World's ugliest car??? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Craven Morehead · 04-05-2005, 01:01 PM

liquidlight · 04-05-2005, 01:04 PM

What in the name of. . . that thing is an abomination! It had better get 300 miles to the gallon or something amazing like that in order to justify how god-awful that is!

Janey · 04-05-2005, 01:05 PM

I think it's kind of cute.... i'd like to see it in a two-toned mauve or light pink. I can get my Kitty bauble to hang from the mirror.

Redlemon · 04-05-2005, 01:16 PM

That seriously reminds me of a piece of art I saw at Mass MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art). It was a car with additional fiberglass on it, all drooping off as if the car was a 400 pound person. Searching, searching, ah here we go: "Erwin Wurm's cunning Fat Car (2002) is a testament to the need to live large." I hope at least one of these images links OK.

cyrnel · 04-05-2005, 01:16 PM

Definitely a fuzzy-dice candidate. Looks like some concept creation from the 50's.

Could be worse. Could look like an Aztec.

Cynthetiq · 04-05-2005, 01:18 PM

this has been done before... and it will degenerate in the psuedo ricer pictures in 3...2...

Ramega · 04-05-2005, 04:56 PM

No need to resort to rice.

<IMG SRC="http://www.autoseekandsell.com/userimages/aztec.jpg">

Nuff said.

jhkayakr · 04-05-2005, 05:03 PM

I think the Honda Element has got that beat.

thatoneguy · 04-05-2005, 06:18 PM

Hahaha, the Aztek and the Element are the exact ones I thought of when I saw this thread. Those are just horrid loooking, in my opinion.

stingc · 04-05-2005, 08:32 PM

The Aztek has nothing on the Fiat Multipla

Destrox · 04-05-2005, 09:49 PM

Ok, that Fiat just made the element look half-ass decent.

RallyEX · 04-05-2005, 11:00 PM

That pic reminds me of the crummy car homer made for his long lost brother's automobile company on an episode of the Simpsons.

That is pretty ugly, but I think I've seen worse... I definitely dislike the new chevy aveo... One of the worst looking new cars, IMHO.

But then again, you could be driving this:

asudevil83 · 04-05-2005, 11:12 PM

i win.

Seanland · 04-05-2005, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by jhkayakr

I think the Honda Element has got that beat.

omg, i agree, i hate that freaking car so much..

stingc · 04-05-2005, 11:32 PM

Is that red box thing a real car, or just a concept? It looks like it would tip over in the first corner.

Redlemon · 04-06-2005, 05:15 AM

Craven didn't drop the text of his link in regarding that first picture, so I'll do it for him:

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COMEBACK OF THE WORLD'S UGLIEST CAR

A bizarre car that has been dubbed the 'ugliest automobile in the world' is today back on the road 50 years after its launch.

The unique Aurora, a 19 feet long monster that was built by an eccentric New York priest as the ultimate safety vehicle, is now turning heads again.

Father Alfred Juliano bankrupted himself creating the prototype, which remained the only one ever built because the contraption was so full of faults no one wanted one.

It was supposed to be the safest car ever built and included features that are now common, but at the time were unheard of.

It had seatbelts, a roll cage, side-impact bars, a collapsible steering column, foam-filled bumpers and a padded instrument panel.

Its windscreen was curved away from the driver so the possibility of impact with it was reduced.

This design meant that windscreen wipers were not required, but it also distorted the view through it.

The silver and black Aurora included a large "front-end air-scoop" instead of a conventional grill. This was to reduce frictional drag and to lessen injuries to pedestrians it hit.

But its most peculiar safety feature was the seats that swivelled 180 degrees so before a crash those inside could turn round and take the impact backwards.

The silver sedan, shaped like a whale with its mouth gaping, had been sitting in a field in the US for nearly 30 years before madcap Brit Andy Saunders snapped it up.

He has spent the last 12 years of his life doing up the motor that was a disaster from its launch in 1957.

On that day Father Alfred Juliano had planned a huge media party to greet his 30,000 dollar invention.

But TV reporters had to wait all day because it broke down 15 times on the journey to the launch and was towed to seven garages.

The Aurora, which had six headlights, was funded partially by Father Juliano's congregation which donated cash to his whacky project.

After the ambitious scheme failed and Father Juliano went bankrupt the car was taken on by several other owners before it was abandoned ten years after its launch.

It was rediscovered in a field behind a bodyworks shop in Branford, Connecticut.

Andy Saunders, from Poole, Dorset, said: "I was reading a classic cars magazine in 1993 and saw this piece under the "discovered" section about the Aurora being found.

"I thought to myself that I had never seen a car so ugly in all my life but I knew I just had to have it.

"Luckily in the picture in the magazine there was the name of the bodyworks business so I got a number from directory inquiries and called the owner.

"He told me it had been left at his business in 1967 to have some work done but for one reason or another nothing happened to it and it remained in this field ever since.

"Although I had only seen a picture of it, and even in though it looked like it had fallen to bits, I made him an offer because I really wanted it.

"I agreed to pay 1,500 dollars and I had to pay another 2,000 dollars to get it shipped over here from New York.

"When I first saw it in real life I took a deep breath and thought to myself "what have you done?"

"It was originally marketed as the 'world's safest automobile', but was quickly dubbed the 'world's ugliest automobile' - and it's easy to see why.

"I knew straight away it would take me a long time to restore it but I never thought for a minute it would take 12 years.

"The bodywork is made of fibre-glass but parts of it are made of wood and the wood was completely rotten.

"There was no interior whatsoever, that had all been destroyed by the sun - and the windscreen had just turned to yellow.

"When I first started I would work solidly for weeks and weeks and then step back and it looked like nothing had been done do it. It was so demoralising.

"Because this prototype was the only one ever made there were no spare parts to use. So I had to have everything made. It cost much more than I thought it would.

"Although I had photographs of the outside of it to work from there were no pictures of the interior so I had to just use a vision of what I thought it would have looked like in 1957.

"I knew what shape and size the seats were because the frames were still there, but the rest of it was down to my imagination so it probably isn't exactly how it was.

"I have done a lot of ridiculous things with cars, but this has been by far the most difficult.

"It was as if Father Juliano never wanted it to work - possibly that's because of all my swearing.

"The most difficult thing to get hold of was the windscreen. I had several commissioned that didn't work out. No one knows how the original was made.

"Now it is restored the reaction has been incredible. People are amazed at it and it's surprising how many remember it from the failed launch in 1957.

"The Aurora will be on display at the Beaulieu Motor Museum for the next year, then I will get it out on the road.

"I'm not sure what I will do with it after that, but possibly I might sell it to a prototype museum in America."

d3cemberist · 04-08-2005, 05:47 PM

Honda Element, hands down. I almost vomit whenever I see it..

Irishsean · 04-08-2005, 06:33 PM

I dunno, I think its just about as ugly as an AC Cobra...

telekinetic · 04-08-2005, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by stingc

The Aztek has nothing on the Fiat Multipla

Multipla must be Italian for Multiple Banks of Ugly Headlamps

soundmotor · 04-11-2005, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Redlemon

Sort of like a rolling hemorhoid.

Eeeeeyoooooo!

soundmotor

soundmotor · 04-11-2005, 07:12 AM

Can't believe I'm the first with the AMC Pacer, closely followed by the AMC Matador, a streched version of the Pacer.

I can just here someone within AMC, "Hey, we've got a good thing going here.....let's run with it!"

soundmotor

soundmotor · 04-11-2005, 07:17 AM

Don't forget the French:

Whomever said they didn't have a sense of humor was mistaken.

soundmotor

ranger · 04-11-2005, 08:08 AM

the aztek, the element, the PT cruiser, the tracker, and that yellow wagon pickup... thing.

degrawj · 04-11-2005, 10:56 AM

gaaaahhh!!!! the ugliness!!! i can't handle it!! jeez, these are all ugly cars!

soundmotor · 04-13-2005, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by degrawj

gaaaahhh!!!! the ugliness!!! i can't handle it!! jeez, these are all ugly cars!

I'm torn between world's ugliest and best sleeper.

soundmotor

asudevil83 · 04-15-2005, 01:24 PM

soundmotor · 04-15-2005, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by asudevil83

The Bond Bug! (Not 007 Bond)

Way ahead of its time, predated the SMART by 30 years!

soundmotor

userasdf1234 · 04-16-2005, 03:22 PM

I have to go with the Aztec too, i can't stand that car. What were they thinking when they were designing that thing?

tspikes51 · 04-16-2005, 07:01 PM

Or pretty much anything made by Citroen.

doncalypso · 04-16-2005, 07:09 PM

Hmm...

Hatchback on steroids or SUV on the Atkins diet?

McG · 04-17-2005, 08:48 AM

The Aztec is bad, but i think the ugliest is the subaru Baja!

merkerguitars · 04-17-2005, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

this has been done before... and it will degenerate in the psuedo ricer pictures in 3...2...

Right here
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...5497&highlight

Fremen · 04-17-2005, 02:36 PM

That crazy funky car reminds me of Penelope Pitstop's Compact Pussycat.

abscondo · 04-21-2005, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by soundmotor

Don't forget the French

But of all the French cars you could pick, you chose two of the most interesting Citroens! (I'm serious.)

The 2CV was basically the French Volkswagen Beetle -- cheap, durable and made for decades. If it's ugly, well, it's an honest, functional ugliness, not just an attempt to be different for its own sake.

And other one -- the name of which escapes me -- had some fairly sophisticated technology. Plus I honestly don't think it's ugly.

But why is Honda resorting to all the hideous gray plastic exteriors lately?

IanSturgill · 04-28-2005, 11:29 AM

How about a convertible mini cooper

Scorps · 04-28-2005, 09:01 PM

LOL that windshield would make my eyes go crazy the way its shaped.

Rippley · 04-29-2005, 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by abscondo

And other one -- the name of which escapes me -- had some fairly sophisticated technology. Plus I honestly don't think it's ugly.

That would be the DS you're thinkin' of. It had some pretty sophisiticated hydraulics in the suspension, leading to an incredibly cushy ride - and reeeeeeally expensive parts... Citroen kept up the hydraulic suspension for a long time though. Even today they use it, I think, in some of their big cars...

jeffy · 05-02-2005, 11:39 PM

I had to look up what the Honda Element actually looked like -- I've never noticed anyone driving one before (a testament to how undesirable one is).

I personally think the Scion xB is worse though. It kindof looks like a tipped over milk carton.

jeffy · 05-02-2005, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by userasdf1234

I have to go with the Aztec too, i can't stand that car. What were they thinking when they were designing that thing?

I'm surprised that Pontiac is still selling those cars. At least they ditched that ugly yellow paint job that seemed to be on quite a number of them.

RCR · 05-04-2005, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by stingc

The Aztek has nothing on the Fiat Multipla

Excellent choice sir,

Its hideous, but i do like how one can seat 3 people in the front.

Thing is you can be avantgarde without resorting to making it look ugly.

Also the Mk1 current bmw seven series is hideous.

04-05-2005, 01:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
Craven Morehead Custom User Title	World's ugliest car??? maybe

04-05-2005, 01:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
liquidlight AHH! Custom Title!! Location: The twisted warpings of my brain.	What in the name of. . . that thing is an abomination! It had better get 300 miles to the gallon or something amazing like that in order to justify how god-awful that is! __________________ Halfway to hell and picking up speed.

04-05-2005, 01:16 PM	#4 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	That seriously reminds me of a piece of art I saw at Mass MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art). It was a car with additional fiberglass on it, all drooping off as if the car was a 400 pound person. Searching, searching, ah here we go: "Erwin Wurm's cunning Fat Car (2002) is a testament to the need to live large." I hope at least one of these images links OK. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

04-05-2005, 01:16 PM	#5 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Definitely a fuzzy-dice candidate. Looks like some concept creation from the 50's. Could be worse. Could look like an Aztec. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

04-05-2005, 01:18 PM	#6 (permalink)
Cynthetiq Tilted Cat Head Administrator Location: Manhattan, NY	this has been done before... and it will degenerate in the psuedo ricer pictures in 3...2... __________________ I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. What's the best nation in the world? DO-NATION!

04-05-2005, 01:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
Janey Junkie Location: Toronto	I think it's kind of cute.... i'd like to see it in a two-toned mauve or light pink. I can get my Kitty bauble to hang from the mirror.

04-05-2005, 04:56 PM	#7 (permalink)
Ramega Crazy	No need to resort to rice. <IMG SRC="http://www.autoseekandsell.com/userimages/aztec.jpg"> Nuff said.

04-05-2005, 05:03 PM	#8 (permalink)
jhkayakr Insane Location: under the skirt	I think the Honda Element has got that beat. __________________ ........gotta need for speed....

04-05-2005, 06:18 PM	#9 (permalink)
thatoneguy Crazy Location: Omaha, NE	Hahaha, the Aztek and the Element are the exact ones I thought of when I saw this thread. Those are just horrid loooking, in my opinion. __________________ "Thank you for flying Church of England, cake or death?"

04-05-2005, 08:32 PM	#10 (permalink)
stingc Psycho Location: PA	The Aztek has nothing on the Fiat Multipla

04-05-2005, 09:49 PM	#11 (permalink)
Destrox Metal and Rock 4 Life Location: Phoenix	Ok, that Fiat just made the element look half-ass decent. __________________ You bore me.... next.

04-05-2005, 11:00 PM	#12 (permalink)
RallyEX Tilted Location: Southeast Ohio	That pic reminds me of the crummy car homer made for his long lost brother's automobile company on an episode of the Simpsons. That is pretty ugly, but I think I've seen worse... I definitely dislike the new chevy aveo... One of the worst looking new cars, IMHO. But then again, you could be driving this:

04-05-2005, 11:12 PM	#13 (permalink)
asudevil83 Psycho Location: Scottsdale, AZ	i win.

04-05-2005, 11:32 PM	#15 (permalink)
stingc Psycho Location: PA	Is that red box thing a real car, or just a concept? It looks like it would tip over in the first corner.

04-08-2005, 05:47 PM	#17 (permalink)
d3cemberist Crazy	Honda Element, hands down. I almost vomit whenever I see it..

04-08-2005, 06:33 PM	#18 (permalink)
Irishsean edited for content Location: Austin, TX	I dunno, I think its just about as ugly as an AC Cobra... __________________ There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. Leon Trotsky

04-11-2005, 07:12 AM	#21 (permalink)
soundmotor Crazy Location: Near & There	Can't believe I'm the first with the AMC Pacer, closely followed by the AMC Matador, a streched version of the Pacer. I can just here someone within AMC, "Hey, we've got a good thing going here.....let's run with it!" soundmotor

04-11-2005, 07:17 AM	#22 (permalink)
soundmotor Crazy Location: Near & There	Don't forget the French: Whomever said they didn't have a sense of humor was mistaken. soundmotor

04-11-2005, 08:08 AM	#23 (permalink)
ranger Crazy Location: antioch IL	the aztek, the element, the PT cruiser, the tracker, and that yellow wagon pickup... thing. __________________ there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and my way, which is the wrong way faster.

04-11-2005, 10:56 AM	#24 (permalink)
degrawj I'm still waiting... Location: West Linn, OR	gaaaahhh!!!! the ugliness!!! i can't handle it!! jeez, these are all ugly cars!

04-15-2005, 01:24 PM	#26 (permalink)
asudevil83 Psycho Location: Scottsdale, AZ

04-16-2005, 03:22 PM	#28 (permalink)
userasdf1234 Tilted	I have to go with the Aztec too, i can't stand that car. What were they thinking when they were designing that thing?

04-16-2005, 07:01 PM	#29 (permalink)
tspikes51 Fuckin' A Location: Lex Vegas	Or pretty much anything made by Citroen. __________________ "I'm telling you, we need to get rid of a few people or a million." -Maddox

04-16-2005, 07:09 PM	#30 (permalink)
doncalypso TFP Mad Scientist Location: Philadelphia, PA	Hmm... Hatchback on steroids or SUV on the Atkins diet? __________________ Doncalypso... the one and only Haitian Sensation

04-17-2005, 08:48 AM	#31 (permalink)
McG Crazy	The Aztec is bad, but i think the ugliest is the subaru Baja!

04-17-2005, 02:36 PM	#33 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	That crazy funky car reminds me of Penelope Pitstop's Compact Pussycat. __________________ Google

04-28-2005, 11:29 AM	#35 (permalink)
IanSturgill Crazy Location: Lex Vegas, KY	How about a convertible mini cooper

04-28-2005, 09:01 PM	#36 (permalink)
Scorps Lost!! Location: Kingston, Ontario	LOL that windshield would make my eyes go crazy the way its shaped.

05-02-2005, 11:39 PM	#38 (permalink)
jeffy Upright Location: SF	I had to look up what the Honda Element actually looked like -- I've never noticed anyone driving one before (a testament to how undesirable one is). I personally think the Scion xB is worse though. It kindof looks like a tipped over milk carton.