RD Summer Fun Contest – The Ugliest Car Ever Made

[Fabrice Bourguignon]

This piece of crap,quite popular in my country during communism. It runs as bad as it looks.

Trabant:

Also the Dacia 1300 Break.

Dacia 1300 is a Renault 12 in France.

 

[T_rac3]

Trabant

I don't think Trabant is ugly. I really found it cute. And Dacia ...
take a look at this one, Dacia 1310 Sport OMG !!!!!!

 

[T_rac3]

Walter White'

Yes, and in an even ugly colour.
When I saw the series I search for the car on the net. I couldn't believe it is a real car and not one like ... batmobil

 

[Fabrice Bourguignon]

BELLIER formule 85
One word: horrible

 

[T_rac3]

Dacia 1300 is a Renault 12 in France

Yes, in our country the communist party had an agreement with Renault. This started with Renault 8, a very BEAUTIFUL car, named here Dacia 1100

From our engineers mind and with help of communist party came this

This is UGLYYYYYYYYYY, Dacia 500

 

[Fabrice Bourguignon]

I did not know that the Renault / Dacia cooperation went back to the 1960s.

 

[shadow118]

Porsche Cayenne 1st gen, it looks like they bolted a 911 front end to an SUV, it just doesn't look good. The later generations looked much better

BMW X3 1st gen (although the later models aren't much better)

BMW 5-Series GT

BMW 3-Series E36 Compact - ok, this one is not that bad, but the proportions just look wrong. It looks like someone just cut off the last 20 cm of the car for no aparent reason

BMW 3-Series E46 Compact... *shudders*

P.S. I'm not a BMW hater, just some of their design choices are questionable

 

[SRS Max]

Twingo 1

 

[Isaac Chavira]

This is not Walter White's car?

It is.

 

[raiod1478]

Current on production, the FIAT Qubo, pretty descriptive name of what it is, just block a of ugliness rolling down the street...

 

[Ernie]

Even if it's just a car from a movie .... The Tartan Prancer.

 

[Andrew Harper]

so I did a search for "chinese knockoff cars". While the cars weren't that ugly, I couldn't stop laughing at the Rolls Royce Spirit of Ecstasy knock off.

It looks like it's made from tin foil.View attachment 261266

Not quite the same thing but amazingly I've seen a few of these. Japanese copy again. I present the Mitsuoka Viewt. Wouldn't be too bad but the front is Mk2 Jaguar and the rear is modern. A really odd match! The wheels just look so tiny!

 

[paracletus]

Car styling preferences varies drastically by country to this day. There is no accounting for taste, unless it is a Ferrari

 

[raiod1478]

I don't think Trabant is ugly. I really found it cute. And Dacia ...
take a look at this one, Dacia 1310 Sport OMG !!!!!!

Dacia did the sport version too? Didn't know that, here the reanult 12 sport version was called Alpine, it came with the cylinder head that renault used for the R5 racing variant, hemispheric combustion chamber and a greater compression ratio among other things. Too bad they made few units of it because for its time it was a great cheap sport car! I mean it was at 5seconds from the lap time of the touring cars raced those days in my country!

 

[juluka]

Olds Vista Cruiser and Chrysler K Car

 

[Hal Burns]

No mention of the AMC Pacer yet???? Here you go:
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Pacer seems to be 50-50 in the like/dislike. They do make a great fishbowl.

 

[Tbear]

I don't think Trabant is ugly. I really found it cute. And Dacia ...
take a look at this one, Dacia 1310 Sport OMG !!!!!!

WOW!!! It might not be a total rip of the 1970 Saab 99 ... but I think it's pretty close.

I owned one of these for a time, and worked on a number of others. As luck would have it, it was exactly as the one in the photo. LOVED THIS CAR. Slant four, the same engine used in the Triumph TR7, except it was installed backwards ... the flywheel and clutch was in the front. A four speed rather than a 5 ... I think. I drove it home from work in a blizzard once. The only other vehicles I saw moving were the snow plows, the Saab just motored along.


NO POINTS COUNT FOR THIS POST!!!!

 

[Tbear]

Ford built the Edsel between 1958 to 1960. They had put a LOT of money into this project ... they even had convertible and station wagon versions, but it was as total flop.

 

[Ole Andreasen]

Nissan Juke

Should have been called Nissan Joke

 

[T_rac3]

I did not know that the Renault / Dacia cooperation went back to the 1960s.

Yes, and back in those days, the first line of cars came with Renault engine. The lucky owners use this engine for 15-20 years without any issues. Our family first car was a Dacia 1100 and my father still has beautiful memories. One of things was, on our dusty roads never gets any dust inside the car, compared with latter car Dacia 1310 in which after 30 min you could write your name in dust on dashboard
We also had a cooperation with Citroen (francophone country ) we made at Craiova Oltcit (Olt the river passes through Craiova and Cit from ...)