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Considering how many new cars are rolled out every year, it's no surprise that a few might be just plain homely. There's a chance that certain styles might become fashionable with a dash of retro hip. (Well, maybe not from the 1970s.) But for the most part, the following 50 cars will never be anything but design duds.

Besides the obvious vehicles like the Pontiac Aztek and AMC Pacer and Gremlin, it also includes such examples of hideousness as the Ferrari Enzo, Delorean DMC12, and the Lamborghini LM002. Wait... what?

El Camino? Really? Whatever....

Escalade, New Beetle, Enzo, 7 series.

WTF

Modified by 98a4 at 12:49 PM 11-3-2009

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2. Police Car Chases are lame, only an idiot would try to run from the police.

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How about 1?

Normally I think responses like this are just typical TCL knee-jerk, but in this case you're right.

The New Beetle? Really? I mean sure, it's a cutesy retro design, but... seriously?

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More and more evidence is piling up that Europeans are nothing more than Americans with more colorful money and funny accents.

Speed:Sport:Life

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The perfect car design if fuel, practicality, maneuverability, and class mean nothing to you. One of the most self-indulgent vehicles ever made, the Escalade is for looking rich while you're burning gasoline.

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The first mass-produced hybrid must have been an exercise in technology, not design. The spoiler is supposed to make the Prius look sporty. But the car still has all the style of a soybean.

They're criticizing the Escalade for being an evil wretched-excess SUV, and then criticizing the Prius for being aerodynamic...

Modified by MikeNoGo at 9:51 AM 11-3-2009

Who made this list??

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2. Police Car Chases are lame, only an idiot would try to run from the police.

His evaluation is dumb, but the Enzo is hideous.

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More and more evidence is piling up that Europeans are nothing more than Americans with more colorful money and funny accents.

Speed:Sport:Life

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The 7 Series made designer Bangle simultaneously loved and hated. Critics ridiculed the concave and convex panel work—dubbed "flame surfacing"— and the "Bangle-Butt," an extra strip of metal below the trunk.

God forbid, an extra strip of metal below the trunk... that's really the Bangle butt we've been complaining about for 9 years...

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How about 1?

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regarding the Pontiac Aztek, yes a travesty on wheels. The chief designer of it was Chris Bangle, GM's "top" designer, who left and went to BMW around 2000 to join BMW's design team and is responsible for the equally dismal BMW designs we have today...give him time and BMW will fold too, with his design "abilities"

http://app.businessweek.com/Us...47914

i agree with PSG on this.

but i like how the delorean looks.

Modified by meshies at 10:08 AM 11-3-2009

Not to say I don't take exceptions to the list, I love the VW Thing (I'd kill you to own one), we owned and I loved the New Beetle, the El Camino appeals to me because it is so very ugly and hell, I own an Element and can argue its ugly points are highly functional all day long.. But still..Most of these cars are ugly.

The only places he gets it wrong are the Delorean, Prowler, and I'd think the New Beetle.

Also, functional or not, the Enzo is ugly as sin.

Ignore alien orders.

my eyesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!...

edit: the bricklin? i like it too.

Modified by andlf at 1:15 PM 11-3-2009

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Your an idiot.

LOL

Pelko worked at R&T before he was born?

No, that would be Pelko.

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Your an idiot.

I'd like to know what the author drives.

Modified by Beltaine at 10:48 AM 11-3-2009

Adaptive Headlights are cool

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I drive an old Volvo named Walter, and I think its possessed.

Oh and that Volvo is awesome.

Flying brick FTW.

x2 - I dig those things.

an Enzo is on the list - seriously?

"Right. As anyone with a background in biology knows, a human zygote is a dolphin." zukiphile

for the New Beetle, they wrote "The successor to the wildly popular Beetle, this update gave fans the original's classic appeal—that unmistakable dome shape and "smiling" front fascia—with modern underpinnings. Most dramatic was the repositioning of the car's engine from the trunk to the front of the vehicle, which brought better handling and grip." The final sentence shows that he really knows his stuff!

Ten Vehicles That Don't Belong On BuisnessWeek's 50 Ugliest Cars List
http://jalopnik.com/5396274/gallery/