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.

Island of Doctor Morecedes

Attempts to inject growth hormone in a Mercedes SL during it's development produced disastrous results.

El Camaro

Early styling mock-ups for the SSR did not fare well in focus groups. People should just stop trying with this concept...

Mercedes Devolution

Someone has been fiddling with this poor old Mercedes' (is it an E-Class or an S-Class?) genes. SL headlights, SLK taillights, SLR hood vents... Not to mention the shark gills on the sides, or the sextuplet tailpipes out back, or the ASMA inspired grille up front (why is this hideous look a fad?)...

Wankel powered Wanker

Another case of the adding Mercedes cues to Japanese sports cars. This version IMO is better off in the looks department, but it looks more like a Celica than a Mercedes. And I doubt they're trying to emulate an underpowered and googly-eyed Toyota.

SLK2000

I'm not sure why you would attempt to graft the from of an SLK onto an S2000, but in case you were wondering what that abomination would look like, here it is.

Toyota Turd-cel

You know how is some hardcore race cars based off stock models, they sometimes remove a headlight and replace it with a hole for pushing air more directly into the intake? I think that's the look this guy is trying to achieve. Also - I'm quite sure that his fancy warped chin spoiler is actually that plastic edging you can buy for gardens. I got quite familiar with the stuff last spring doing yard work...

Also present are a hick-Cosworth dual spoiler out back, and the obligatory stickers outlining what is (and most likely isn't) under the hood.

SLKill it with fire

Basically a first-gen SLK with CLK (or SL?) headlights and the ugliest grillework this side of this car and an Audi. Even ignoring the mug, the colour combo of orange and blue would still keep it safely fugtastic. Especially when you get inside, and the blue leather takes on a disgusting Barney-hide hue.

Although I do kinda like the taillights, in an 80's Benz kinda way.

Bōsōzoku

So I've stumbled across Bōsōzoku - a Japanese subculture of fugly weirdness who cars I featured previously on my site. I had an inkling they belong to a specific Japanese "style" as they all kinda matched in their own weird and fugly ways, and because of this I had a "Japan" subcategory already made for them. Now that I know what this is called, I've renamed it.

Click here for the new Bōsōzoku subcategory. Note that the label for this style is still "Japan", because I'm too lazy to go back through all the posts and change them.