Ugliest vehicle ever seen?

[W210 Fan]

Metro 6R4, looked like a shopping trolley due to the cow catcher front spoiler and shopping trolly handle rear spoiler!

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=6r4&sa=N&tab=wi

Only metro by name, loosly based on the metro shape, full race car underneath, don`t care I still want Will Gollops old car, 900kg, 900bhp, you do the math on the power to weight, oh, and only geared to do 120mph, try finding anything to out-accelerate it!!

 

[Swiss Toni]

The 6R4 was never ugly, in fact it was the best looking Metreau by far!

There was one locally with the plate E666EVL.

The V6 was developed by Louts as I recal (sorry, Lotus... ) and formed the basis for the motor used in the XJ220.

Oh, and it could levitate above the ground too.

 

[Mactech]

The V6 in the 6R4 Metro was developed by TWR Jaguarsport into a Group 'C' racing engine for 1989 and 1990. A futher deveelopment of this went on to become the XJ220 road car engine. (I know 'cos I was Chief Development Engineer...)
If you shunt a 6R4 does it get any uglier? or is it just 'metrodental' to its health?

 

[mikeouk]

The Avantime should be lauded and applauded, in all its sheer glorious pointlessness. It's bizarre, frightening, and daft.
Ugly. Tut.



PJ

exactly, so why would anyone want to own one? it is pointless, is it a 3door hatchback or a people carrier or a van??? no matter how quirky or differant it is, its always going to be ugly.

 

[BarryS]

AMC Pacer

I'm sure I have the ugliest production car - it's looks have stuck with me since I first saw it in the USA in the 70's:

The AMC Pacer...I can do no better than quote ftrom some history I found on the web:

Customers did not like the Pacer's lack of power. The sixes were optimized for low emissions and good mileage. The tiny carburetor didn't allow enough flow. The heavy weight of the car, caused by engine, drivetrain, huge glass areas, and built-in safety, added to the problem. Net weight of a 1975 Pacer X was no less than 1500 kilograms. A Mercedes W123 of 1976 weighed more than 100 kg less, but was a big, "heavy" four-door sedan with large trunk

Until a few years ago, the Pacer stuck in the Automotive Freak Show, scoring high in "Worst Car Ever" lists and books with titles like "Lemon!" or "Automotive Atrocities — the Cars We Love to Hate", often accompanied by the AMC Gremlin, so much that one gets almost disappointed when it misses from such a compilation. However, times are a-changing. Today, cars from the 1970s are dated technology, and many are gone for good. Lately, the Pacer is seen differently: as a design icon of its time, and as what it could have been

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Every Citroen ever made

 

[DC_insider]

The V6 in the 6R4 Metro was developed by TWR Jaguarsport into a Group 'C' racing engine for 1989 and 1990. A futher deveelopment of this went on to become the XJ220 road car engine. (I know 'cos I was Chief Development Engineer...)
If you shunt a 6R4 does it get any uglier? or is it just 'metrodental' to its health?

Whilst we're on 6R4 facts:

The first 6R4 was built by Williams Grand Prix Engineering for Austin Rover. Unfortunately it didn't last very long...

Steve Soper has the dubious honour of being the one who pranged the first and, at that stage, only Metro 6R4. Stepping in for regular test driver Tony Pond one day in 1983, Steve took to Chalgrove airfield near Oxford in the car in front of assorted high filers from Williams and Rover. 'There was this big puddle, which I'd been avoiding all day. On one lap with Williams engineer John Piper I hit the puddle and we left the road at high speed, went into a hole and tipped over. Well it tipped over several times, shedding wheels and bits of suspension on the way. I had to go and tell my boss, John Davenport, that I'd just destroyed his one and only £1 million car but he was out to lunch so I washed the wreck in the hope that it would look better. It didn't. JD was very good, He just said "it's only a car." I thought I was going to get the sack.'

 

[Alfie]

Metro 6R4, looked like a shopping trolley due to the cow catcher front spoiler and shopping trolly handle rear spoiler!

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=6r4&sa=N&tab=wi

Only metro by name, loosly based on the metro shape, full race car underneath, don`t care I still want Will Gollops old car, 900kg, 900bhp, you do the math on the power to weight, oh, and only geared to do 120mph, try finding anything to out-accelerate it!!

Most half decent motorcycles will out accelerate it and go on well beyond 120mph! Then again, so would a gartrac escort of the day.

Hideously ugly whichever way you look at it!

As for other 'uglys'; Austin Allegro, Princess, Maestro etc. Morris Ital (Marina), Citroen (all of them), Renault 4, Vauxhall Chevette, AMC Pacer, Renault Avantime, Renault Megane (current shape thing), most new BMW's The Mercedes R class and CLS (followed both today - hideous) Jaguar XJS (How could they get it so wrong after the E type!) Any and ALL Rovers, that awful Morgan thing with the headlights that point inwards - Yuk. Most newer TVR's (except Griffith and Chimaera).......I'm sure there are more.

 

[W210 Fan]

being a little bit of a 6R4 fan the engine was based on the old rover V8 with two cylinders cut off, my sources tell me that Cosworth did the development, if you look at the geometry of the Rover V8 and the subsequent V6 they are very very similar, the engine from the early 80`s 6R4 was then used in the Jaguar XJR10 race car and XJ220 road car, as stated the chassis was developed by Williams GP Eng which is why they have one in their Foyer, The idea of the car was to promote the British Leyland brand and prove that a normally aspirated car could take on a turbo car with increased capacity, (that old adage there is no replacement for sure displacement) only thing was by the time the car was released the group B era was nearly over due to safety issues over marshalling, however as soon as Grp B was banned the cars where instantly turned into legends, some of them went into Rallycross where one gentleman called Will Gollop brought one, sleeved the engine down to 2.3 litres and added two turbos, Genius.

 

[anarchy-inc]

I'The AMC Pacer...

Sorry, but at least the Pacer was slightly futuristic looking, in a 1970's kind of way. The ugliest car was still the Gremlin . . . My sister had one of these and I still can remember pissing myself laughing when she bought it. Her's was just like the one in the photo, but with more rust and was missing the roof mounted spoiler. Sadly, the go faster white stripe, did not help it go any faster.

. . . and let's no forget the "sporty" version;

 

[anarchy-inc]

Has everyone already forgotten this hideous monstrosity?

 

[Cabe]

I'd say pretty much anything from the fast + furious movies, but then they were designed to be hilariously bad.





Right?

 

[BAD300]

All these new Jap hatches with the bubble eyed rear lenses. Some even the front

 

[LESTAYLOR]

this has got to be the ugliest ever for me, its definatly the john prescott of cars

it looks minging enough from the side but just look at the rear,it reminds me of a cross eyed pokemon

I nearly bought one of these But I came to my senses

 

[LESTAYLOR]

Every Citroen ever made

I've owned two Xantias They are quirky, but good cars. Having said this I did trade my Xantia for my MB

 

[James Rothwell]

Nice....

 

[swannymere]

Not a massive fan of the recent Astons or Ferrari's the new £1M Aston is butt-ugly.

 

[Noodle-Pulp]

There's a few of these beauties around London :

 

[RobertoMercini]

Any Hyundai people carrier

 

[Gucci]

There's a few of these beauties around London :

That's a Hummer (and a half)