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For all-time modern ugly, KIA is in a league of their own! Who'd buy some of that crap? Have you no self respect?

They left out the AMC Gremlin. That was the ugliest car ever conceived.

Only 10?

My dear departed Mom bought and drove ugly car #3, the AMC "fishbowl" Pacer, from its first year until she died at age 89 in 2011. It was quite big on the inside, and was over-powered with a V8 engine ...and it truly was UUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGG-LEEEEEEEEEE!

My dear departed Mom bought and drove ugly car #3, the AMC "fishbowl" Pacer, from its first year until she died at age 89 in 2008. It was quite big on the inside, and was over-powered with a V8 engine ...and it truly was UUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGG-LEEEEEEEEEE!

I would NOT classify the Chrysler Cordoba as an ugly car!! Very quiet and smooth ride.

Great performer until the older Trudeau introduced the metric system and fuel prices shot up!!

While the '70s are correctly identified as ugly, there probably was not an era of such ugliness since the fig leaf, The Thing looks cool even today.

"Rich Corinthian leather" :-)

I think that Volvo has serious build potential.

Another millennial (probably) author that just doesn't get it. She looks at these cars completely out of the context of their times, and judges them by her 21st Century biases.

The VW Type 181 Thing was supposed to be ugly. Well, utilitarian, anyway. VW corporate was acutely aware of just how many Beetles were being converted to dune buggies, and they wanted some of that market slot for their new cars. So they created a modern knockoff of their WWII Kubelwagen, going for a quasi-military look, while avoiding too strong a resemblance to the car that was used by Nazi troops.

Somewhere, I have a picture of an AMC Pacer, semi-submerged in a farm pond, looking like a giant turtle coming up for air.

"AMC Gremlin. That was the ugliest car ever conceived."

Oh c'mon. The Pontiac Aztec and the Chevy Avalanche pickup beat it hands down.

The AMC design/production team were severely constrained where funds
were concerned so they became experts at getting something out the door
on budget. Chrysler was a bit more flush and went for a lot of car for the
money concept which is basic Americana. Then they had the bright idea of
running factories flat out all the time for efficiency and financing a huge
inventory of cars that were a sure sell. The banks loved the idea until the
oil crisis killed the "big car sure sell" bit.

They say cars that could only be made in the '70s and the very first one on the list is a civilian knockoff of a car made in the '40s.

They say cars that could only be made in the '70s and the very first one on the list is a civilian knockoff of a car made in the '40s.

All very unique designs. Car designers in the 70s weren't looking over each other's shoulders but creating truly bold looks. Sadly today a Hyundai looks like a Mercedes looks like a Ford looks like a Toyota.

Cordoba four hundred 4 barrel dual exhaust yellow with half white vinyl top and white rich corintihian leather interior and the loudest stereo on the block that blew up while I had the honour of driving at 16.
God rest her soul.

My old man rocked before that one he had us all in the silver Vista Cruiser with cool roof windows that of course the monkeys sat on while going through the lion Safari.
That car was awesome and beautiful.
We have pictures of us all standing in front of it looking like the Osmond family.

True confession ... in 1980 all my money was going to a helicopter flight school and I needed a cheap car so I bought an AMC Pacer at the insurance auction for $400 .... spent a weekend fixing and painting it and then drove it for 80,000 miles until it got rear-ended in another accident and the insurance payout was $2400 ... it was actually a good car and got 26 mpg but I hated to be seen in it.

Both the Bricklin and the THING, are highly collectible.

And no, the Bricklin is not "ugly", although it was poorly constructed, and, of course, was a government funded political abomination of a "job-making" venture.