A blog devoted to RANTS ON AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN, car reviews, and - above all - fugly autos. whether looking for vehicular plagiarism or rides of extreme tastelessness, you've come to the right place.


Thursday, January 20, 2011

Transformers - Less Than Meets the Eye


Saw this beaut today. Basically a stock Pontiac G6, but with Transformer logos on the doors and truck, and with white racing stripes containing the text "TRANSFORMERS". To add to the peculiarity of the vinyl treatment, the trunk also sported TWO Dakar Rally stickers. Maybe it transforms into two time Dakar rally winner? The owner was also a little surprising - I was expecting a teenage male driver, but it turned out to be a twenty-something Asian woman.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Honda Type-SLR

Yes, this is an attempt to create an SLR out of a 1996 Honda Accord SEDAN. It's difficult to see just how much work went into this, as apparently their photographer finds it very difficult to take photos with more than 3/4 of the car visible. Possibly on purpose, as I'm not really sure how they resolved the rear end. The only shot of it is below, and rather dark.

It's hard to tell, but it appears they might have achieved the triangular Benz tail light look by masking off the taillights. Compare with the photo below.

Also worth noting is a unique attempt at closing wheel gap. Instead of defaulting to larger rims and/or tires, they decided to drastically close in the the wheel openings with fender flares. I'm not sure how this is driveable, but then having no reverse lights (they've been covered up as you can see above) or visible spots to mount a license plate it's possible that this car will never move under it's own power on public roads. Which I suppose is a service to us all.

The enhanced shot below might better illustrate. As well as cutting off key areas of the car, the photos have very poor contrast - a lot of the detail gets lost. Again - possibly on purpose (to hide flaws?).

Vital Evolution 7, Part 2

Found more pictures of the beloved Vital Evolution 7. And this time you can see the front end, which brings it into a whole other realm of fugliness. Sporting more home-made holes than the rear end, it also sports 350Z headlights. Not sure if the black vinyl in the older post was removed, or these pictures are pre-application. However note that the mesh has been painted yellow, and the text "Twin Turbo Formula 7" appears on the rear bumper.

Saturday, January 08, 2011

A8 + R8 = H8

I feel like my title needs a little explanation. That's supposed to be H8 as in h-eight (hate), the feeling which I have for this unholy combination of A8 and R8, two of the better looking cars in their respective genres. At least it doesn't have the sideblades.


Bedazzling

While it might appear to be just an ugly paint job, the devil is in the details. First, note that it seems some one took a Bedazzler to all the shut lines. Also note that the hood pins are chained to the front bumper. I'm not sure that's good for the paint finish.

Also, if you think those rims look oddly familair - they're taken from an SRT8 300C.

Baffling Waffling

Not sure what this Japanese microcar was, but given the grille I assume it's now some kind of industrial waffle making machine capable of making 16 waffles at once.

When "topless" is a bad thing...

I would imagine that this unfortunate Lexus LX 570's offroad prowess would be somewhat reduced with the removal of it's roof. Not that it would have ventured off road anyway, I suppose.


Fleur-de-Lose


I posted these on a Aston the other day, not knowing what they were. However, now I do. Made by Graf Weckerle, the aluminum and titanium baroque wonders rims are on the Compte Noir (black count en francais) edition Ferrari 599 Fiorano. Astonishingly they take 20 days to build.

http://www.grafweckerle.de/index2.html

Sunday, January 02, 2011