It doesn’t have to be a real production car, it can also be a concept.
For me, it has to be the 1997 Dodge Copperhead. This ugly chungus just speaks to me and I don’t know why. It is hideous, Pontiac Aztek levels of ugly, but I kinda wish Dodge actually sold it. It wasn’t going to be gutless, sharing much with the Viper, but it also wasn’t going to have the same price of the Viper (Viper at the time was ~$75k, this baby would have been ~$30k). For the price, a little ugly isn’t that big of a deal for a similar powertrain. Surely a facelift kit could help it out some.
Just thought a discussion like this could be fun. What cars are the same for you?
Pontiac Trans Sport (1990)
The dust buster van. Them things used to be EVERYWHERE, I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen one in person. Did they all get cash for klunkered?
Yeah these didn’t fair well like the for Aerostar either.
it has so many cool design features that it’s amazing how shitty it looks when you see one irl.
Friend in high school had one of these. We referred to it as “The Shuttlecraft”
Walk me through this one. Why do you secretly like it? Does it have good features or price? Or does it just speaks to you on an unknowable level?
No, it’s an absolute piece of junk. There’s just something about that intensely 80s design. Looks like a vacuum cleaner. If I needed a minivan and something just like that… But hopefully good quality… Came out, I would absolutely buy that today (new)
I always liked the first gen Nissan Juke. The styling was the right kind of odd for me, and I thought it was kinda cool that you could get it with a maunal on the front wheel drive models. They did the split headlight thing better than the Pontiac Aztek imo. (tho that car did have a minifridge in it, which the Juke did not lmao). Idk if they were any good to own long term tho. Apparently there are 3 Juke-R’s out there in the wild somewhere, where Nissan crammed the GT-R engine into it lmao
Jukes are in general absolute dogshit in terms of reliability, one of the worst cars in the last 20 years IMO.
I always liked the AMC Gremlin, my friend had one in high school and it was fun-ugly.
Sincerely wishing the AMC badge would make a comeback. Bring back the Levi’s edition Gremlin!
Love those little guys. Also love that it was called a gremlin. I want a motorcycle called a goblin now and an SUV called a troll.
I like the box/toaster cars (Kia Soul, Honda Element, etc.). Vertical trunk space is underrated. What’s the point of a deep trunk when the hatch door slants so low.
I drove a Kia Soul for a number of years. I’m 6’2 and I was always impressed how comfortable I was in it. I once took three coworkers to lunch, one of whom was 6’7", and while I won’t claim everyone had room to spare, it was still a way better experience than much larger cars I’ve driven. They made fun of me for driving a hamster mobile, but it was always the first choice for lunch because I could park that thing anywhere.
I bought a 2012 Kia Soul brand new off the lot in 2012. I loved that weird little car, and 100% owned the hamster memes and LMFAO songs. Ended up selling my Soul for a minivan two years later though (lel).
Fast forward to 2022, I flew to Dallas for a business trip and was ecstatic to find out that my rental was a 2021 Kia Soul. It was a good business trip.
I’m amazed Element, Cube, and the like haven’t made a comeback as EV models. The boxy design makes them perfect for a floorboard of batteries.
I heard Honda is bringing back the Element as an EV in the next few years. Definitely something I’d be interested if it’s priced right.
The Kalashnikov CV-1. I would have bought one of those in a heartbeat if it hadn’t been a concept car.
Kinda reminds me of the cars from that 90s Romeo and Juliet movie:
That’s not objectively ugly at all, it’s very nice.
I love the Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard.
First off, amazing name, who the fuck named this? Secondly, the design is amazing. So so compact. It looks stupidly goofy and I love it. Just like someone took the design of a regular pickup truck, opened it in blender and scaled one axis. Marvellous. I also have no idea what the use case of it would be since its small which makes it even better ❤️
I’ve never even heard of the Dodge Copperhead, but I’m with you.
It is hideous, Pontiac Aztek levels of ugly
It’s definitely something of a “butter face” for sure.
Much better! 😆
I do think the Aztek is ugly as sin but I did think they looked kind of cool/cyberpunk.
Isuzu vehicross. It’s got stretched proportions in all the wrong places, and yet, I dig the weirdness.
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never bought one but I always liked the Plymouth pt cruiser’s look.
also Chevy HHR got a lot of hate but I thought it was neato.
Edit… well I meant the SSR from Chevy, but misremembered as the pt cruiser wannabe HHR, my bad
Look, fuck Nazis and Elon but I repeat myself. And there is a lot wrong with the vehicle overall. But I really don’t hate the cybertruck’s aesthetic.
It’s ok to be wrong sometimes
I’m gonna get so much hate for this but it’s the answer sooo here goes…
Cyber truck. I never once said it looks good. But it’s got style I like. But I like the back to the future/ bladerunner style of it. I’ve always loved the DeLorean and that’s almost entirely the same thing.
And it makes me sick sometimes that I don’t hate it as much as I should because of them. And I live somewhere where I see a lot of them causally around just like anything other vehicles in spite of how bad they are productionally, if that’s even a word
Edited. Not sure why I felt like I needed to change what I wrote, probably the weed
The rear end is just so fucking ugly and… wrong.
