Actually, the most embarrassing car I've seen recently (believe it or not) was a Bentley!

Really wasn't the car's fault, though.

A month or so ago i was rolling out of Biloxi, Mississippi on I-110 after a very successful visit to the Hard Rock Casino.
(Definition - successful visit: My sweetie won a lot, I ate a lot!)

Anyway, I cruised up on a fairly noticeable and unique set of taillights over in the slow lane. Being curious, I tried to get a little closer.
Then i spotted the personalized tag!

MYBNTLY

I immediately lost any interest in this person and his/her freakin' automobile!

Might be a news flash, folks...(particularly on this forum) but you can't BUY class!
But you can damn sure blow any hopes of it by simply not having a clue.

 

I can't stop laughing
Seriously though I shouldn't
Still, it could be worse like his ride being pushed due to running out of fuel

 

Honda CR-V...

 

Saw this today and was reminded of this thread:

Business Week

50 Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09...ears/index.htm

(I agree with all of them except maybe the El Camino, it was different but IMO not entirely in a bad way...)

 

In High school I had a friend who drove a 3 on the tree Gremlin. Bad Ju Ju.

 

I won a Yugo from a radio station back in 1990. I'm guessing the station bought it as a cheap runabout - then realised it was so horrible that they decided to give it away.

I fairly quickly swapped it for my first Jag(s) - a running '56 Mk I (and a complete, almost running 58 for parts). Aside from a couple of Audi I've been driving Jags ever since (78 XJ6, 81 XJS, 97 XK8, 07 XK and 08 XKR)

 

That sounds like a deal, why did the ex Jag owner want the Yugo?

 

I think he thought he was getting the better end of the deal and gave it to his wife (it only had about 200km on the clock). Turns out that when I went back a week later to tow the non-running '58 - his wife had hated the Yugo and they'd already swapped it for somethign else

 

i'd have to say kia soul

 

Yes that and those Scion Xb/Honda Element things. Talk about retarded looking boxes on wheels.

 

Some years ago, my daily driver was a 1990 BMW 735, (which I really liked!) It was in the garage getting a paint job and in the interim, I had a loan of my sisters' Hyundai Getz. While out traversing some of the wonderful back roads we have here in Ireland, I came up behind a tractor and trailer, doing the customary 15 mph. I was luck enough to meet him on one of the few straight stretches in existence and seeing a clear road ahead, I "floored" it. Of course I had become accustomed to the combination of 3.5 litres and automatic kick down, which with the Getz, was an alien concept! I moved out and proceeded to catch up with the tractor and trailer, which seemed to grow and lengthen in tandem with my efforts. I drew alongside the trailers rear wheels.......willing the Getz on.....I dropped a gear......and another......eventually getting as far as the tractors rear wheels........and metaphysically pushed and willed the nasty, innefective little motor on........until a car appeared on the horizon, coming my way. It was do or die.....down another gear, ignoring the screams for mercy from under the bonnet and I managed to get in front of the tractor and out of harms way. A fine enough car for doing the shopping and tootling about town, but if you like to DRIVE, forget it. And unlike some small, somewhat ancient cars that I have owned in the past, it had no soul, no character, no smile factor, unlike my 97 x300 mmmmmm

 

1985 Hyundai Pony. Rusted qps, rusted out driver and pass floor, HVAC smelling like caramelized coolent, and a serious case of backfire. Being 16, at $300, this was one embarrassing and awesome first car.

 

You can be serious and you have seriously bad taste

 

Any Daewoo

 

Volvos. I can't even take it as a passenger,...

 

Anybody else ever owned a '60s Commer van (British Rootes/Chrysler vehicle)? Seriously ugly.
The front track is narrower than the rear, which not only makes it look very odd, but makes it handle badly too. The roof extends over the windows (on both sides and front and back) It looks like a sow bug wearing a hat over its entire body, only worse. Used as a camper van or an ambulance in England. I don't have any pictures of the one I owned (which had been an ambulance), but I pulled this one off the internet. It does NOT do the ugliness justice though. On the other hand I only paid 60 pounds for it... and it held 13 people, which was important to me at the time.

Keith

 

I had it's brother the bedford CA


mine wasn't as pretty as this one it was a mixture of green and yellow, the sliding doors used to fall off now and again but it was cheap and lot's of fun.

 

I remember that Bedford CA. Apart from being the most unreliable van in history it seems, in hot weather drivers used to have both doors at the front held back for a bit of cool (the temp. variety!). Naturally, a bit of heavy braking and "slam-slam" as both doors promptly shut themselves.
If you want a car that's both ugly. unreliable and badly made with zero build quality, try the russian Moskvitch from the 1970s. We learned never to get in conversation with a Moskvitch owner, as within about 30 seconds he would be trying to sell it to you.
Leedsman.

 

I think the Bedford is actually uglier than the Commer! Great picture! I drove around with the sliding doors open on my Commer for a while because the gas tank leaked and smelled up the interior. I got a used gas tank from a junk yard ASAP, but until I did I drove around with the doors open. It was a terrible car in the winter, although it had pretty effective heaters... but it had sooo much heater hose that it was almost always leaking somewhere. It got cold enough in East Anglia winters that the engine would run cool even when it was very low on coolant... the only way we could tell we were low was when the heater quit working, which was often. And my Commer developed a burned exhaust valve and kept blowing the muffler off. Fortunately the ground clearance is so high you can just scoot under it and bolt the muffler back on. In fact I changed the clutch throw-out bearing on the side of the road once without jacking the car up. It was good that I didn't have to jack the car up because the frame would bend if you tried to use the built-in jack points.... What a car!
I always thought the later Moskvitches looked a lot like the 70's Fiats (124s). Was it a Fiat built under license in Russia? I thought there was a different name for the Fiats under license there. FSO in Poland, SEAT in Spain, Yugo in Yugoslavia... I think it was the Lada in Russia. Never thought they were ugly, but then I liked a lot of the cars on 50-ugliest-car list so my judgment is questionable in that regard.
Keith

 

Dad had a Commer back in the 60s, I had a deckchair in the back. The next door neigbour had a camper version.

In the late 80s I had an ex post office Sherpa, I hand brush painted it with red smoothrite and drove it over to here.

Used to love touring around with both front sliding doors open.

I then lent it to a bloke in the UK, he was driving in central Manchester one day, and the flywheel came off.

I believe that the van is now being used as a storage shed at a backstreet garage somewhere in the NW. (this reminds me to see if it is still there, might be worth dropping a 2 1/4 LR diesel in).