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BMW Isetta, the car that saved BMW. It is a weird little car with only one door that opens to the front. As I child, I actually had the great fortune of sitting in one of those for a few minutes. I think the design is from Italy and BMW licensed it to quickly be able to produce a cheap car after WW2.
Type 2 VW Jetta. Boxy, angular, but so quintessentially Germanic in design. Much like their language, it is like an engineered concrete retaining block of undeniably overwhelming presence dropped onto your head from a great height. And I love it. Especially the 1995/1996 Carat, which came with all the bells and whistles including AC and power windows.
I like so many of the ugly and oddball cars. I'm not talking like "ugly sedan" stuff, like anything that's just strange, odd or one-off, or kooky models, or things that tanked or nearly tanked a company. Big flops and divisive designs. I love the look of so many vehicles like that. I also realize why many of them don't work out so my enjoyment of bad taste is at least a cognizant thing.
Daihatsu Midget II.
A Japanese kei-truck. It's ugly but oh-so-functional. I like function over form.
I love that!
That is definitely small... it has only got one seat! Functional, but with only one seat I would question its practicality.
Practical depends on who you are, right? :)
Imagine you work as a saké distributor in Tokyo, living out of a little shop right on the streetfront with your home as an apartment above.
Your morning is spent shuttling bottles between your shop and little mom-and-pop restaurants in the surrounding neighbourhoods.
You have to carry heavy loads while navigating narrow streets full of pedestrians and bicycles, and park for 10 minutes at a time in places where there is nowhere proper to park - all while not blocking the street.
When you get home in the afternoon the only place you can put your truck is the alleyway between your shop and the neighbour Ryousuke's place, who runs the florist next door. The alleyway is only 6 feet wide, but that's no problem because your truck is only 4-foot-three.
Of course, back in the '60s you used to do all this with a little Honda Super-Cub motorbike! You laugh to yourself remembering how comically high you stacked those crates of bottles lashed together with rope on your pannier rack. But you're not as young as you used to be, and after that accident in '98 your wife made you swear never to get on a bike again. You don't argue with your wife, because she's always right.
Anyway - just as well you have your trusty Daihatsu Midget II, the most practical truck you could imagine.
It's practical for us hermits, lol
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 ❤️
It's like a rodeo front with a jeep back. Lol I love it.
The Plymouth Prowler was stupid, fugly, but kinda awesome.
Some folks think the Subaru Brat is ugly but I kinda dig it
I grew up with a Brat! It was beat to hell and we took it everywhere. We went on tank trails and through shallow rivers and places we had no right being. I loved that thing so much. Would love to get one and fix it up.
350Z Roadster. People say it looks like a clown shoe, but I think it's beautiful:
It's shaped like a bar of used soap. But they are fun cars!
Pontiac Trans Sport (1990)
Condolences
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?
I always liked the AMC Gremlin, my friend had one in high school and it was fun-ugly.
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.
Isuzu vehicross. It's got stretched proportions in all the wrong places, and yet, I dig the weirdness.
It looks so bouncy lol, I love it.
I remember when these things came out! Man, that was a weird moment... The hilarious part is that it's literally just a Rodeo under the skin; the mechanicals are identical.
Range Rover Evoque Convertible. It was so pointless but I still found it fun. Almost got one used but there was another car I wanted for the same price and I couldn’t justify it.
The Kalashnikov CV-1. I would have bought one of those in a heartbeat if it hadn't been a concept car.
i actually really like the look of the original ford ka with the plasnic bumpers. especially the cabriolet version:
the fiat multipla is of course the classic contender:
and then there's the REVAi, better known as the G-Wiz:
it looks like a real-life choro-Q car!
and a personal favourite, which i don't think is even a bit ugly, it's just a marvel of design: the europe-only version of the 2006 honda civic.
literally no bad angles.
I like shooting brakes myself. I've been tempted to get the mod hatch for my C7 Corvette a few times. My son threatens to murder me in my sleep if I do.
Dodge Caliber
The looks aren't as bad as the fact that it's a dodge.
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.