Nash-Healy: Italian Fail

The 1951 Nash-Healey was a pretty little roadster. Nothing to write home about, but nothing offensive. Then in 1952 they hired Pinin Farina to do a redesign. I guess you can call it unique. It's unfortunate heavy and cross-eyed looks spread like disease throughout the Nash range - by 1955 most models shared the Nash-Healey look.

Updates...

For anyone who regularly watches this site, I've now added a search as well as "reactions" on the bottom of each post. It seems to only let me have 3, so I chose to keep it simple with, "verified fugly" and "404: fugly not found". Feel free to go check crazy.

Bavarian Sushi

Don't know what's up with all the Honda BMWs as of late. Mating an M3 with a Civic appears to suffer more than mating a 5 series with an Acura...

Pimp My Alero

Because a Olds Alero looks exactly like a vintage Cadillac. And because the Olds Alero is such a terrific base for a rat rod. I'm guessing rat rod due to the pinstriping and matte paint. I think it's matte paint... The door and the rest of the car seem to be different textures.

This... Is... SPARTA!

Well, the Spartan. Another neoclassic from the 70's, which strangely used a 280Z as it's base. I suppose it's kinda fitting, as the 280Z had kinda morphed into a luxobarge at that point. Why not make it more luxurious and more barge-y.

Lack of Intergraty

Almost thought it was a 6-Series...

El Craprice

I'm thinking he's looking at replicating the 1959/1960 El Camino, except instead of having a bed it has a a reeeeally long trunk. Kind of like the SSR.

Infiniti QX56

Freshly leaked onto the internet, the 2011 Infiniti QX56 replaces the last QX's blocky, slightly boring look with this new hideously swoopy version. Sadly, in the process it removes unique and interesting details, like the C-pillar rear door handles and the gentle arch to the tops of the rear doors, and replaces them with a pretty generic midsection. Up front the previous slab-like headlights and grille have been replaced with units looking like these ripped from a M45. Not exactly elegant, as the bulging hood above gives the truck a slightly neanderthal look. And those fender vents looks suspiciously like those you can buy in bulk at Wal-Mart.

Hoarded Ram

I think there's more chrome than paint now...

WRX Suicide

This WRX appears to be in some kind of identity crisis, in which it thinks it's a 60's era Lincoln Continental lowrider.

Chrackard

One can only hope this Packard-ified 300 is a one time only deal. And people thought the Packardbakers were ugly...

Mini Cobra

I guess you really can't get much more literal than the title.

ECTO-11

The Ghost Busters, 11 years later (this is a '70 Caddy as opposed to a '59).

I think it's a Suzuki...

Apparently they were going for a deep sea creature look on the outside, and a Shar Pei look on the inside.

Messcort

I'm green with envy. Did I type envy? I meant nausea. Love the Kermit pelt interior.

SV 9 Competizione

"A Corvette, a Ferrari Scaglietti and an Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione walked into a bar..."

Le Crap

Fake Renault 5 Turbo anyone? Not sure what the acronym UFAC stands for, but google seems to think it's "Upholstered Furniture Action Council". Sounds about right.

Audi R"Ain't"

Going to tackle a couple here. Above is a poor yet hideous rendition of the R8 in TT form. Below is a just plain sad attempt to replicate the look on a Mitsubishi Eclipse.

Attack of the Clones: RUF Stormster

The bloated widebody kit on the Cayenne, plus it's maniacally grinning grille, small 911 headlights and green paint reminds me horned "pacman" frog in defense mode. I'm not sure "angry frog" was the look they were going for.

The ZR1 Engine Window

This isn't to say that the ZR1 is ugly. I don't think it is... I little overwrought maybe, but not ugly. But I don't like the lame engine window. I could kind understand it if you could actually see the engine. But I window so you can look at a lame-ass engine cover? Boooo.

Toyota Origin

Again, other hideous JDM Toyota. Don't mean for this to be "rag on Toyota" day, but I'm on a roll and can't stop. Not unlike late model Toyotas. Oh snap!

The Toyota Origin was a special edition model, based off the Toyota Progrès, and meant to recall the Toyopet Crown. An inhouse Japanese neoclassic!

Verossa? More like Grossa...

Just another hideous JDM Toyota, this time with angry fish motif not unlike Mitsuoka.

If there's a WiLL, stay away...

I'm going to cover a couple cars in this post... Toyota sold three cars under the WiLL nameplate in Japan. These cars were seemingly designed to see just how fugly a car could be ans still have the public want to buy it, not unlike the Scion brand in North America. I'm going to cover two of the three, as the third I don't find all that fugly.



First up is the Toyota WiLL Vi, based on the Yaris - but with a bizarro symmetrical but asymmetrical body and ribbed body panels inspired by two of the world's fugliest cars - the Ford Anglia and the Citreon Ami.


The second is the Toyota WiLL Cypha, which is also based on the Yaris but with a circles and angles them.

Not what I would call Progrès

Apparently in Japan, they prefer to make about 15 version of the same basic car. Honda and Toyota especially seem to do this, or at least did in the 90's. Some of these cars are quite fugly, as if they ran out of ways to rehash the same basic car.

The car you see here is the Toyota Progrès, which debuted before the Toyota Altezza / Lexus IS, darling of the ricer set and the origins of many hideous aftermarket taillights. Those taillights, it seems, were inspired by the headlights on the Progrès' gaudy mug.