A good-looking car is, naturally, subjective. However, many people agree that some cars just look downright ugly. From angular monstrosities to ill-conceived experiments, these ten cars are aesthetically awful misadventures that their manufacturers need to be ashamed of.
10. Chevrolet SSR
The Chevrolet SSR is a bulbous, bubbly mess. Unlike the genuinely awesome El Camino line of souped-up car/truck hybrids, the SSR is a definitively nasty-looking piece of work. It also failed to be any of the things it acted like: it was too small and awkward to be an effective pick-up truck, too sluggish to be a sports car, and too ugly to be a fashionable piece of conspicuous consumption.
9. PT Cruiser
The PT Cruiser, known as the PT Loser by some particularly mean-spirited (and correct) aficionados, is made ugly by how many little things it does wrong. Its boxy body and goofy front end don’t immediately stand out as noteworthy design flaws, so the ugliness creeps up on you while you’re looking at it.
8. Citicar Electric Car
One of the first commercially available electric cars was the Citicar Electric Car, produced in 1974. This comically awful-looking vehicle would make some onlookers think Citicar wanted the design to fail, as that’s the only explanation for the bulbous headlights, absurd front slope, and boxy body design.
7. Nissan S-Cargo
The Nissan Snail-mobile, er, S-Cargo, is a really bad pun given physical form as a tormented vehicle that needed to be put out of its misery. Its bizarrely high roof and dome-like design made it as unwieldy on the road as it was to look at, leading to a short production life of only two years and only 8,000 units produced.
6. Pontiac Aztek
The Aztek looks like a low-polygon joke car from a bad 2001 video game. It’s such a hilarious-looking vehicle that it was even used as a punchline in Breaking Bad, where Walter White drives the terminally uncool vehicle despite his growing reputation as a dangerous criminal kingpin.
5. Nissan Juke
Car people are really good at mean nicknames. Take, for instance, the Nissan Joke. It’s a squat, weird-looking car with an “amphibious” design. For some reason no one can understand, the turn signals are on the hood of the car, lending it a truly alien vibe.
4. Fiat Multipla
Just look at this thing. It’s so hideous that it’s hard to even describe it to people. Why does it have a bifurcated cab? Why does it have four bug-eyed headlamps? And why did Fiat, a carmaker known for their luxurious and elegant designs, make this monstrosity? Kill it with fire!
3. BMW Isetta
BMW usually makes attractive cars with exemplary performance. The Isetta, however, failed to hit either of those marks. Weirdly enough, the awkward little three-wheeler with a front-mounted door was a huge hit in Germany in the 50s thanks to its affordable price tag.
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2. Reliant Robin
The three-wheeled Reliant Robin was the subject of a downright hilarious (if faked) Top Gear bit in which the host couldn’t help from rolling the thing over. While the version featured in the episode had been modified to roll more easily, they really were prone to rollovers—and they were extremely ugly while doing it.
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1. Cybertruck
Tesla makes some pretty cool cars. The Model 3, in particular, is a reasonably-priced electric sedan that helped popularize all-electric vehicles. The Cybertruck, by contrast, is an abysmally unattractive car that somehow makes the Aztek look stylish. When you see one of these eyesores in public, it’s all you can do to keep from quite literally pointing and laughing. You’re going to get more street cred by pulling up to the function on a skateboard than in a Cybertruck.
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