SixTen Sabre

Have a Mustang convertible and think it's not unique enough? Like British cars but have very little taste? The SixTen Sabre is the kit car for you! Using a Mustang base, they add a swoopy (and flimsy) body kit with Mini headlights that lend a Morgan air (not exactly the most attractive car in itself) and rotated Volvo taillights that look all kinds of wrong.

2012 Honda Civic

Again, not exactly a case of fugliness, but a case of moving backward, not forward. Or one might argue maintaining status quo. Still, one would think a major revision to a car would involve making it a bit more desirable.


The 2012 Honda Civic is only remarkable in how much it looks like the current model. The biggest change can be seen on the sedan, which abandons the old hockey stick taillights (aka: controvertial; fugly) in place of some more generic, previous generation Camry type taillights. While they aren't as strange, the also manage to make the car look older.


The revisions to the coupe look even less drastic - but somehow manage to make the look of the previous sleek little coupe a bit more chunky and ungainly.


Although occasional mild redos may be typical Honda fashion, this segment is suddenly en vogue now that gas prices have been and are still rising. Competition is only going to get more fierce, and it's competitors know this. Kia's recent Forte and Forte Koup are lookers, and Hyundai's Elantra is a bombshell. Ford's Fiesta and the Chevrolet Cruze are also substantially better looking and have upped the bar for interior refinement. Hyundai is also planning an Elantra coupe and hatchback/wagon (something Honda doesn't even offer). This might be the wrong time for a mild redo.

2013 Ford Taurus

Ford is facelifting the Taurus for 2013, and while not exactly fugly I definately don't think it's an improvement.

2010 Taurus

2013 Taurus

While the Taurus reboot in 2010 was sleek and attractive, the 2013 refresh tries to bring in a hint of Mustang with it's new headlights. However these are complimented by a larger overwrought grille and fascia. The grille between the headlights is marred by strips of chrome that look like they were added as an afterthought. Down below is more chrome lipping the central portion of the grillework, splitting it into three segments with separate design themes. I think overall a bit too much is going on. I've attached my take on a slight revision to clean up the front end a bit.

Original

Take #1 - No Chrome

Take #2 - Central Strip

2013 also brings a facelift and separate facial identity for the SHO. The grille between it's headlights is an expanse of black plastic mesh, whose simpler look looks better. However from certain angles this huge field of plastic looks a bit cheap.

Mansory Cormeum

Mansory is at it again releasing a new modified SLS called the Cormeum. Maybe their name is a portmanteau of “Man, I’m Sorry"...

The droopy face of the Stirling Moss SLR just borders on the brink of fugliness on it's own. Slapping that face on the SLS and adding random visual "go-fast" bits definitely pushes it over the edge of the precipice. I mean – scoops inside scoops? Slathering it in what looks like a faux carbon fibre wrap just ads insult to injury. I’m seriously beginning to think Mansory's staff of designers are a group of 14 year old boys.

Mitsubishi e-compact Concept

Mentioning this car not because it’s ugly necessarily, but because it’s completely devoid of any resemblance of style. It almost looks like someone took a Ford Fiesta and removed all the interesting design cues to create one of those unbranded generic any-cars you see in advertising. Combined with a boring and forgetful name, I doubt anyone will remember this concept next week, let alone in years to come.

Gumbert Torante

Finally, Gumbert is introducing a new sports car that actually looks pretty. For the most part. Around back things start to fall apart, as it has an almost industrial appliance type of look with taillights that look oddly like bar-code scanners lifted from a grocery store.

Alfa Romeo 4C Concept

Maybe I'm alone, but to me the new Alfa Romeo 4C Concept looks remarkably like the Lotus Evo, sans rear seating. I suppose it's mainly due to the fact that the Evora looks a little like a Ferrari in the hind quarters, and they're related to Alfas by blood.

TechArt Cayenne

The widemouthed, surprised looking TechArt Porsche Cayenne bodykit looks to be inspired by Edvard Munch's "The Scream". Which is fitting, as this is the reaction that I had upon first setting eyes upon it. Why is it that every modified Cayenne has to be an orgy of gaping orifices?

AutoChops

Just posting my new blog, devoted photo manipulation. Thought I would keep it separate from AutoFug. Bear with me - it's still in the construction stages.

http://autochops.blogspot.com/

Paging Elton John

Besides having a horrible that seems to have little to do with anything, Mini's new Rocketman concept for the 2011 Geneva Autoshow is an ugly little beast. What's more, the looks aren't even that original, resembling a shortened version of the equally ugly Citroen C-Cactus concept from 2007.