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a selection of nominations etc... | Feedback - 5 |
| Car Nominated | Nominated By |
Your Comments | I Say |
| none | BITWAYS GLOBAL SOURCING GMBH |
Urgent inquiry for Paper bags, Dear Sirs, We are an international trading company, mainly serving the European industry. The Bitways Group purchases globally on own account and then resells the products to various clients. Our aim is to source globally and to offer our clients the best prices worldwide. From one of our own or rented databases we have retrieved your address as potential supplier of the product(s) we would like to purchase this time. If you can promptly give us your very best quote you might be chosen as the supplier we have been looking for as early as next week. <snip specifications for paper bags> |
hehe - me thinks you need to have a word with the person that you rent your database from. |
| none | Harmannus | This is not a nomination for an ugly car (because the BX is already in the list) I just have the feeling that the BX on your site is to nice. A real ugly BX is white, has a 1.4 (60HP) Engine, a huge spoiler and preferably is parked for a short period (so the front is still high and the back already low). My old BX has it all. Maybe it is nice to tell I bought it for 30 English Pounds, which makes it not only the ugliest car in the world, but also the cheapest one. Here is a photo of "the ugliest car in the world". Feel free to use it! |
Thanks
for the pic - it certainly is ugly, but I wouldn't have paid as
much as 30 Pounds for it. |
| Datsun 120y | Rats & Dom | The above is in my professional opinion, well minging. The Marina Coupe is also a noteworthy dog of a motor. The allegro estate is an ideal "Dwarf Hearse" | So you're a professional what? The 120y would be a worthy addition to the site. |
| Multipla (again) | Lorr | Very amusing on a dull dreich Sunday afternoon but surely an update is required. The poor Fiat Multipla is quite nice to drive but as Motoring corespondent for Tay AM, it was me who had to wear the paper bag whilst test driving. | see part 4 |
| Lorr | Just read part 4 and yes I am dumb enough to nominate a car that has already been included before. That's women motorists for you. | no comment. | |
| Talbot Tagora | Emanuele | Brick-like styling and a stone-age 2.2 liters engine. Materials on the inside made you feel as if Barbie had lent you her pink cabriolet. I think that a few more than six units were sold. Not bad for a car which was designed to put Talbot back on the run | I would like to add the Tagora to the site - but I desperately need a photo. |
| Talbot Tagora | Adam Galliford | As if to illustrate the contempt that the French have for the rest of the world,they inflict the Tagora on us.Styled during a blackout caused by the usual industrial unrest with only the aid of a set square it had the normal Talbot qualities of clattering engines and wafer thin bodywork which has thankfully resulted in very few survivors. Another rain forest of paperbags bites the dust!!. | see above. |
| Citroen XM | Paul Knibbs | If the BX deserves to be on this site, the XM deserves to be here ten times over, given its status as possibly the ugliest car Citroen ever produced. This is a car which makes the Ford Scorpio look like a design classic, and I think it is a national scandal it isn't here! | I donn't think I've got any room left for any more Citroens. |
| none | ThedaBara | Thanks for the great web page.....I haven't laughed like that in a long long time!!!!!!!! The grand finale for me was the "Bubble Car", that brought the tears down my face from laughing so hard!!! | Err thanks - glad you're so easily amused! |
| none | David Sattler | Stumbled across your site by accident -- which is apparently how most of the vehicles you show were designed -- and wasted lots of time having lots of fun. Great work. I always thought the old Saab 3-cylinder cars (the bulbous ones) were pretty sorry sights. Can't remember the names of them off hand. The old VW fastback was pretty ugly, too. I don't know what they were called in the U.K. | Thanks David, one of those old Saabs is featured on this site - but I need a better photo of one. |
| new Subaru Impreza | Andy Connolly | The new Impreza takes all the nice bits from the current one, and throws them right out of the window! the lights are obviously nicked from the Toyota Corolla, and are thus very very ugly. Apparently it will come with limo black windows as standard across the range, no need for those paper bags! | Indeed! I see that you can already buy replacement headlamp kits for the new Impreza. |
| Talbot Simca Rancho | John | It couldn't claw its way out of a puddle It was made of plastic It was gutless, French and less use than fleas are to someone with 3rd degree sunburn. | certainly was rubbish. |
| Talbot Simca Rancho | Dan White | Had a look around the site, and didn't spot the ever lovely Matra Rancho - It looks like a cross betwen a Land Rover Discovery (Don't ask me how, I can only assume Talbot tinkered with time travel for a bit) and a shoe box full of twigs and dog dirt. Not only was it offensively ugly, the 'rugged look' was also a complete pretense as it was front-wheel-drive and hideously underpowered (1.5 litre I think) engine. Anyway - A sure fire minger... | thanks Dan - maybe it will be added in the near future. |
| Pontiac Aztek | Paul Peterson | I'm not sure if you have these in Britain, but this has to be the ugliest car in America. It's the Pontiac Aztec. http://www.pontiac.com/aztek/index.html | This car has been nominated dozens of times by our American cousins, however as far as I know the Aztek has not made an appearance in Britain. |
| 1964 Hillman Super Minx | Blaine Hellman | I owned one of these in the '70's, and it turned heads (and stomachs) everywhere I went. (I never figured out what made it "Super".) I don't know whatever became of it, but it probably went to recycling and came back as a few dozen bedpans. Unfortunately (fortunately?), I don't have a picture of this monstrosity. | Thanks Blaine |
| none | Stuart Allison | Great Web Site.... .... just a bit slow to access... :( I've linked to your site from mine since I hate my Renault Laguna estate (not just the looks, but everything else as well). Thanks for the good humour and "don't care" attitude!. | Thanks - note the site has changed hosts since this email (Dec 00) so hopefully these days it's a bit quicker. |
| none | Graham | I was just about to send you an abusive email when I couldn't stop laughing. Yes, I am a Citroen Owner and lust over the most Bizzarre French cars possible. It is true in what you say about these motors, and thats why some of us like them. Ford, Vauxhall, VW etc. need a good shafting for being boring! Lighten up world, Fiat has! (Multipla) | glad you decided against the abuse - sadly some people don't seem to have a sense of humour. Tough for them eh? |
| Daihatsu HiJet MPV | nheys | Thank the lord that some has already nominated the Bond Bug .... after all us owners have our reputations to consider you know! .... actually if you do decide to list the Bug it might lend your site more credibility than intended:-))) Now then .... what about those Daihatsu HiJet MPV things then? all the styling panache (not to mention aerodynamics) of a brick and totally gut less as well! however they do seat 6 in total misery .... so I reckon that that might be the highest bag count per vehicle - 6 people times 5 bags = 30 bags? is it a record Norris? So I claim the saddest car owner of the month award please .... I own both of these! .... and a Clan Crusader as well (but I'll bet you can't even find a photo of that one). great site .... keep up the good work .... no doubt it has already been selected for the "waste of band width" awards then? :-) | Yep, we've been recommended in many publications as a good waste of time and bandwidth! |
| Trabant 601 | Edgar Mole-Sears | I swapped one of these for a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red in Dresden. The Easat German registration document decared it to be a "Trabant 601 Limousine"... The 600 was imported here for a short time... does this count? | I suppose if it was officially imported then it does qualify for inclusion. |
| Lea Francis | Barrie Robinson | I notice that few magazines will come out openly and say "ugly" they just say "it grows on you" or someting equally silly. My vote is for the 1949 (?) Lea Francis L21 sports car ( I think it was L21 ??) It is awful ! | OK I'll look out for a pic. |
| none | Nancy Wear | Having found by happy chance your uglycars of Britain website, combining my favorite topics: Britain and cars, I read them all, shocked -- nay, stunned -- to find that I had owned not one, but two, of the featured vehicles. In 1960 I owned what we called a "bug-eyed Sprite." It was white, with a matching roll bar made of cast iron pipe (painted to match, though). It came (used; I paid about $600 for it) with a removable fibreglas top, which we used to take off (one person could do it, it was so light) and left it on the front lawn in Providence, Rhode Island, in nice weather. It had side-curtains, which I rarely put on, so it collected a lot of rain and snow. It had no carpets, just a bare metal floor, but it finally got so full of water, that drilled holes in the floor to drain the water out. The second one in time was the Daimler SP250 (I didn't recall the Dart name, but that's sure a picture of the car we had) which my first husband bought in late 1963. It had perfectly bald tires, all the better to drive in the snow and ice of a New England winter. Through your website, I have finally got my 15 minutes of fame. You folks in Britain do excellent websites; I only wish you still actually made cars. My first was an MG TD, then the Goliath (nominated separately for your website), the bug-eyed Sprite, a Sprite Mark II, an MGB (at the same time as the SP250), MG 1100 (with Alec Issigonis's water/oil suspension) etc. We have not bought an American car in my family since 1951, when my father bought a Morris MInor, and never looked back. He then had a Riley 2 1/2 liter, an Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire, and so on. Now I have to look at the Japanese and Germans for stuff that looks reasonably good, and has some eclat. At least Daimler-Benz is dumping Chrysler. Regards, Nancy Wear (Miami, Florida) | Thanks Nancy. You can still buy true British cars, if you want a TVR, Morgan or a number of models from other specialist (usually sports) car manufacturers. |
| none | Chris | I do believe that the 'Ford Focd Us' reviewer meant 'pants' when he said arse curtains. Jolly spiffing site old bean. pip pip. | Thanks for filling me in on that one. |
| Citroen BX | Roger Knight. | Your description of the Citroen BX is rather unjust I feel, as an Owner of one of these superb cars I do feel that the BX has faired quite well on your site. Remember that for every paper bag on your review of the BX there are thousands of satisfied owners throughout Europe, more than the hits on your site! | I really, really pity you. |
| Honda Insight | Bill | A truly sorry-looking entry in the hybrid class. Perhaps the appearance is meant to distract from the abysmal performance and lack of interior space. | I agree - the Insight is featured on page 5. |