just speaks to me and I don't know why. It is hideous, Pontiac Aztek levels of ugly, but I kinda wish Dodge actually sold it. It wasn't going to be gutless, sharing much with the Viper, but it also wasn't going to have the same price of the Viper (Viper at the time was ~$75k, this baby would have been ~$30k). For the price, a little ugly isn't that big of a deal for a similar powertrain. Surely a facelift kit could help it out some.

Just thought a discussion like this could be fun. What cars are the same for you?

I've never even heard of the Dodge Copperhead, but I'm with you.

It is hideous, Pontiac Aztek levels of ugly

It's definitely something of a "butter face" for sure.

Much better! 😆

I do think the Aztek is ugly as sin but I did think they looked kind of cool/cyberpunk.

Pontiac Trans Sport (1990)

never bought one but I always liked the Plymouth pt cruiser's look.

also Chevy HHR got a lot of hate but I thought it was neato.

Edit.. well I meant the SSR from Chevy, but misremembered as the pt cruiser wannabe HHR, my bad

Looks like a car out of a bugs bunny cartoon.

Happy pride month!

Walk me through this one. Why do you secretly like it? Does it have good features or price? Or does it just speaks to you on an unknowable level?

Dodge Caliber

Yeah, that back looks much closer to the Pontiac Solstice, which I always thought was a good looking car. I knew a retired guy with one who’d lied about his age during WWII and wound up ferrying aircraft. He was a firecracker when you’d get to talking with him and it seemed like a fun car.

I was tempted to get an HHR back in the day, but they didn't offer manual transmission.

Ended up getting a similarly divisive Subaru Baja.

No, it’s an absolute piece of junk. There’s just something about that intensely 80s design. Looks like a vacuum cleaner. If I needed a minivan and something just like that… But hopefully good quality… Came out, I would absolutely buy that today (new)

Isuzu vehicross. It's got stretched proportions in all the wrong places, and yet, I dig the weirdness.

You know, I kinda like it too.

The Kalashnikov CV-1. I would have bought one of those in a heartbeat if it hadn't been a concept car.

i absolutely LOVE these.

i actually really like the look of the original ford ka with the plasnic bumpers. especially the cabriolet version:

the fiat multipla is of course the classic contender:

and then there's the REVAi, better known as the G-Wiz:

it looks like a real-life choro-Q car!

and a personal favourite, which i don't think is even a bit ugly, it's just a marvel of design: the europe-only version of the 2006 honda civic.

literally no bad angles.

I've heard people call the Farrari F50 ugly but it's my favourite car from Need for Speed 2 and I've always liked the looks of it

lol I had a coworker that drove one of these for years.

it has so many cool design features that it's amazing how shitty it looks when you see one irl.

The looks aren't as bad as the fact that it's a dodge.

Ok, now I have to know your dream girls (or guys).

It's like pile of rotting shit. Every month something breaks, and replacement parts costed a fortune (in Europe)

My dad got one he got for cheap, and found out why it's so cheap very quickly. Very cool looking and feeling car otherwise

I drove a rented Aztek on vacation once, and it was just fine. Rear visibility sucked, but it was a perfectly cromulent vehicle.

I always liked the AMC Gremlin, my friend had one in high school and it was fun-ugly.

The Multipla is the one I immediately pictured but I did not know the name

Subaru XT (Alcyone or Vortex in some markets).

I owned one of these. The aerodynamics were great for a 1980s car. It even had purely mechanical flush door handles, which modern car designers could learn from.

Kinda reminds me of the cars from that 90s Romeo and Juliet movie:

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/rant-we-need-to-talk-about-about-the-cars-in-the-1996-film-romeo-juliet/278607/page1/

Look, fuck Nazis and Elon but I repeat myself. And there is a lot wrong with the vehicle overall. But I really don't hate the cybertruck's aesthetic.

Objectively ugly is almost an oxymoron, but, the multipla comes as close as it gets by violating damn near every design principle I ever learned lol.

And I like it because it defies conventional design paradigms in favor of practicality and ended up being iconic in its own way. If they were to be available here in the states, as a hybrid or electric, and didn't engage in the fuckery with transmitting everything you do, I'd actually prefer one over many prettier options.

Citroen SM

Looks like an inflatable!

They were just playing with Moskvich Kombi design, and wow those rims are ugly

For a while (and still now tbh) I wanted the SS model of the HHR. Thought it would be cool to do it black on black and call it the hearse.

Right? It looks like when you make a custom RPG character and just min max all the facial feature sliders for funny effect.

Friend in high school had one of these. We referred to it as "The Shuttlecraft"

I didn't know the pt cruiser was a question that needed an answer... Chevy did their ..
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HHR.

damn my initial comment I was thinking SSR and cross wired with they wayyy less good HHR. my bad I hadn't thought of any of these in like 15-20 yrs.

The Multipla justifiably gets a lot of hate, but it had great visibility, and seats six (three front seats rather than two).

It really is fugly though.

I mean, compared to the F40 its not really a fair competition, I can see where people are coming from calling it ugly, but I think its still a good looking car. I prefer other Ferarris, but its not the ugliest one. I think its at least above average, even among the Ferarri catalog.

I like the box/toaster cars (Kia Soul, Honda Element, etc.). Vertical trunk space is underrated. What’s the point of a deep trunk when the hatch door slants so low.

The dust buster van. Them things used to be EVERYWHERE, I don't remember the last time I've seen one in person. Did they all get cash for klunkered?

I think they may have all exploded or just rusted down to the tires. I rode in one as a kid because my friends parents had one. Compared to my family car it was so cool. That front angle, it was like a space ship. I was very jealous of my friend. It seems sill now.

It's ok to be wrong sometimes

Looks like it'd be right at home home in Rocket League!

I always liked the first gen Nissan Juke. The styling was the right kind of odd for me, and I thought it was kinda cool that you could get it with a maunal on the front wheel drive models. They did the split headlight thing better than the Pontiac Aztek imo. (tho that car did have a minifridge in it, which the Juke did not lmao). Idk if they were any good to own long term tho.
Apparently there are 3 Juke-R's out there in the wild somewhere, where Nissan crammed the GT-R engine into it lmao

The Snoot Droops

I'm gonna get so much hate for this but it's the answer sooo here goes....

Cyber truck. I never once said it looks good. But it's got style I like. But I like the back to the future/ bladerunner style of it. I've always loved the DeLorean and that's almost entirely the same thing.

And it makes me sick sometimes that I don't hate it as much as I should because of them. And I live somewhere where I see a lot of them causally around just like anything other vehicles in spite of how bad they are productionally, if that's even a word

Edited. Not sure why I felt like I needed to change what I wrote, probably the weed

I see a sidewinder in the background too. That was always my favorite of their concepts in that era.

I think the Lamborghini LM002 might be the bad looking darling of my childhood.

Or the Bizzarini BZ-2001 concept. I had a poster on my wall.

that car reminds me of Harry Melling

Everyone just got whiplash from your change in style from the 2 different vehicles. Was a fun ride you took us on with. Are you even allowed to say that abbreviation of HHR though, by your peer group?

Have you ever seen one in person? It's like it was put together by a three year old.