Top 20 Ugliest Cars of All Time

it's just such a sad car look at that it's just so sad it's welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our piics for the most hideous automobiles in the history of the industry seeing as most Cube owners will spend their time sitting in it rather than looking at it will ease ourselves in gently number 20 BMW Isetta step inside let us tell you the tale of one of the strangest little cars ever made in perhaps one of the scariest we've driven on one hand we told get it the idea of micro cars is cute right the BMW assetta was initially born from the Italian ISO Spa firm which specialized in refrigerators scooters and Tiny trucks this sort of tracks as the assetta is also shall we say compact but the bumper car design of the assetta feels like an eyesore and is unsafe to boot I keep instinctively reaching for a seat belt that isn't there no there's no safety at all you know what I'll be honest James I'm pretty concerned right now when BMW took over it didn't get any prettier yeah these single cylinder single door Vehicles were actually popular in their day primarily due to their fuel economy still this doesn't change much about their squished appearance making the side benefit one that arrives armed with a side order of ugly number 19 the 1976 rollsroyce Kamar automobile journalists have historically held mixed opinions when it came to the Kamar line from Rolls-Royce it was also number 38 in my friend Richard Porter's book on crap cars in 2005 now however though I think it's perhaps coming back some see the car as one of the worst to ever come off the assembly line while the kar's appearance has been both defended and rejected over the years for the most part however the Kamar has been lambasted for its ugly front and back ends the 1976 model in particular looks like a Frankenstein's monster of small compact in the back and perceived luxury in the front the headlights and Grill make this Kamar a bad dream best left forgotten it's what I would describe as a Marite car you either like it or you don't like like it at all um a lot of people fall into the latter category number 18 1970 Marcos mantis the Marcos engineering company from Britain no longer exists and it's easy to see why with car brands like the Marcos mantis well I driven one of your cars and it it was the most blinding afternoon it really was I'm surprised I managed to get in one piece production of the Mantis began in the late' 60s and it would take some serious rebranding in the 9s in order to bring the model back to life that's because the 1970 iteration was somewhat Infamous for hideous appearance and lack of popularity in fact Marcos was actually offering the Mantis in component form in early 1971 effectively putting the Cabos on this experiment and heading back to the drawing board the car we're featuring today a 1971 Marcos to my eye this is one of the prettiest and most unusual sports cars of all time number 17 1976 Aston Martin laganda 1976 it arrived and it's then it's weirdly it's Series 2 it's a pretty telling fact that the esteemed Aston Martin Corporation only produced 645 of the laganda between 1974 and 1990 Aston Martin is largely associated with cuttingedge James Bond cars not junky ugly mistakes in the londas defense the interior does its best to impressed with a space age design that's very indicative of the era however the lines of this thing are all wrong the hood and headlights disconcertingly narrow and the vibe as a whole just Unworthy of the name Aston Martin we wouldn't even wish this car on a bond villain I enough let him if you have no objection I'll take my money now what's the matter solo too big for you to handle number 16 sin model S1 you'd be forgiven for not being aware of the sin cars company from Bulgaria the car is not made by EST terish brand or developed by one of the traditional car making countries instead the car has its roots in Bulgaria the private company was founded by Rosen desolv in 2012 and initially built their brand around Ultra supercars such as the model S1 on the one hand we totally understand the build for Speed concept around its light design as well as the options for customizable components that said the sin model S1 looks like the result of a Crea car video game mod got horribly wrong like let your little brother or sister play with the controls level wrong s cars may be fast but they're certainly not easy on the eyes Nico who's in my spot ugly little car crap crap crap what do we do number 15 Plymouth Prowler the car featuring today 19 99 Plymouth Prowler I'm smiling because this is a car I think could have been great don't get us wrong we totally appreciate retro as well as the sentiment of diimler Chrysler to turn back the clock with the design of their Plymouth Prowler yet the end results just don't justify even the best of intentions since the Plymouth Prowler doesn't really do justice to the old school hot rods it's attempting to mimic the bumpers appear misplaced and the wheel design makes the Plymouth prow feel more like a Hot Wheels experiment come to life than a proper sort of retro survival this one was a nice try but no dice almost every Magazine review you read just beat it up for not being faster than a Mustang or Corvette or something number 14 Nissan s cargo there is well a lot going on with the design of the Nissan s cargo getting the obvious out of the way yes the name is absolutely meant to sound like the food s cargo it looks like a snail and the French word for snail is es cargo I'm serious Beyond this however the S cargo looks more like something that would be hanging in a museum than running on the road the boxy design is tall and unwieldy with weird Windows including ones that look like a ship's port hle and a disastrous back end let's face it nothing short of a miracle would allow anybody to look cool in a Nissan sargo I'm 6'3 this is a ruler I'm going to put it upright on my head and it still doesn't touch the roof number 13 Volkswagen Type 181 this is a 197 74 Volkswagen Thing it's slow it's funny looking it has no amenities and it has absolutely no safety equipment of any kind a Volkswagen Type 181 was known by a number of names over the years following its initial production of the West German Army call it a courier wagon a treer a safari or perhaps tellingly the thing a type 181 by any other name would still be ugly this peace metal vehicle could literally be taken apart featuring removable doors and roof and a windshield that could be folded flat like some sort of Looney Tunes cartoon that said the type 181 branded cars are reliable and possess good fuel economy but struggle to escape their image of being the sort of thing you'd see scooting around in an old war movie it looks like the kind of military vehicle that you would get if you gave a child a pencil and a piece of paper in 20 minutes number 12 the 1957 Aurora the conception and production of the 1957 Aurora feels like one of those stories that defy description the car was only produced for a year and was the brain shout of a Catholic PRI priest named father Alfred a Juliano the history behind the Aurora uh was that it was built over a period of time by a priest in uh Harford Connecticut the Aurora was developed by Juliano who possessed knowledge of both art and auto manufacturing with safety on his mind the car succeeded in this aim as well existing as a well-made car with the long haul in mind when it came to a safe and reliable Driving Experience it achieved this however at the expense of style with the Aurora becoming a bulbous and Bloated example of space AG design gone horribly wrong it's um 7t 6 in wide and 20t long and yet he was trying to make the safest car in the world and it it's just bizarre it's almost a contradiction number 11 City Car you want a car that uses as little gas as possible or ideally no gas at all what's the solution this oh come on no one's that desperate hey think that electric vehicles are just a modern day invention think again because the saing Vanguard company actually tried taking this route way back in 1974 the city car enjoyed production for about 3 years and served as an inspiration for EVS of the future including the Buddy cars over in Norway don't think for a second that this Goodwill makes the city car or the Buddy if we're being honest look stylish or cool however because this thing looks more like a door stop the sliding windows are weird the slanting lines unattractive and the headlights look small cold and dead we understand there was a fuel shortage back in the' 70s but come on so that's the city car a hilarious little electric cheese wtch from the 7s number 10 AMC Gremlin we're not quite sure who thought it was a good idea to name this car a gremlin but you know what it's pretty damn accurate the twodo sub compact is about as beautiful as its namesake in production from 1970 to 1978 the gremlin featured a similar body to the AMC hornet but it was shortened and it boasted if you can call it that a nearly vertical hatchback tail the gremlin was designed to compete with fuele efficient European and Japanese offerings but it failed to live up to those global standards with cars like the Gremlin it's no surprise AMC couldn't hang in with the big auto manufacturers it's a good quality American-made car for the period it just not the sexiest thing ever number nine tat magic Iris if only they'd spend as much time on the design as they did on the name Will the car manufacturer based out of India didn't exactly strike gold with the tatan Nano its real creme de laa is the magic Iris entering production in 2010 and still in production as of 2024 this three-door four to five seater microvan looks like a toy kindergarten ERS would run around playing with not a car you'd actually drive but it does have an interesting purpose within the cramped Streets of Indian cities the tiny magic iris is designed to compete with auto Rick Shaws it's a niche market the new magic iris from tart Motors the international ride for the new India number eight Chrysler PT Cruiser it's hard to Define exactly what kind of car the PT Cruiser really is in some ways it resembles your standard four-door car while other ways it looks like an SUV if you look at it just right you may also think it looks like the Monopoly car or at least a malformed one a mobbly car if you will you me Dwight are going to jump in my PT Cruiser we're going to crush this sale it was in a category all its own but fortunately it was one that didn't stick around the five-door hatchback was produced for 10 years halting in 2010 and actually had surprisingly decent sales throughout its run but of course the benefit to driving a PT Cruiser is it's one less PT Cruiser you have to look at on the road but he is allowed to feston the parking space outside his house with a hideous Chrysler PT Cruiser number seven Suzuki X90 so many of the cars on this list just don't make any sense and we're likely the products of designers trying to create the next big thing the Suzuki X90 has to be an example of that because there's no other explanation for its existence between 1995 and 1997 Suzuki produced this Fusion of a car truck and despair with a truck like no the profile of a Fisher Price pedal car and the abbreviated rear end of an SUV the X90 failed to carve out a desirable identity we would give them credit for trying but it's not clear that they actually were number six Pontiac Transport the Pontiac Transport has the best nickname on this list by far the dustbuster the similarities go deeper than just a nickname though because like a dustbuster this confused attempt at a minivan sucks when the transport was introduced as a concept back in 1986 it received rave reviews for futuristic look and features it had the dream car appearance and feels so many consumers desired so the transport was given approval for production fast forward to 1989 when the 1990 model was officially released and the transport had lost all the features consumers craved instead boasting nothing new but an ugly design number five Nissan Juke Nissan has a lot of attractive eye pleasing cars the Juke is not one of them before we get into the model let's just stick on that name when you hear the word Juke you think football you think shifting and bypassing a Defender you think agility now let's look at the car it's big bulky and has wide protruding wheel arches it also claims a high waist line leaving its side windows small and narrow meanwhile the front end has a bunch of what can only be called random obtrusive lights bottom line there's nothing agile or Sleek about the Juke number four Reliant Robin MK1 the robin famously has three rather than four wheels Beyond this there is little in the way of ual excitement to behold here even as far back as the 1970s when the Mark 1 was first produced the automotive world was seeing regular gains in steering technology so we're not quite sure why three wheels seemed like an attractive investment but Reliant went for it perhaps more surprisingly the public went for it the robin sold well though that was likely the result of its fuel efficiency and an odd reduced tax in licensing loophole which were all appealing features in a fuel short cash strapped UK number three Pontiac Aztec maybe you don't got or Pontiac from 2001 to 2005 Pontiac sold this absolute hunk of an implosion of a midsize crossover building it as a utility vehicle for the Modern Family when your vehicle's big features are removable cooler grocery compartments a tent and cup holders you know you've gone wrong and those were on the interior the real problems were on the exterior where the car was too bulky had strange plastic cladding narrow windows and a crazy front end still it did eventually earn a welcome place in pop culture but only thanks to meth Chef Walter White and only after after the Aztec left the market it's just so sad it's a sign that your life has gone terribly terribly wrong a number two Fiat multipla everyone's bound to make a mistake every once in a while and you could make a fairly strong argument that Italian car manufacturer Fiat is among the best when it comes to producing Sleek stylish cars still they couldn't escape botching at least one model the multipl where to even begin the multipla is a clunky misshapen mess its front end looks like the bill of a duck and the car boasts way too many lights to make sense the design is bulky in every area except in the back where there's very little trunk room we could use more worse to describe the multipla but this is definitely one of those a picture says a thousand word scenarios before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one Nissan Cube Nissan strikes out again almost universally considered the worst car of all time the cube appears exactly as its name suggests sold from 2009 to 2014 in the World At Large the cube we've come to know and well no was actually the third attempt with the first tube being sold in Japan only oi however well the cube is as the name implies boxy its designers did attempt to inject some style notably it claims an asymmetric wraparound rear window well that does break up the design a bit it doesn't do much to overcome the whole it's a box Vibe and really only amplifies the uh Factor feel like defending any of these cars ever owned one do you currently own one let us know in the comments it was on the road for a year went to all the auto ramas and motor ramas um he never took an order and the company went bankrupt and um the FBI were supposedly called in on a case of fraud did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from watch Mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be 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Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 23 2024