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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Porsche Panamera

Yes, I'm talking down a Porsche. But I hoped that seeing a Panamera in person would change my opinion of how ungainly it looks. And although it looks better, sadly it's still ungainly in my eyes.

My beefs mainly centre around it's hindquarters although I do think it looks a bit too chunky up front for a Porsche). Starting with the side view, I really don't like how the roofline ends. I understand and respect the fact they want real people to fit inside, but you think it could have been achieve a bit more elegantly. Which could have been acheived changing the awkward appearance of the rear door windows - their bottom edge curves up in the rear portion, which exaggerates it's huge ass and the odd roofline. Plus the extra pillars in the rear windows muddy up the lines - I suppose the windows wouldn't go down much without them, but they don't look nice.


And then all the way out back you get about 5 feet of bumper with extremely high set tail lights. And the finicky detailing between them, with the random chrome strip and all the text. Had the taillights been set with their top edges in line with the chrome bar, I'd look so much better.

I also think it's look better with just "PORSCHE" or "Panamera S/Turbo" script on the rear. With both there it looks like a novel. I say bring back the old school full width tails with the "PORSCHE" text branded within, and then have the model name above.

Optical Illusion Fug


Besides the whole fact that having a giant white tiger airbrushed on your WRX is a bit gaudy, the left eye (to us - it's the cat's right) is kinda trippy. It looks like someone started to paint an eye, and didn't like it (or realized it was too far off centre) and changed it into a stripe.

*UPDATE: I just realized I missed a couple pics that show that this Subbie is more than just fugly paint. Just look at that Pepto interior.


Aston Miata

You know, this might actually be less lame that the Cygnet.

So fugly it's sad...

I'm not sure what this car is, but it sure needs a hug. Or some Valium.

Mercedes W116, Joan Rivers Edition




I'm not sure why this trend of taking older Mercedes-Benz models and making them look like newer models (but not really) started. These people need some kind of support group.

Five Axis Yaris Club: Oxymoronic


Note sure what esle to say about this meld of econobox and Can-Am race car.

Fugging Americans...

So the Ford Fiesta is here, and it had been touring America in it's European form for quite a while. Our version is pretty much the same car is the Europeans get, but Ford STILL uglied it up a bit for us. Why, I'm not sure. It seems to stem from the fact that North America has this obsession with between-the-headlights grilles.

The 5 door fares a bit better than the sedan on all accounts, but note the resilient 3 bar chrome grille (thankfully sedan only). Both the sedan and 5-door get chunk, chrometastic fog lights to replace the simple round units in the Euro model, and the sedan gets an oddly overweight looking body due to the tacked on trunk.

EURO:


FATSO:


Mansory can't colour coordinate




The 2010 Geneva Auto Show was relatively fug-free, but Mansory jumped on the chance to defile a Rolls Royce Ghost. Inside and outside is overwhelmingly blue and gold and fit for a pimp.