Marussia F2 is Fug²

Marussia is a Russian (clever name) supercar manufacturer. It's current offerings, the B1 and B2, are bizarre and slightly awkward looking, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them ugly.

However, the thing pictured above is bizarre to the extreme - and extremely fugly. Given the current SUV/crossover rage I'm guessing it's an SUV, although the sliding rear door gives it the look of a steroid induced minivan. A minivan that's taken so many steroids it's apparently suffered some ill effects.

With it's odd asymmetrical windows openings and gigantic window pillars, I can only guess they're going for an armoured car type of look. It almost looks as if the body panels were thrown into a wood chipper than then reassembled with many pieces missing. Also note the horrible alignment between the cutline in the front fender and the scoop in the door.

I can't find much English info on it, so I'm not sure if this is a concept or leading to a production vehicle or what the drivetrain is.

Mercury Poisoning

The Mercury Monarch - already a ritzy Ford Granada - does not fare well in Rolls Royce hybridization.

Mansory Panamera

Another case of Mansory doing what it does best - turning expensive cars into automotive cheese graters slathered in ungodly colours. This time it set it's eyes on the Porsche Panamera, which needs no help to achieve fugly status.

While I don't think the kit looks overly horrible (helps to reduce it's height a bit with the larger mouth up front and the carbon fibre hood), the shade of blue could probably damage your retinas. Combined with the yellow inside, riding in this car could probably give you seizures.

Cadillac CTS Hatch. I mean Coupe.

I fear that by posting this car I'll get a lot of disagreeing comments, but I for one can't bring myself to like the CTS Coupe. The car seems to be heralded by the media as the style leader of 2010. But in my mind a sleek, svelte coupe should not look like an overly tall hatchback.

Don't get me wrong - I like the regular CTS and Caddy's overall direction for the brand, but this car is too tall and stubby for my liking. The only view I don't mind is the side view, and even then kind looks like the ass end is cut off. 3/4 views front and rear look like a hatch, and the straight on rear view looks horrendous - it looks taller than it is wide.

Looking closer at the pictures, I'm beginning to think the problem lies within the signature Cadillac taillights. The narrow and heighten the look of the rear end, and the fact that the top edges meet the back window enforce the hatchback look. I think it'd look nicer with horizontal tails - but then it wouldn't look like a Cadillac. I suppose it might look like a 80-85 Seville, but who wants that.

Lemcoln

Flourescent Yellow!
The paint must have been on sale.
Bumble Bee Lincoln.

Rolls Royce Guilded Pickup

I think they're going for a Rolls Royce Silver Spirit/Spur thing here, given the period in which it was made. But I somehow think that crooked F150 headlights really exude that genuine Rolls Royce quality. They inspired me so much to write TWO haiku's, not just one.

Rolls Royce stretch limo?
Crooked truck headlights tell all.
Lincoln Town Car fail.

Nothing says classy
Like F150 headlights
On your stretch limo.

Homemade Hummer Haiku

A home-made Hummer
Makes an H1 look pretty
Scrap metal blunder

MG Cobra

So I've decided to write in Haiku, for as long as I can sustain it. Just to mix things up a little. (Haikus will be found under the pics).

MG Cobra
Original it is not
And it looks like it

J Mays - Retro Recycling

So they don't look exactly like each other, but I find the VW New Beetle and the last Ford Thunderbird share quite a few similarities. Enough so that you can tell the same hand was behind the look of both of them. Which is strange for two vehicles from completely different companies.

Attack of the Clones: Isoghini Lelerama

The Iso Lele and the Lamborghini Jarama are almost mirror images of each other. I can't really blame this clones on any of the manufacturers - both were styled by Bertone. So I guess the fault lies with Marcello Gandini, whose pen drew up both designs. Running out of idea at the time? These cars debuted months from each other as well, so there was no hiding the fact.

Wouldn't say either are ugly again (as is the case with most cloning - who would clone ugly?), but the Jarama is slightly better looking in my eyes. Looks beefier, and the it doesn't have the strange beltline that abruptly turn up and meets the roof after the rear wheels. Plus a Lele sounds like some kind of Hawaiian bird (it's named after the wife of the son of Iso's founder).

And then of course there's the Isuzu Impulse, which showed up to the cloning party a couple decades later.