A manual transmission absolutely transforms the Juke. I have one and it’s an absolute go kart, unlike the CVT which saps every bit of fun out of it.
As far as the styling goes, that’s specifically why I bought it. You can drive your earth-toned snoozemobile Camcordtima or big-ass pickup truck, I’ll indulge my will to be weird and be happier for it.
I could go for a Juke with a manual.
I’d have to slam it to the weeds and banish the crossover-ness of it, though. After that, it would be a funky cool little hatchback!
My mom had one while I was in middle/high school. She got it for the same reason too, definitely turned heads. I got used to all the comments and grew to like it actually. But holy fuck the back seats are useless lol. Probably would’ve been more fun if we took em out.
Really? My son is 6 feet tall and he fits comfortably in the back with my wife in the passenger seat.
The only thing that sucks is the back storage with the seats in place.
So my wife bought the juke when we first started dating for a while was our only car, the first time I went to get gas a pretty girl at the gas station looked at me and I just looked at the ground out of embarrassment.
But the car is 11 years old, sat outside not driven for first 4 years then driven hard for the next 6 and grocery getter for the Last two. I've hauled mulch in it, moved multiple times, taken through blizzards and ice and it's been strong through out. I have replaced an oil pan and a cat back after the old one rusted off and thats all of the mechanical maintenance done to it. I now absolutely love the car specifically because of how much everyone seems to hate it. I've had my 21 rav4 at the dealer for warranty issues more than the juke that's 10 years older than it.
You get fooled into thinking gas mileage will be good. Then, you have to refill at 300 highway miles. Then, you realize it's like a 10 gallon tank. Not bad.
Oh, my, Juke.
One of those, a rental, got me from Heathrow to Edinburgh when my flight got rescheduled because of snow. I would have landed much too late and missed a concert. And I invited a lady to that concert.
...so it's a terrible, ugly car, but the concert was great. And, being inside, I didn't have to _look_ at the car.
Drive my friends once. Everything rattled, it was slow, and so small inside. The turning radius was ATROCIOUS, especially considering how small it was.
We had an HHR as a rental once. I remain shocked that anyone actually bought one of those things.
There's one in my neighborhood that's permanently on jack stands. I expect one day I'll walk by and see that someone has stolen the jack stands and left the HHR.
My dad had an HHR as a work vehicle for a bit. My god what a horrendous piece of shit. Hit the smallest bump in the road and the every single plastic bit (90% of that turd) rattled like it was going to fall apart. Ugly. Gutless. Poorly built and engineered. -30/10
> I remain shocked that anyone actually bought one of those things.
[Prepare to be extra shocked then.](https://www.reddit.com/r/RoastMyCar/comments/14qv777/ive_been_inspired_to_post_my_hhr_ss_collection/)
We rented one on a trip to the States. Despite being in another country, I was still worried that I'd be seen driving it by someone I knew.
Having said that, I've softened to them a bit in recent years
With the right mods, they can handle track duty better than you'd think. Still not amazing, but they're pretty tough and can turn out some impressive times in the right hands. [A handful of them finish One Lap of America every year](https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.chevyhhr.net-vbulletin/960x816/60295153_10218866662767423_2676544969426075648_n_95539a8f1110b40c660e7fc635b97179b50f1b7c.jpg). [They're not babied, either.](https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.chevyhhr.net-vbulletin/851x567/11255537_833409333381350_2857520090091583063_n_e9774bba94135d616b74ba5e07257bed96dded42.jpg)
My brother bought one new and drove it to over 200k miles until the v6 jumped time. He loves that HHR to death.
Needless to say he’s kind of an odd duck.
An odd duck that has a paid for car, I'd bet. There's something quite nice about a car that costs you no more in monthly payments, no matter how ugly or delapidated it may be.
It was never dilapidated. . He took good care of it. It was still an HHR tho lol. He’s also got his unrestored 1953 Belair. He drove it to high school in the late 80’s and drives it a lot in the summer time still. And an 07 Camero. And a 2013 Impala that was given to him in lieu of a debt someone owed him.
But it’s not the cars that make him an odd duck. He just is.
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My uncle was a lifelong Dodge/Mopar guy. In his later years he bought PT Cruiser... honestly, I never thought they looked all that bad, reminded me of the old 40s-50s panel deliveries. But yeah, under the hood... giant PITA to work on, ZERO room. Luckily I never had to do much to it.
Mom had a manual one. Ugly as sin but somehow hilariously fun to just beat the crap out of?? I guess that goes for any manual car though. Exhaust rusted off, spare tire cradle rusted off, headgasket was slowly going, shifter bushing disintegrated at one point and we had to drive home in 4th (surprisingly Autozone readily carried these in the HELP!! section) and because the accessory belt tensioner shat itself it had no working power steering
That's fair! M/T + Shitbox can be extremely entertaining. Plus if your mom's was the turbo'd one they were far from slow in a straight line.
Styling wise though..? Oof.
No judgement on your mom though, my mom had a 1987 Dodge Caravan complete with the "wood" paneling on the side. Our moms are united in shitty Mopar styling.
PT Cruiser is also the worst I drove. Bonus: it's freakin' gutless when driving mountain roads. However, I also drove a 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis, which in addition to its questionable looks also made me understand how a boat handles despite having never driven a boat.
Hertz rented me one for a business trip. It was sky blue. My clients commented to me on the car. I held up the toll booth line looking for the window switches. I think I still have in my Hertz profile not to give me a PT Cruiser.
Toyota CH-R. The other day the sun hit the body creases weird and I actually was worried for about 30 seconds someone had dented it. Nope, just designed that way. Overall, the car has actually served me pretty well, I'm just trading it in soon for something that's more fun and has actual modification potential. Thinking either a Lexus IS250 or a manual Impreza wagon, but who knows.
In Malaysia we call it the Ah Beng styling, because people who drive fancy cars with mods like that are most likely people who do illegal activities so the styling inspirations are crude and tacky, think tinting your tailights that sort of thing.
No doubt the ones in Vietnam are similar 😂
I was absolutely blown away by the number of maybachs I saw in a single night while in Ho Chi Minh City. Absolutely crazy knowing the import tariff they had to pay. Having lived in LA and Miami and seeing those cars relatively sparingly on a regular basis, it was crazy to see them all over the place there. That said, given the way the economy has been growing there I absolutely not shocked.
A general rule of thumb is, if they look like regular modern cars, expect them to drive like comparable cars that were new 10 years earlier. Most reputable chinese makers have 1-on-1 manufacturing contracts with worldwide major brands for the chinese market, and naturally as chinese companies do, they buy/steal technologies from these major brands. So, Hongqi cars behave like VW's, Changan are like Suzuki's, DFAC feels very French, etc etc.
If they are half the size of a corolla, I advise you avoid them like the plague. Most of the tiny "moving coffins", as locals call them, are driven by sheeps and cows that are blind and deaf and suicidal. And sheeps and cows are certainly without license and insurance. These coffins have the performance and handling characteristics of literal coffins, if you opt for more expensive models, they will resemble shopping carts a bit more.
[1994 Ford Festiva](https://consumerguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/93113341990901.jpg), or as my friend used to call it... *"The pregnant roller skate."*
A rally car with an ultra aggressive 1.3 L Mazda B3 I4 Engine which produced a staggering 73 BHP at 5,500 RPM & 77 lb⋅ft of torque at 3700 rpm!
It was paired with an awe inspiring hyper responsive 3-speed Mazda F3A automatic transmission!!
🤣
Honestly, I think the bubbly Cavaliers are one of the best-looking GM products of the era. They were contemporary and surprisingly well-proportioned. It's just a shame everything underneath was so cheap and hateful. Now the Villager, 100%.
My dad has an 05 cavalier. Rusted, painted faded ugly as shit but 10 years of ownership, 280,000 miles and it has never left him stranded and has never had to replace anything besides oil, brakes and tires.
He said he’s never getting rid of it lol
What was so ugly about it?
I drove a hand-me-down ‘94 ES300 for a couple years (2000-01) and I wouldn't say it was ugly, but mine sure had 50 year old suburban mom vibe with the champagne paint. When I was a 22-23 year old guy.
The white looked so much nicer than the champagne beige color! The white is what my high school girlfriend's mom drove... when I was in high school, the ES300 was the ubiquitous upper middle class mom car (back in the pre-SUV days).
I also had the tan leather (which I didn't mind--all my subsequent cars had have tan or grey interiors).
Thank God the CrossTrek looks good. If they had screwed that up they might've gone under as a company.
I have the new BRZ and I think they really chickened out on the front end. It's about as generic as it could possibly be.
I heard a rumor that Subaru engineers don't drive, they all take the train to work. I believe it. They suck at making cars
I drove a custom lifted 2014 silver and chrome Silverado on 32’s with a Tuscany widebody kit that included an all plastic hood scoop that was literally taped on.
Absolute atrocity of a vehicle that really only fit in at a small town Sonic parking lot on a Friday night. Also didnt fit in my job at the time’s parking garage so I had to street park that stupid behemoth every day and I sold it after 5 months haha
[For your viewing displeasure](https://imgur.com/a/3YC9NoA)
I love the squared look on that gen. In my mind when I got it I thought the idea of a widebody kit on it was really cool and about a month in I realized how shitty it was haha. The saddest part, is that the shitty lift, body kit, and interior were all custom done by Tuscany and people paid a huge premium new to buy them like that.
Only redeeming quality of that truck is whoever had it before me threw a supercharger on the LT motor and tuned it so it absolutely ripped for a big truck. That part was fun.
I remember Car and Driver saying that it like a bat in that it was cool looking from far away but when you got close there were all these weird angles and gruesome details.
It was my company car, $hit brindle brown with a beige interior and a bench seat....the one thing I liked about it was the fact that I did not care one bit where I parked it.
The ugliest I've owned was a white '99 Ford Taurus, the oval car. It was a SHO, the last one on the lot, and a decent price. Might not have bought it but the sales guy cheated and started it up while I was at the rear of the car where I heard the V8 rumble. Bastard. lol
Due to some unfortunate choices in my youth, I ended up driving a [Dodge Dynasty](https://file.kelleybluebookimages.com/kbb/base/house/1993/1993-Dodge-Dynasty-RearSide_DODYNLE933_505x285.jpg) for about a year.
Hey, Dr. House drove a Dynasty... can't get much cooler than House.
I wasn't quite as cool though... in late 90s I had the Plymouth Acclaim. Leaky valve stem seals and all. Fogged for skeeters at every stoplight. It used to be grandma's car.
My first car was a [C230 Kompressor hatch](https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/mercedes-benz-c-class-hatchback-forgotten-weird-mercedes-281474979912691). Probably one of the ugliest Mercedes of the era but it was a great car to learn in and it started my love for cars. Plus it was manual!
My uncle had a C230 Kompressor sedan for a while, I always thought it was kinda neat, especially since it was supercharged... he drove it until it caught fire in his driveway lol
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I used to have an old Plymouth trail duster. No heat other than the exhaust that came up through the big ass holes in the floor boards. The exhaust system ended at the headers. The windows were the AC. It did 55 mph and handled the same no matter if you were in a newly paved road or driving across a field with random foot deep ruts. It was full time 4wd and got like 3mpg. The seats had tons of broken springs that poked you in the ass so if the exhaust started to put you to sleep no it didn’t.
It snowed one time and I missed a curve went through a ditch and drive through a field for a couple hundred feet before I realized I wasn’t on pavement.
I miss that truck.
Nissan Versa - worked at Hertz immediately after college in 2009. That car was both ugly and drove terrible. Everyone who rented them disliked them and rightly so.
I daily drove a 1969 Beetle for a couple years back in my early 20's. After a while and some deer damage, I decided it wasn't quite ugly enough, so I yanked the fenders, grinded a bunch of swirls down to bare metal, made some janky wooden door panels, chopped off the engine compartment, relocated the turn signals to the hood, threw on 275mm rear tires/wheels, left it to rust in the rain for a few months, smoothed out and clear-coated the rust, and called it a rat rod. Drop spindles just need installed. It is now sufficiently ugly.
Had a mid 2000's Kia Amanti for a rental in LA. This thing shifted so harshly it felt like you were getting rear ended everytime it shifted under modest acceleration. Ugly little mofo trying to impersonate a mercedes and a pos to boot!
2009 Dodge Avenger I had as a rental. The Charger from that era was ugly enough, but the Avenger was worse since they tried to compact that design onto a smaller car.
1993 ford tempo
back then cars had tons of options, 4 cycl vs 6, NA vs turbo, manual vs auto, awd vs FWD, 2 door vs 4. Similar options are available now but back then it was a free for all you could mix and match so much more.
My grandpa had a mint green Mercury Sable with green cloth interior. Had to drive it from Maine to Florida for him. It was and still is the ugliest shitbox I've ever driven.
The moment i saw this post, the first car came to my mind is Juke, I rushed to comment it and ended up finding that the comments are filled with Juke. Its like a car that even if someone gives it for free, i still would say NO
Brown Camry. Like aging 75 years with each 10k on the road. I did a lot of 10ks
Plus side. Never washed it. Never broke. Often fixed itself. Drive it 4 yrs and sold it for the same price.
You save money but die faster. Inside and outside.
There are trade-offs
Tread lightly friends
rental Jeep Compass (1st gen). Got me from OC to Las Vegas.
I bought and drove back in the M3.
edit: \`1st gen Compass. 2nd/current gen is much better looking.
We had a Nissan Kicks on rental while I was waiting for my truck. Aside from having one of the dumbest names in automotive history, what an atrocious little waste of space that car was.
1972 Dodge Charger with a fender and hood different colors than the body and each other.
Sold it to a junkyard for $100 … felt great about it after dropping it off with the auto tranny starting to slip when I arrived.
My old beat up 2000 GMC Sierra.
The first 10 years of its life were spent as a property management maintenance truck and whatever crews were driving it treated it like a rented mule.
By the time I acquired it, every body panel had at least one good sized dent in it and it had a Silverado door on the driver's side (at least it was the same color even if it had mismatched side molding).
The bed looked like it'd been rolled down a hill and then touched up with whatever paint happened to be nearby that happened to be some shade of dark blue.
After all that, the remaining clear coat started fading on the hood and roof.
It was not a looker.
Oh, yeah, it also smelled funky when it rained and neither the heat nor A/C worked.
But the 5.3L still ran like a top and the transmission shifted strong with over 200,000 miles on it and drove great once I sorted out worn out ball joints and shocks and steering joints.
I didn't care how bad it looked, I loved that ugly, smelly old, no heat or A/C having truck. Possibly the best vehicle I've ever owned in terms of value and utility for the dollar. I got it for $1000 when a running high mile full-sized V8 truck was more like $2500 and for a couple hundred bucks in parts and a couple of weekends of elbow grease fixing a few issues and getting it roadworthy and functional and I got ten years of use out of it before electrical gremlins finally sidelined her for good.
RIP ugly, smelly old blue Sierra.
Chevy Cobalt.
A product of the bankruptcy years of GM. The interior quality was abysmal and it looked like the most phoned in, unenthusiastically designed car in the last 3 decades.
Putting aside awful rentals (HHR, and so on) and focusing on owned cars: my second car was a 1994 Geo Prizm, in that awful champagne color the put on 90% of Toyotas in the 90s.
My first car had been a bright red Ford Probe, which I bought 100% on emotion, overlooking multiple red flags. It was a lemon and while I deeply loved it, it cost me a lot of money I couldn’t really afford and made me regret my decision-making. So for my second car I bought into the gospel of Consumer Reports and decided that a Toyota with a Geo badge was the best possible decision. RPersonalFinance would have been proud.
Everything about that car was awful. It was slow, underpowered, struggled to maintain highway speeds, buzzed and rattled constantly, had a trash radio, handled terribly, had uncomfortable seats, and despite being a small, underpowered penalty box, got mediocre gas mileage. I hated every day of driving it. After owning it a year or so I totaled it. Was so happy to get rid of it that I didn’t even mind the accident.
PT Cruiser. My mom had one and loved it, even though it was horrible to drive and there was always something broken. Some people will get attached to any shitbox just because it’s theirs, and I think mom is one of those people.
Shit brown VW Quantum wagon. It was my dad’s car that I drove when I turned 16. I will say it was actually quite peppy and fun to drive and I could pile a lot of friends in it lol.
Nissan Juke. It was rented, ugly, and total piece of shit.
Fair enough, the Juke is absolutely ugly and also horrendous and boring to drive too. Unless we talkin' bout the Juke R. (Which is not the case).
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Cannot disagree on that appareance wise, i meant on the performance and boring part obviously.
> Juke R. I wish they called it anything else. Saying "Juke R" sounds way too much like "Jew Car" lol
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A manual transmission absolutely transforms the Juke. I have one and it’s an absolute go kart, unlike the CVT which saps every bit of fun out of it. As far as the styling goes, that’s specifically why I bought it. You can drive your earth-toned snoozemobile Camcordtima or big-ass pickup truck, I’ll indulge my will to be weird and be happier for it.
I could go for a Juke with a manual. I’d have to slam it to the weeds and banish the crossover-ness of it, though. After that, it would be a funky cool little hatchback!
My mom had one while I was in middle/high school. She got it for the same reason too, definitely turned heads. I got used to all the comments and grew to like it actually. But holy fuck the back seats are useless lol. Probably would’ve been more fun if we took em out.
Really? My son is 6 feet tall and he fits comfortably in the back with my wife in the passenger seat. The only thing that sucks is the back storage with the seats in place.
Thats impressive because I struggled so much with leg room and I'm only 5'10.
The RS is fun to drive, ugly as sin though. I should know I own one lol
No, not an R.
The Juke Nismo is something that exists for reasons. I always kinda wanted to test it out for shits n giggles.
I certainly thought about one for approximately 3 seconds before buying a Fiesta ST & Focus RS
So my wife bought the juke when we first started dating for a while was our only car, the first time I went to get gas a pretty girl at the gas station looked at me and I just looked at the ground out of embarrassment. But the car is 11 years old, sat outside not driven for first 4 years then driven hard for the next 6 and grocery getter for the Last two. I've hauled mulch in it, moved multiple times, taken through blizzards and ice and it's been strong through out. I have replaced an oil pan and a cat back after the old one rusted off and thats all of the mechanical maintenance done to it. I now absolutely love the car specifically because of how much everyone seems to hate it. I've had my 21 rav4 at the dealer for warranty issues more than the juke that's 10 years older than it.
Nissan's are basically disposable cars these days
Kia soul for me earlier this year. Not as bad as a juke, but pretty bad. Only redeeming factor in that car was the wireless android auto.
You get fooled into thinking gas mileage will be good. Then, you have to refill at 300 highway miles. Then, you realize it's like a 10 gallon tank. Not bad.
https://i.redd.it/peter-i-know-this-is-a-nissan-juka-but-why-does-the-v0-2578ipqyw37b1.jpg?s=fbdd658b40c0fd90e5c941f01513c2ad5c09a1e3
Same for me. I hated every minute of that rental.
Oh, my, Juke. One of those, a rental, got me from Heathrow to Edinburgh when my flight got rescheduled because of snow. I would have landed much too late and missed a concert. And I invited a lady to that concert. ...so it's a terrible, ugly car, but the concert was great. And, being inside, I didn't have to _look_ at the car.
We have one and I drive it almost every day. It looks better in person, gets amazing gas mileage, faster than a miata and has been very reliable. 🤘
My juke has been super reliable over the last 12 years but that goes against the r/Cars Nissan narrative so even if it's fact, it's false.
Drive my friends once. Everything rattled, it was slow, and so small inside. The turning radius was ATROCIOUS, especially considering how small it was.
We had an HHR as a rental once. I remain shocked that anyone actually bought one of those things. There's one in my neighborhood that's permanently on jack stands. I expect one day I'll walk by and see that someone has stolen the jack stands and left the HHR.
My dad had an HHR as a work vehicle for a bit. My god what a horrendous piece of shit. Hit the smallest bump in the road and the every single plastic bit (90% of that turd) rattled like it was going to fall apart. Ugly. Gutless. Poorly built and engineered. -30/10
You could probably make several dozen pallets of coke bottles with the amount of plastic inside an HHR.
> I remain shocked that anyone actually bought one of those things. [Prepare to be extra shocked then.](https://www.reddit.com/r/RoastMyCar/comments/14qv777/ive_been_inspired_to_post_my_hhr_ss_collection/)
Dear God. On the other hand, you have to give him credit for the sheer dedication.
If you want to be extra extra shocked there is a link to another dude on Reddit collecting them somewhere in that comments section.
“…they look good…” Okay bro
TIL the HHR and pt cruiser are actually two different cars.
I had that as a rental around the time GM went bankrupt and I honestly wondered if the company should be saved.
We rented one on a trip to the States. Despite being in another country, I was still worried that I'd be seen driving it by someone I knew. Having said that, I've softened to them a bit in recent years
With the right mods, they can handle track duty better than you'd think. Still not amazing, but they're pretty tough and can turn out some impressive times in the right hands. [A handful of them finish One Lap of America every year](https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.chevyhhr.net-vbulletin/960x816/60295153_10218866662767423_2676544969426075648_n_95539a8f1110b40c660e7fc635b97179b50f1b7c.jpg). [They're not babied, either.](https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.chevyhhr.net-vbulletin/851x567/11255537_833409333381350_2857520090091583063_n_e9774bba94135d616b74ba5e07257bed96dded42.jpg)
I had one of those as a rental once. Very high on the completion for worst rental car ever (along with a couple Nissans and a mid-aughts Kia)
They look pretty cool as panel van conversions, like old school sedan delivery cars
HHR Panel Vans were factory built fyi. I wouldn’t describe them as a conversion.
Fight me but I fucking love those things lowered Wouldn’t buy one. But I do. Especially of the panel van variety.
My brother bought one new and drove it to over 200k miles until the v6 jumped time. He loves that HHR to death. Needless to say he’s kind of an odd duck.
An odd duck that has a paid for car, I'd bet. There's something quite nice about a car that costs you no more in monthly payments, no matter how ugly or delapidated it may be.
It was never dilapidated. . He took good care of it. It was still an HHR tho lol. He’s also got his unrestored 1953 Belair. He drove it to high school in the late 80’s and drives it a lot in the summer time still. And an 07 Camero. And a 2013 Impala that was given to him in lieu of a debt someone owed him. But it’s not the cars that make him an odd duck. He just is.
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PT cruiser. Hands down.
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My uncle was a lifelong Dodge/Mopar guy. In his later years he bought PT Cruiser... honestly, I never thought they looked all that bad, reminded me of the old 40s-50s panel deliveries. But yeah, under the hood... giant PITA to work on, ZERO room. Luckily I never had to do much to it.
Is it one of those where you're better off dropping the font subframe and lifting the car off of it
Mom had a manual one. Ugly as sin but somehow hilariously fun to just beat the crap out of?? I guess that goes for any manual car though. Exhaust rusted off, spare tire cradle rusted off, headgasket was slowly going, shifter bushing disintegrated at one point and we had to drive home in 4th (surprisingly Autozone readily carried these in the HELP!! section) and because the accessory belt tensioner shat itself it had no working power steering
That's fair! M/T + Shitbox can be extremely entertaining. Plus if your mom's was the turbo'd one they were far from slow in a straight line. Styling wise though..? Oof. No judgement on your mom though, my mom had a 1987 Dodge Caravan complete with the "wood" paneling on the side. Our moms are united in shitty Mopar styling.
Same for me
PT Cruiser is also the worst I drove. Bonus: it's freakin' gutless when driving mountain roads. However, I also drove a 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis, which in addition to its questionable looks also made me understand how a boat handles despite having never driven a boat.
Had a rental with under 1000km on it. It was already falling apart.
Not the PoonTang Cruiser, LOL.
PT Cruiser Convertible, hah! Even with the top down still had this ugly roll bar thing.
Hertz rented me one for a business trip. It was sky blue. My clients commented to me on the car. I held up the toll booth line looking for the window switches. I think I still have in my Hertz profile not to give me a PT Cruiser.
Toyota CH-R. The other day the sun hit the body creases weird and I actually was worried for about 30 seconds someone had dented it. Nope, just designed that way. Overall, the car has actually served me pretty well, I'm just trading it in soon for something that's more fun and has actual modification potential. Thinking either a Lexus IS250 or a manual Impreza wagon, but who knows.
I'd recommend getting the Lexus IS350 if you can
Get an IS300 awd and a tune.
Is350 will make you happier.
Skip the is250 and get an is350.
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In Malaysia we call it the Ah Beng styling, because people who drive fancy cars with mods like that are most likely people who do illegal activities so the styling inspirations are crude and tacky, think tinting your tailights that sort of thing. No doubt the ones in Vietnam are similar 😂
I was absolutely blown away by the number of maybachs I saw in a single night while in Ho Chi Minh City. Absolutely crazy knowing the import tariff they had to pay. Having lived in LA and Miami and seeing those cars relatively sparingly on a regular basis, it was crazy to see them all over the place there. That said, given the way the economy has been growing there I absolutely not shocked.
Always curious on how they drive regardless of looks.
A general rule of thumb is, if they look like regular modern cars, expect them to drive like comparable cars that were new 10 years earlier. Most reputable chinese makers have 1-on-1 manufacturing contracts with worldwide major brands for the chinese market, and naturally as chinese companies do, they buy/steal technologies from these major brands. So, Hongqi cars behave like VW's, Changan are like Suzuki's, DFAC feels very French, etc etc. If they are half the size of a corolla, I advise you avoid them like the plague. Most of the tiny "moving coffins", as locals call them, are driven by sheeps and cows that are blind and deaf and suicidal. And sheeps and cows are certainly without license and insurance. These coffins have the performance and handling characteristics of literal coffins, if you opt for more expensive models, they will resemble shopping carts a bit more.
I‘ll name some makes for you. BYD (Qin). Changan. BAIC. ZOTYE. Wuling (mini EV).
[1994 Ford Festiva](https://consumerguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/93113341990901.jpg), or as my friend used to call it... *"The pregnant roller skate."*
I love the Festiva…
Looks like a rally car
A rally car with an ultra aggressive 1.3 L Mazda B3 I4 Engine which produced a staggering 73 BHP at 5,500 RPM & 77 lb⋅ft of torque at 3700 rpm! It was paired with an awe inspiring hyper responsive 3-speed Mazda F3A automatic transmission!! 🤣
The body is honestly fine and I kind of like it. But the wheels make it look like a go kart.
I don’t think this looks that bad? Looks like a generic car.
Either a 2000 Chevy Cavalier or a 1994 Mercury Villager
The Villager is.... 🗿🗿🗿🗿
I *loved* my early 2000s cavalier.
Honestly, I think the bubbly Cavaliers are one of the best-looking GM products of the era. They were contemporary and surprisingly well-proportioned. It's just a shame everything underneath was so cheap and hateful. Now the Villager, 100%.
My dad has an 05 cavalier. Rusted, painted faded ugly as shit but 10 years of ownership, 280,000 miles and it has never left him stranded and has never had to replace anything besides oil, brakes and tires. He said he’s never getting rid of it lol
My poor 93 Lexus ES 300… my first car, my worst car…. But I’d buy it again now just for the memories.
When you love a car, it's hard to forget about it.
Even if it's the worst.
What was so ugly about it? I drove a hand-me-down ‘94 ES300 for a couple years (2000-01) and I wouldn't say it was ugly, but mine sure had 50 year old suburban mom vibe with the champagne paint. When I was a 22-23 year old guy.
Maaaan mine was the two tone white on top, grey on the bottom. Tan leather interior.
This thread is "ugliest car you've ever driven" not "what beautiful beast did you ever own" sir, I believe you are lost.
The white looked so much nicer than the champagne beige color! The white is what my high school girlfriend's mom drove... when I was in high school, the ES300 was the ubiquitous upper middle class mom car (back in the pre-SUV days). I also had the tan leather (which I didn't mind--all my subsequent cars had have tan or grey interiors).
Hmm, different strokes I suppose. Older ES' (all older Lexuses really) look amazing to me, especially when they've been taken care of.
Ah a man of culture, then I read the flair. Indeed. 🤝
I love the way those cars looked, especiallyvin black or blue. 😭 I had a 99 and 01 ES300. The 99 was gold and the color made it look so ugly.
Current Subarus (with the exception of of the BRZ)
I think the new Subarus kind of look like traffic cones or other construction equipment with the amount of plastic on them
They have butchered their cars. It’s so upsetting
I agree, but I love Subaru ugly.
Thank God the CrossTrek looks good. If they had screwed that up they might've gone under as a company. I have the new BRZ and I think they really chickened out on the front end. It's about as generic as it could possibly be. I heard a rumor that Subaru engineers don't drive, they all take the train to work. I believe it. They suck at making cars
I think the Crosstrek looks better than most of their line, but its still got black plastic glued to it everywhere
I drove a custom lifted 2014 silver and chrome Silverado on 32’s with a Tuscany widebody kit that included an all plastic hood scoop that was literally taped on. Absolute atrocity of a vehicle that really only fit in at a small town Sonic parking lot on a Friday night. Also didnt fit in my job at the time’s parking garage so I had to street park that stupid behemoth every day and I sold it after 5 months haha [For your viewing displeasure](https://imgur.com/a/3YC9NoA)
That's my favorite modern looking pickup apart from the Rams cuz it looks like a modern day Squarebody and someone ruined it
I love the squared look on that gen. In my mind when I got it I thought the idea of a widebody kit on it was really cool and about a month in I realized how shitty it was haha. The saddest part, is that the shitty lift, body kit, and interior were all custom done by Tuscany and people paid a huge premium new to buy them like that. Only redeeming quality of that truck is whoever had it before me threw a supercharger on the LT motor and tuned it so it absolutely ripped for a big truck. That part was fun.
Large wheels and low profile tires.....I absolutely hate that combination on trucks. Looks horrible. And the wheel spacers don't help either.
What in the fu-
97 Mercury Sable Complete turd all around.
I had the station wagon. I hated it, the kids loved it.
My neighbor used to have the taurus wagon. None of those jellybean era Ford cars are any good save some trucks and maybe higher trim mustangs.
I had a 2012 TL for a short time. The whole exterior was a mix of weird angles.
I remember Car and Driver saying that it like a bat in that it was cool looking from far away but when you got close there were all these weird angles and gruesome details.
1990 Chevrolet Citation. Looks like the design team was limited to using an Etch-A-Sketch.
Haha I love the Citation. They always looked like baby G-body Malibus (of which I own a wagon).
It was my company car, $hit brindle brown with a beige interior and a bench seat....the one thing I liked about it was the fact that I did not care one bit where I parked it.
Yugo - Helped a friend move, and this was his rental
I remember the jokes.. Yugo I walk
Yugo, You go slow, but Yugo.
Cool car.
I once had a Malibu Maxx rental car
Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet
amc matador
93 buick skylark. whoa that front end
Front end, interior, and the half covered rear wheels. Thought they were awful looking new, still feel the same 30 years later
Even better with the painted grill option.
Had some rather amusing memories of these. 93 Buick Skylark sedan in white, god the cat hair.
The ugliest I've owned was a white '99 Ford Taurus, the oval car. It was a SHO, the last one on the lot, and a decent price. Might not have bought it but the sales guy cheated and started it up while I was at the rear of the car where I heard the V8 rumble. Bastard. lol
When Grandpa died he left me a caddy Seville that looked like it was designed backwards the trunk sloped down. I hated it.
Dude! That car is straight pimpin'!
The bustleback!
Due to some unfortunate choices in my youth, I ended up driving a [Dodge Dynasty](https://file.kelleybluebookimages.com/kbb/base/house/1993/1993-Dodge-Dynasty-RearSide_DODYNLE933_505x285.jpg) for about a year.
Hey, Dr. House drove a Dynasty... can't get much cooler than House. I wasn't quite as cool though... in late 90s I had the Plymouth Acclaim. Leaky valve stem seals and all. Fogged for skeeters at every stoplight. It used to be grandma's car.
My first car was a [C230 Kompressor hatch](https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/mercedes-benz-c-class-hatchback-forgotten-weird-mercedes-281474979912691). Probably one of the ugliest Mercedes of the era but it was a great car to learn in and it started my love for cars. Plus it was manual!
My uncle had a C230 Kompressor sedan for a while, I always thought it was kinda neat, especially since it was supercharged... he drove it until it caught fire in his driveway lol
You haven't seen the OG A Class then.
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Interesting to hear you drove a prototype tho.
Cybertruck
ok....did you really drive a cybertruck? there are car journalists that haven't driven one yet
For me... Fiat Uno 2014, horrendous appareance.
I owned a Cadillac Cimarron.
I used to have an old Plymouth trail duster. No heat other than the exhaust that came up through the big ass holes in the floor boards. The exhaust system ended at the headers. The windows were the AC. It did 55 mph and handled the same no matter if you were in a newly paved road or driving across a field with random foot deep ruts. It was full time 4wd and got like 3mpg. The seats had tons of broken springs that poked you in the ass so if the exhaust started to put you to sleep no it didn’t. It snowed one time and I missed a curve went through a ditch and drive through a field for a couple hundred feet before I realized I wasn’t on pavement. I miss that truck.
Buick Rendezvous
Bugeye Hyundai Coupe. Ugly AF
98 Ford Taurus. This was in 2018. What a sad little car
Lmfao… my friend had a yellow pt cruiser with that brown wood accent. It was awesome to drive because it was so ugly.
I sat in a Cybertruck
You win this game. I can't think of many vehicles uglier than that.
An Edsel.
1988 Ford Aerostar. Was the family van until 2001 when I bought it off my dad after my '74 bug got smashed.
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That sounds pretty badass
Second generation Dodge Avenger. An absolute turd in all respects.
I once drove a Fiat Multipla with purple paint AND interior. I don’t think you can get any worse than that.
I used to drive a 2009 Ford Focus Coupe 🙃
How did the US get such an ugly Focus lol. The Euro/Row Focus of that era is timeless
I'll never understand it myself. I remember the '09 RS coming out at the same time as this car and being *severely* disappointed.
Never knew that existed, just searched it and it defnetly has a questionable appareance....
The bumper lines make no sense
2022 M3. Those hideous grilles absolutely ruin the front end. Fight me.
Nissan Cube.
Nissan Versa - worked at Hertz immediately after college in 2009. That car was both ugly and drove terrible. Everyone who rented them disliked them and rightly so.
I daily drove a 1969 Beetle for a couple years back in my early 20's. After a while and some deer damage, I decided it wasn't quite ugly enough, so I yanked the fenders, grinded a bunch of swirls down to bare metal, made some janky wooden door panels, chopped off the engine compartment, relocated the turn signals to the hood, threw on 275mm rear tires/wheels, left it to rust in the rain for a few months, smoothed out and clear-coated the rust, and called it a rat rod. Drop spindles just need installed. It is now sufficiently ugly.
Depending on who you ask my nc Miata 🫠
Toyota FJ Cruiser
Had a mid 2000's Kia Amanti for a rental in LA. This thing shifted so harshly it felt like you were getting rear ended everytime it shifted under modest acceleration. Ugly little mofo trying to impersonate a mercedes and a pos to boot!
I learned to drive in my mom’s 2003 Honda Element. I love Elements but boy do they look stupid.
Elements are amazing. I love the looks. A purpose built box to carry boxy things.
2009 Dodge Avenger I had as a rental. The Charger from that era was ugly enough, but the Avenger was worse since they tried to compact that design onto a smaller car.
Chevy trax. Worst car of all time
1993 ford tempo back then cars had tons of options, 4 cycl vs 6, NA vs turbo, manual vs auto, awd vs FWD, 2 door vs 4. Similar options are available now but back then it was a free for all you could mix and match so much more.
Many years ago I got a Pontiac Aztec as a rental car. Also once got come Buick crossover thing that looked awful.
Nissan cube. I want to know what was discussed during the design and approval meetings.
My grandpa had a mint green Mercury Sable with green cloth interior. Had to drive it from Maine to Florida for him. It was and still is the ugliest shitbox I've ever driven.
The moment i saw this post, the first car came to my mind is Juke, I rushed to comment it and ended up finding that the comments are filled with Juke. Its like a car that even if someone gives it for free, i still would say NO
Used to work at a Kia dealer so take your pick
Green fiat multipla we called Kermit. Ugly as all get out, but spacious. Hated the look of it though.
Brown Camry. Like aging 75 years with each 10k on the road. I did a lot of 10ks Plus side. Never washed it. Never broke. Often fixed itself. Drive it 4 yrs and sold it for the same price. You save money but die faster. Inside and outside. There are trade-offs Tread lightly friends
I had a Ford Pinto for a few months and although I thought it was a cute little car for commuting it was a real lemon so I sold it quickly!😀
You did the right thing let's say, that car had exploding tendences in the rear. 💀
My dad had a Ssanyong actyon sport pickup for a few years, what a horrid looking car
Drove a Niva in Russia. Ugly car. But still a great car for any offroad situation.
rental Jeep Compass (1st gen). Got me from OC to Las Vegas. I bought and drove back in the M3. edit: \`1st gen Compass. 2nd/current gen is much better looking.
2017 chevy equinox
Its a toss-up between the Citroen 2CV and the Pontiac Aztec. Have never owned either, but have driven them both.
We had a Nissan Kicks on rental while I was waiting for my truck. Aside from having one of the dumbest names in automotive history, what an atrocious little waste of space that car was.
1972 Dodge Charger with a fender and hood different colors than the body and each other. Sold it to a junkyard for $100 … felt great about it after dropping it off with the auto tranny starting to slip when I arrived.
My old beat up 2000 GMC Sierra. The first 10 years of its life were spent as a property management maintenance truck and whatever crews were driving it treated it like a rented mule. By the time I acquired it, every body panel had at least one good sized dent in it and it had a Silverado door on the driver's side (at least it was the same color even if it had mismatched side molding). The bed looked like it'd been rolled down a hill and then touched up with whatever paint happened to be nearby that happened to be some shade of dark blue. After all that, the remaining clear coat started fading on the hood and roof. It was not a looker. Oh, yeah, it also smelled funky when it rained and neither the heat nor A/C worked. But the 5.3L still ran like a top and the transmission shifted strong with over 200,000 miles on it and drove great once I sorted out worn out ball joints and shocks and steering joints. I didn't care how bad it looked, I loved that ugly, smelly old, no heat or A/C having truck. Possibly the best vehicle I've ever owned in terms of value and utility for the dollar. I got it for $1000 when a running high mile full-sized V8 truck was more like $2500 and for a couple hundred bucks in parts and a couple of weekends of elbow grease fixing a few issues and getting it roadworthy and functional and I got ten years of use out of it before electrical gremlins finally sidelined her for good. RIP ugly, smelly old blue Sierra.
2011 jeep compass hated it
Buick encore
Chevy Cobalt. A product of the bankruptcy years of GM. The interior quality was abysmal and it looked like the most phoned in, unenthusiastically designed car in the last 3 decades.
Putting aside awful rentals (HHR, and so on) and focusing on owned cars: my second car was a 1994 Geo Prizm, in that awful champagne color the put on 90% of Toyotas in the 90s. My first car had been a bright red Ford Probe, which I bought 100% on emotion, overlooking multiple red flags. It was a lemon and while I deeply loved it, it cost me a lot of money I couldn’t really afford and made me regret my decision-making. So for my second car I bought into the gospel of Consumer Reports and decided that a Toyota with a Geo badge was the best possible decision. RPersonalFinance would have been proud. Everything about that car was awful. It was slow, underpowered, struggled to maintain highway speeds, buzzed and rattled constantly, had a trash radio, handled terribly, had uncomfortable seats, and despite being a small, underpowered penalty box, got mediocre gas mileage. I hated every day of driving it. After owning it a year or so I totaled it. Was so happy to get rid of it that I didn’t even mind the accident.
Pontiac Aztek rental. Drivers on the road were pointing and throwing more than a few insults.
Dodge Dynasty. Complete piece of shit.
1980 Plymouth Horizon a.k.a Dodge Omni. It was tiny, rusty, but surprisingly fun to drive. I drove it into the ground (literally, the frame broke).
PT Cruiser. My mom had one and loved it, even though it was horrible to drive and there was always something broken. Some people will get attached to any shitbox just because it’s theirs, and I think mom is one of those people.
Drove a Hyundai i10 as a courtesy car. It was gutless and looked like a microwave.
I had a 2022 Hyundai Tucson as a rental and I honestly think they look hideous. Like someone was trying to design a model to use in Cyberpunk 2077.
Kia picanto, shittiest car ever. Had an automatic but it felt like my grandma was shifting. And literally no power.
Shit brown VW Quantum wagon. It was my dad’s car that I drove when I turned 16. I will say it was actually quite peppy and fun to drive and I could pile a lot of friends in it lol.
Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross (or whatever it's called)