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Ugly Cars

  • 22-10-2024 09:50PM
    #1
    appledrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,873 ✭✭✭


    There I am stuck in traffic as usual on my drive home on M50 and I notice what I think is a 'banger' SUV/mini van in front of me.

    Horrible big square black box of a thing with tiny lights across the back, like something from the 1980s.

    I nearly died when I saw it was a 242 D brand new Santa Fe. Without a doubt the ugliest car currently on the road. I will admit it didn't look as bad from front but still no getting away from that design on back.

    So it got me thinking, what do you think it the ugliest car around at the moment?



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Comments

  • #2
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,533 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Hyundai ionic 6! Ugly as…f##k



  • #3
    appledrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,873 ✭✭✭appledrop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122751487#Comment_122751487

    Yep hate that one aswell, whats going on with Hyundai, they always had nice cars before.

    Did they get some nutjob lately to design all their cars.



  • #4
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    I find most of the EVs grotesque. They're like Japanese cartoon cars.



  • #5
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,533 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    ionic 6

    Nissan Juke

    Nearly all SUV's

    In fact any car where the roof is more than 5 feet off the ground and has more than 2 doors is onto a looser when it comes to good looks!



  • #6
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,116 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Apparently that new Santa Fe is meant to beautiful personally I don't see it.

    Another one is the Kia EV9.



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  • #7
    glenfieldman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭glenfieldman


    I agree with the Hyundai 6, its like a 911 smashed into a Beetle

    2024-Kia-EV9_11zon-3.png
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    I hate these two SUVs



  • #8
    SineadSpears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


    An orange Renault Arkana.

    Mad looking yolk - imo

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  • #9
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,533 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    World car design of the year: Were the judges blind?

    https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/ioniq/ioniq-6-awards



  • #10
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,877 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    BMW ix2:

    image.png

    WTF..



  • #11
    goochy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,583 ✭✭✭goochy


    Like the santa fe ..don't like ionic 6 or curt cars in general. Opel mokka awful too



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  • #12
    appledrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,873 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Jaysus that Kia EV9 is horrific.

    The only EV cars I like are ones that don't look like an electric car!

    The id4 is grand and the Skoda EV think it's Enya or something like that just looks like their normal SUV.



  • #13
    appledrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,873 ✭✭✭appledrop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122751646#Comment_122751646

    Have you actually seen the Santa Fe in real life? I'm not been smart but doesn't look that bad in pictures, only when your stuck behind it for 20 mins that you would see how horrific the car is.

    Honestly a new car that looks like it's from the 80s is shocking.



  • #14
    Buddy Bubs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭Buddy Bubs


    Ioniq 6, Mercedes EQE and EQS all look a bit off because of the excellent aerodynamics.

    Audi seem to have cracked the aerodynamics problem and kept car looking good with the new A6 etron. The much less aerodynamic and less range and probably dearer Q6 will still outsell it though so you'd wonder why they bother.

    Tesla model Y horrendous looking, doesn't stop it being unbelievably popular.

    Some coupé style SUVs look very awkward and ugly from behind when the roof starts swooping into the coupe back end from a height, looks very out of proportion.

    Some BMW SUV are among the ugliest front ends now, I saw one the other day coming towards me I forget what model it was, not the big ix, maybe ix2 or ix3 or something, I couldn't believe the state of it.



  • #15
    goochy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,583 ✭✭✭goochy


    Most if not all electric cars. No wonder no one Is buying



  • #16
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    I don't mind the Model 3, but the Tesla Model Y is a really strange looking car. It's aerodynamics seem to be operating front, back and sides.

    The Santa Fe just doesn't look like a car for the Irish market. I could see it being used in the States, for transporting criminals between prisons.



  • #17
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,988 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    kia ev3, ev9, original juke, toyota chr ( just seems like a lot of wasted space ) bz4x , new discovery.

    edit: new defender

    I just don't like suv's

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  • #18
    goochy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,583 ✭✭✭goochy


    I saw sante fe in matt army green . Think could be good competitor for defender



  • #19
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,900 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    VW ID4 & ID5 . Both look very frumpy and inelegant - to my eyes anyway.



  • #20
    freddieot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭freddieot


    Love the Santa Fe although it took a while for the back to grow on me.

    Hate most EVs especially the Nissan Ariya, Toyota Abcwhatever, all pregnant looking Mercs and my 1977 Datsun had a more interesting interior than most Teslas - horrific looking yolks.



  • #21
    freddieot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭freddieot


    Exactly, like most VWs, no real design innovation since the original classic beetle, boring as hell and could be from any decade since the 80s. One day soon they'll probably relaunch the old Jetta design, as an EV of course.



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  • #22
    blackbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭blackbox


    This must be hard to beat:

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  • #23
    Olympush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭Olympush


    I’ve always thought the rear view of the Landrover Discovery is horrendous with the plate all over to one side. Looks as if the car has had a stroke! 😂

    IMG_1362.jpeg


  • #24
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,888 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    The Toyota Prius looks ridiculous now, especially from the rear

    image.png

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  • #25
    PixelCrafter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭PixelCrafter


    The original Prius was quite a decent design. The winged tail lights were just ludicrous looking and basically wrecked it.

    Also, yeah the Discovery with the off-centre plate is annoying. It's like that fad for asymmetric clothes that lasted a very short time.



  • #26
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,330 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    I think the Tesla 3 rear end is ungainly.



  • #27
    bladespin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,533 ✭✭✭bladespin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122751499#Comment_122751499

    This, get the feeling they're all copied from the Jetsons or similar.

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  • #28
    sligopaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭sligopaul


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122752463#Comment_122752463

    That iteration of the prius was very ugly , the previous two were reasonable looking. In recent years Toyota seem to have got their sh*t together with their design language , the current prius is an attractive machine

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  • #29
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,292 ✭✭✭cml387


    P90492179_highRes_bmw-i7-xdrive60-m-sp (1).jpg

    Looks like Darth Vader's ar5e



  • #30
    freddieot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭freddieot


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122752524#Comment_122752524

    I'd be on the same page as you on that. Love the interior of all of them as well.



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  • #31
    PixelCrafter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭PixelCrafter


    It's one area that Europe used to be quite reliably good at - generally producing a high % of nice looking, well designed cars. That's really not the case anymore.

    The 'sci-fi' design aesthetic for EVs is probably putting a lot of people off.

    Also they need to either put a grill on it or don't, but stop making these awful looking fronts. There's no reason for them in most cases, and if you look at older designs of cars the grills were often quite minimised. The big brute of a giant grill seems to have become a thing and has carried through to EVs.



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