Pontiac Trans Sport (1990)

I always liked the AMC Gremlin, my friend had one in high school and it was fun-ugly.

Isuzu vehicross. It's got stretched proportions in all the wrong places, and yet, I dig the weirdness.

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 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 ❤️

Dodge Caliber

Some folks think the Subaru Brat is ugly but I kinda dig it

Daihatsu Midget II.

A Japanese kei-truck. It's ugly but oh-so-functional. I like function over form.

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.

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.

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.

Subaru XT (Alcyone or Vortex in some markets).

I owned one of these. The aerodynamics were great for a 1980s car. It even had purely mechanical flush door handles, which modern car designers could learn from.

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

The Plymouth Prowler was stupid, fugly, but kinda awesome.

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

I see a sidewinder in the background too. That was always my favorite of their concepts in that era.

I think the Lamborghini LM002 might be the bad looking darling of my childhood.

Or the Bizzarini BZ-2001 concept. I had a poster on my wall.

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

Objectively ugly is almost an oxymoron, but, the multipla comes as close as it gets by violating damn near every design principle I ever learned lol.

And I like it because it defies conventional design paradigms in favor of practicality and ended up being iconic in its own way. If they were to be available here in the states, as a hybrid or electric, and didn't engage in the fuckery with transmitting everything you do, I'd actually prefer one over many prettier options.