Nomination for fugliest/lamest automobile of the last 5 years...

[Yollam]

The Pontiac Aztek.




Like I've always wanted a fugly mini-SUV that can turn into a tent. (?)

:puke:

Feel free to submit your favorite pukemobile.

[northzax]

1. I loved the Aztec

it was so ugly that you have to like it.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Kind of like a pug

[Squatch]

5. that dog's eyes aren't looking in the same direction

[Akoto]

7. I don't know why, but ..

I can't stop laughing when I look at that picture!

Thanks for that. Headed to the dentist soon, I could use the cheering up. :P

[Yollam]

6. Ugly and small grows on me.

Ugly and cumbersome and big and awkward like the Aztek does not. I wonder if Pontiac will be joining GM sibling Oldsmobile on the ash heap of history soon?

[northzax]

10. so do cancerous tumors

if you're going to have a big SUV why not pick one that is ugly as spit?

besides, it was actually (shockingly) made for doing stuff outside, unlike your average suburban assault vehicle.

[Yollam]

14. Well, I can't imagine myself ever having any SUV.

If I needed a 4x4, I'd get a Subaru wagon one. If I wanted something roomy to go camping with, I'd get a Winnebago, or just bring tents, etc. in a regular car. I've never felt the need to have an SUV, and have yet to see one I liked. I even like minivans better.

[dsewell]

2. If Darth Vader's helmet mated with a dump truck...

the Aztec is what one would expect the offspring to resemble.

[Squatch]

4. Scion xB (Extra boxy)

[Yollam]

8. See, now I actually like the Scion.

I don't know why, but I do.

[distantearlywarning]

18. I have a Scion XB

It looks exactly like the one in the picture. I love it, and I happen to think it looks very cool. To each his own, I guess! :-)

[ET Awful]

32. Yup, I'm not a huge fan, but since I own an Element, I can't say

a thing about boxy, funky lookin' cars :P Personally, I love my Element.

[khashka]

24. Freakin' UGLY

A box on wheels. Ugly, ugly, ugly!

Khash.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

52. Hey! I like the xB.

Might get one when my current car finally goes.

[0007]

63. Holy shit, that is bad! Here's one that will out do it for kinky sex

[billyskank]

9. Not that you guys will know of this, but

The Daewoo Matiz.



Extremely small. Extremely slow. Extra pants. Not that there's anything wrong with small cars, it's just that if you want one there are much better small cars to get. This one is rubbish.

[supernova]

49. Cartoon of a car?

That looks like it should be in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

[billyskank]

54. Sadly these are quite real

I always get stuck behind them. x(

[billyskank]

11. For fugliness, the Fiat Multipla

Actually a very highly-rated MPV (Euro-speak for minivan), but no looker, that's for sure.

[northzax]

12. you know what FIAT stands for, right?

Fix It Again Tomorrow.

[billyskank]

13. That's nothing. Opel had a model called the "Nova"

which in some european languages is uncomfortably close to "doesn't go." Small wonder they renamed it the Corsa... :crazy:

[northzax]

15. hey, Ford tried to sell a Nova in Mexico

and they were built there for a long time. I can't imagine the smile on someone's face building a 'no go' car...

It's like when the DC metro needed new cars for the system. THey bought them in Spain. Spain! great food, super wine, fine dancers. but do you really think of Spain and trains? Italy, sure. France, maybe. Germany, definately. Spain?

they were two years late in delivery.


and let's not forget that FIAT comes from the same country whose national airline stands to Always Late In Taking Off, Always Late In Arriving. Best named airline ever...

[AllegroRondo]

16. Not true

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

[northzax]

17. well, the general feeling of it was true

worked for James Frey...

and after all, the story I told, that Chevy sold a Nova in spanish speaking companies, was, in essence, true, right?

but not Ford, I suppose.

:)

[blondeatlast]

37. As a library cataloger, your post shall remain in nonfiction.

All bets are off if the Library of Congress interferes, though...

[northzax]

45. wow, a blessing from a librarian!

that's better than a papal indulgence!

[amitten]

40. I saw those in Europe. The dashboard looks like some kind of

extreme car birth defect. Like the dashboards of five dissimilar cars all mated to create one deformed bastard child dashboard! :puke:
A ridiculous vehicle from any angle!

[TheBaldyMan]

19. Hummer II

[grace0418]

20. Any Hummer, but especially the one that looks like a short school bus.

The same guys that would make pick on kids who rode the special education school buses now drive them. Hmmm.

[progmom]

21. Aztek, hands down

ick.

[Orsino]

22. Gotta give a shout-out to the Prius...

...which I found ugly even when I decided to buy one. Now that I've had it for a year, though, I see it as beautiful. Can't even remember what I found so unattractive.

I'm probably in the minority.

[Ron Mexico]

28. You're not in the minority.

I love the fact that it's a hybrid, but the car is 70's AMC ugly. It is so unattractive that if I owned one and was going out on a date I'd pick a different car to pick her up in unless I knew she was a hardcore environmentalist.

[ET Awful]

33. The earlier models of Prius I thought were pretty ugly, the new one

though, I actually dig the look of.

[ContraBass Black]

43. Old Prius, or new Prius?

[Orsino]

48. Good point. I was thinking only of the new.

The old one...well, those are fugly. I'll still give 'em a wave when I see 'em, though.

Sometimes, ugly is cool.

[kay1864]

23. Definitely the Aztek

I feel sorry for the people I see driving them, that they have no idea what an ugly car they bought.

But a close second is the Suzuki X-90, which I've seen exactly one of. Looks like it can't decide if it wants to be a car or a 2-door SUV.



Imported for 3 years, then no more. Wonder why.

[SteppingRazor]

25. I have to agree with the Azteck...

When I saw the subject line of this thread, sight unseen, I clicked on it so that I could type in "Pontiac Azteck."

[Ron Mexico]

26. Is the Aztek actually within the last five years?

I agree with the nomination, but wasn't it canned in 2000 or 2001?

[Yollam]

41. They were in production from 2001~2005.

According to wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Aztek

Actually, a pretty interesting article about the contemporary Edsel there...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

27. Hummers are up there, too.

:puke:

[LSK]

29. Toyota Echo

Yeah i know it gets great MPG but it just doesnt look right!

[LeftyMom]

39. Pretty fun to drive tho

I'm doing my lessons in one and kinda like it. Not enough to get one (I need more room for my kid and his crap) but if I was childless I'd put a lot of thought into picking one up.

[mikeytherat]

30. Mercedes' Maybach

$350,000 for a car with a nose taken right from a Hyundai.



Compare with the Hyundai XG300:
http://auto.consumerguide.com/Auto/Used/reviews/full/index.cfm/id/2498/Act/usedcarreviewphotos/img/03803071990002/

mikey_the_rat

[ContraBass Black]

44. I think the Maybach was first.

[hobo_baggins]

56. if im paying 350k for a car...i want it to look like i paid 350k for a car

that looks like any other sedan on the market

[ET Awful]

31. The Aztek takes it.

And before anyone says it, the Honda Element is NOT ugly, it's just weird and funky, and I like mine, so there!

[mikeytherat]

34. Even worse, Azteks painted Kenmore White

There's one I see from time to time at the feed store, and it is refrigerator white - perhaps the most unflattering color for this ugly "car," next to that honest-to-God Schoolbus Yellow color they come in.

mikey_the_rat

[ET Awful]

35. The Aztek looks like what would result if a Grand Am mated with

a Hummer after taking too many hormone replacement pills and too much LSD.

[mikeytherat]

36. I saw one in an "olive drab" color, and it almost looked sorta military

Not good, not even decent, but a bit better than any other color I've seen on this hideous beast. I guess you could say in that color, and that color only, the Aztek moves up from "butt-ugly" to "has a nice personality."

Regardless, I'd still kick it out of the garage.

mikey_the_rat

[Yollam]

42. I can picture that.

It does seem like a color scheme that would help this pitiful "car".

[Archae]

65. Try metallic avocado green.

Guy around here has an Aztec painted like that. :eyes:

[Benfea]

38. I love the look of the Aztec!

I have no interest in "sport" vehicles or I woulda bought one.

[Capn Sunshine]

46. Hummer, a bread van pawned off on rich assholes

8 mpg. THAT is Fugly, let alone the rest

[progmom]

47. after giving it some more thought...

This one is pretty fugly too.

[DelawareValleyDem]

50. Anything that aerodynamic is a thing of beauty to me.

Approximate drag coefficient 0.25

http://www.insightcentral.net/encyclopedia/enaero.html

[ncrainbowgrrl]

53. is that the Insight? (AKA "the insipid")

[Throd]

51. The Pontiac GTO

What a way to squander a legendary name! All of its design cues come from a used bar of soap.

[billyskank]

55. One of my personal favourites...the BMW 7 series

Fucking Ugly. :(

[Yollam]

60. I remember seeing BMWs in the late 70s... they looked chintzy

...about like an early Jetta. I was shocked to ffind out that those cheesy little cars were actually EXPENSIVE - then by the 80's they actually started to look like cars of more substance, but they always had an ugly, GOP-ish yuppie stench about them that I hated. I like Benzez better, but they are still too stodgy.

The pic you posted is kinda ugly, but it seems pretty equivalent to every other BMW of the last 20 years...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

57. Chevy SSR

Just wrong on so many levels...

[Taverner]

58. Agreed on the Aztek

It is FUGLY

[sakabatou]

59. PT Cruiser Convertable

[jakefrep]

61. The entire Honda product line

The Civic, Accord, Element, Ridgeline, Pilot...All of them ugly. I don't care if they can survive a direct nuclear hit - I don't want any of them.

[0007]

62. 1947 Studebaker

[NNadir]

64. Only Hummer has a whole website devoted to giving it the finger.

http://www.fuh2.com/index.php

It is an obscene piece of shit.