Would you buy a butt ugly car?

Like the Tourneo and it’s practicalities, kind of considering one when my current cars expires. That said, it passed it’s MOT today so it has a stay of execution.

All modern fords look like this:

or this

Yes, the ugly car is outside being all French and incredibly practical. The missus didn’t like it to begin with, I did. Now though I want something with more “Powerrrrrrr” as it’s a bit of a slug.

You can’t see it when driving, so just enjoy looking at everyone else’s pretty cars?

Copper Pulse

– that’s a euphomism for diahohreha diorhea dhiaorear the shits right there 😆

I’ve just bought a Skoda Octavia VRS.
It does look pretty dull but it’s a lovely drive.
First time I’ve really bought a car where I was a bit nonplussed about the looks.

it looks ok to me

but then ive got a zafira

i must admit getting changed under the tailgate is an added bonus id never considered before i had on-, then im in a car park wanting to disrobe after a muddy ride in the rain, and its extra awesome

my mate insists on driving us to races in his audi, its a ballache mounting teh bikes on the rack, getting the seats covered in sheets etc etc

zafira- slide back the seats, chuck in the bikes and away we go!

Those Ssangyongs… …did the designer just start with an existing silhouette and add random bits?

Multiplas are boggin’ as well.

I like that Tourneo actually, looks good for what it is.

Now this, this is ugly:

Puts me in mind of this guy:

Don’t care what it’s kitted out with, it’s an abomination. How I’ve managed to see more of these kicking about than Avantimes I’ll never know…

You think you hate it now… wait till you drive it!

Thing is OP a Tourneo isn’t really a car, it’s a Van adapted to be a really big car. Surely it’s what you buy when a Galaxy is too small and your vehicular needs are way more functional than aesthetic…

Buy a tool to do a job, who cares what it looks like 💡
Met blue one running around town looks v-good 🙂
Fellow ex Touran owner(still the best car I’ve owned)

pontiac aztec.

Looks practical more than ugly. The colour warmly reminds me of cough syrup my mum used to give me. I bought a CRV as a second practical car, it’s quite ugly but very practical.

Mrs_oab is putting foot down, no Tourneo Connect or VW Maxi Life or Doblo on the grounds of being ugly. 🙁

Equivalent full size people carriers are just silly money newer than we have.

So, Verso and Zafira Tourer are being looked at 🙁

hire one for a weekend.

mrs TR was the same till she actually got one and realised how practical they were.

Skoda ugly? coming from someone who had a FRONTERA! 😆

Should be called an Affrontera

I don’t think I could live with one of these.

I bought a FUGLY car. TBH it was great

although my third Subaru is a very capable car I utterly miss the Xsara Picasso. Some people complain its uncomfy on long drives (err I drove it to Germany and back), utterly practical, cheap as chips (I paid £1600 for a 07!) and I never had breakdown cover on it. I know I didn’t need it.

meh , you paid good money for your skoda …… i got the frontera in a trade for a **** non runner golf.

free cars are best regardless of how ugly – note i also said all vauxhalls ….i was aware it was ugly – lets face it the defenders no looker either.

Nothing ugly about a Frontera. Compare it to any other 4×4 suv from it’s time.

I have one of these beauties:

But with added scrapes down both sides. I love it – best car I’ve ever owned. I drove a fairly new Audi A4 on holiday and I would genuinely rather have the Berlingo. The A4 felt really cramped in comparison.

Re the OP I think it looks quite nice for a practical car.

Yup, I bought a Kia Soul, for running costs, service costs and warranty. It’s ugly, it’s average and it’s acceptable…. but I am happy with my decision 🙂

GF is on her second C3 Picasso, i hate it. Babba to drive (like being in a high chair with a glass bubble on your head), but compact, very practical & a surprisingly capacious rear end, much like the person that drives it.

No. Not again. I’ve got one, it makes me wince every time I see it. 20 months left on the lease.

I didn’t think I’d care that much, turns out I do (even though I pretend I don’t).

@Hora – you took that too far.

GF is on her second C3 Picasso

Some rate those but I test drove one and hated it – the Roomster I then tried felt so much better that I was sold – plus exactly what I wanted. Decided not buying it for how it looked was a bit silly though I think they look a lot better than many other similar (shortish with good space) cars.

Hopefully her next one will be a Roomster Black Edition.

Although i can’t say much as i’m going from a Golf GTD to a T5.

How did Nemesis get into this thread.

Send for Torquemada!

And Deaths Head.

any Mini that’s not a normal Mini fits the bill.

Its like they don’t want to sell anymore of them but people keep buying them any way.

Mini Production Guy: We can’t keep up with demand we need to do something to slow down sales, can you make the car less attractive

Designer: How about this

Production Guy: Nope not ugly enough

Designer: Okay, this then

Production Guy: Top marks for effort, that really does look ridiculous but people are still buying them.

Designer: Okay, I really went to town on this one, I took the original mini and just hit enlarge on the photocopier then drew the ugliest grill I could think of.

Production guy: Uggh, I just swallowed a little bit of sick. I mean even calling it a Mini, that just daft no one will buy that. Oh wait, fat mothers absolutely love them.

Designer: Right I drew this one night after going a bit mad on the Special K

Ha ha, thats a joke right, surely no one would buy that!

I did a little s*x wee when I saw that Cortina Lotus

I did a little s*x wee when I saw that Cortina Lotus

good to know its not just me that thinks that cortina has no place in an ugly car thread 😉

richmtb – nice

In answer to the original question, no. Will not buy a butt ugly car at the moment, can’t face thinking about a people carrier or anything similar. Vans are cool, and I’d like one as my next car

(I should highlight that I ran a Vauxhall Signum for the best part of a year and that probably counts. It was the 3 litre V6 diesel one in the best spec though)

Most of these cars all look the same to me. Modern safety-blobs.

Yep, I bought one of these.

There are uglier cars (I think) but it’s obviously that it’s had the wrong front hacked onto the body, the back’s not much better.

But it drives well, it’s well made and it was stupid cheap for what it is / does.

I still can’t get over that Kia (R)Odious, there are no good angles to view it unless it’s a moonless night. It even out-uglies a Multipla.

And Jaguars of late too…they seem clumsily styled and devoid of the grace of Jags of old, which is odd considering they’re styled by the same bloke to does Aston Martins. Maybe he’s not very good at doing more than two doors? I’ve seen renderings of the new 4 door Aston and it’s awful, so I reckon that’s it.

I remember Peugeots used to look svelte and taut when Pinninfarina did them, now they look bloated and dumpy…And Audis, once upon a time they were nicely understated and the profile did all the talking (original A4 and A8), but something went wrong along the way and they’ve become fussy. The obsession with ridiculously bright bluish lights hasn’t helped either.

Ugly?

Cheap as chips. Revs to 10k. Goes like it is late for the afterlife.

Really damn ugly, and also made of tin foil and milk bottles.

Another ugly car. Exceptable fro mthe front but from behind…..