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10 Ugly Cars of the World

Some cars are loved for their good looks but there are some cars in the world that are ugly. Their looks do not entice us and people think twice before they go for car-shopping.

Carazoo.com has given you the list of the Top 10 Most Beautiful Cars of the World before. Now, we bring you the list of ten ugly cars. It has to be noted that Carazoo.com picked up not more than one ugly model from a given automaker. Though these cars are ugly, some of them are actually reliable and fun to drive. Since we are talking about looks as the primary basis, every last one of them is a sinfully ugly car. The ugly cars on our list have very different legacies. Some retreated in shame after just a couple of years of ridicule, while others indifferently became automotive legends. These ten cars have a common thread and that's the utter lack of beauty they each possess.

1. Pontiac Aztek

The Pontiac Aztek can kill you with its looks literally, but yes ugly looks. It is voted as the ugliest looking my many. Even though the car fits the bill as a crossover SUV, the style execution went horribly, horribly wrong. Will the currently scorned Aztek find a little love in future? Time will tell. But for now, it's our ultimate ugly car.

2. Citroen 2CV

Don't get us wrong, we recognize the historical significance of the Citroen 2CV. We also happen to love it; it's some of the most fun you'll ever have at near-stationary speeds. But it's an ugly car. Looks were far down the list of objectives in developing the car. Putting postwar France on rugged, cheap, reliable wheels was the goal. With the French production spanning four decades, from 1948 to 1988, that goal was surely met. It'll always be remarkably ugly, but it's also going to be an eternal automotive icon.

3. Dodge Rampage

The Dodge Rampage is ugly. The Rampage lived a very short life, from 1982 to '84, but ugliness, slowness, flimsiness and front-wheel drive (considered useless in a pickup) sealed its fate as an ugly car forever.

4. Suzuki X-90

This SUV is not only ugly, but everything about it is bad. It lacked any serious off-road potential and it was an unstable, rough ride on road. A magazine advertisement at the time intended to play up the Suzuki X-90 ugliness as attitude; the header screamed, "What are you looking at?" A decade later, we still don't have an answer.

5. Chevrolet Lumina APV

Chevy began the '90s with its Lumina APV, or All Purpose Vehicle. If those purposes included aesthetically spoiling the landscape, mission accomplished. Feature-rich, but slow and ugly, the debacle lasted a full six years before Chevy got the hint. Called "Dustbusters" by some, these minivans always reminded us of shrunken, de-winged space shuttles -- especially when painted white.

6. Subaru Baja

Comebacks are tricky. The funky Subaru Brat (1978-1993) should have remained just that, but became the Baja, the abomination. From 2003 to '06, Subaru saw fit to fight for the thin slice of ugly pie already shared between the Chevrolet Avalanche and Ford Explorer Sport Trac. Looking like two-thirds of an Outback wagon after an industrial accident, it didn't help that most Bajas came encased with silver plastic bulging from the lower half of the vehicle.

7. Fiat Strada

Some of the greatest icons of trends and styles are Italians. Yet the Fiat Strada is enough to make you "forget about it." From 1978 to '82, this Bertone design visually assaulted US roads at a modest pace. As one of the first cars to be largely built by robots (complete with an ad campaign that emphasized this), you can understand why human eyes were kept from repetitive close-range views. Underneath this ugly car's body was a running gear that was lifted from the Fiat 128. It was by no means revolutionary or rapid, but at least it held together OK.

8. AMC Eagle

The AMC Eagle that ran from 1980 to '88 guarantees your place in hell. Never mind that it set the stage for future all-wheel drive cars, this was a cowboy stew of a car that spoiled much too quickly. Nothing about it was fresh from day one, it was just a mash-up of already-aged components under a choice of severely, unlovely body styles.

9. Datsun B210

It's hard to believe that this ugly car came from the same company that wowed us with the 240Z. The reliable, fuel-efficient Datsun B210 was the little car that could -- and did from 1973 through 1978, despite its ugly facade. The companion two- and four-door models didn't look much better either. You were actually happy when they rusted, since that meant there was less of the car to appall the senses. The fact that this ugly car solidified Datsun's popularity in the US underscores just how well this car ran, despite its hideous looks.

10. Chrysler PT Cruiser Convertible

The original four-door PT Cruiser may be well into its 11th hour of retro appeal, but at least it isn't outright ugly like this ragtop. Whereas chopping off a roof usually makes a car more appealing, MOPAR managed to kill whatever appeal the donor had when they answered the question that nobody asked in 2005. It may aid stiffness and safety, but the basket-like handle behind the doors lends considerably to the mess, and solidifies the PT Cruiser Convertible's entry on our countdown of ugly cars.