Get a bunch of car journalists together and a few conversations are inevitable. Stuff like, "What's the best car ever, period?" or "What's the dumbest car you've ever purchased?" The answers are full of variation (Porsche 959/McLaren F1, Citroen DS/BMW 750iL) and typically end with me asking, "Aren't you guys interested in anything besides cars?" Deaf ears and all that. My point? If the question of world's ugliest car were to come up, there can be no debate. Mitsuoka Orochi is the answer. All other suggestions are utterly wrong. And Motor Authority tells us that, like some latter-day Godzilla, left-hand drive examples of the Orochi are leaving Japan to fry eyeballs in Qatar, UAE, Thailand and Jordon. No, really — look at this monstrosity. What could be more awful? How an NSX-based sports car can make the Pontiac Aztek look like Jessica Biel is inconceivable, incomprehensible and totally unfathomable, but there you go. As for me, I'm stocking up on Raid.
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It looks like Godzilla stepped on a Buick LaCrosse.
It looks like the offspring of a spaceship that mated with a Buick. Are those little teeth in the front grille?
I thought it was a Dodge
Plunk Speed Racer behind the wheel and you’re good to go.
Finally, an answer to that age old question: What Would H.R. Geiger Drive?
Looks like Aquaman’s land ride.
Oh it ain’t that bad. Would you rather this or an Aztek? Seriously, now?
…nevermind, I just lost the taste for seafood.
It does look Mach Five-ish, except for the piranha teeth. Paging Racer-X.
I’ve seen worse than Orochi’s handiwork. The road hugging proportions alone are enough to give the ugly crown to Aztek.
You think the front is ugly. Look at the rear.
http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/concept_cars/mitsuoka_orochi.html
RoweAS:
Exactly.
it’s definitely ugly but it ain’t the ugliest …
There are so many truly ugly cars. I don’t think this one is a real hall of fame type ugly car. The details are bad, but the basic shape isn’t. You could fix it.
What we need is an ugly car contest. I nominate the AMC Gremlin.
Shell casings, ammo found in Gremlin, court documents show By Brian McNeill of the Media General News Service on March 28, 2008:
Police probing the Interstate 64 shootings have found small-caliber cartridge casings inside an abandoned 1975 AMC Gremlin and believe the shooter used a .22-caliber firearm, according to court documents.
One search warrant authorized the search of an orange 1974 AMC Gremlin with a black stripe, which was found abandoned late Thursday off U.S. 29 in Albemarle County near the Greene County border.
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A similar vehicle was spotted early Thursday by security cameras at the DuPont Community Credit Union on Lucy Lane in Waynesboro.
According to the search warrant, the camera’s tape shows two people inside the Gremlin, which was positioned in the bank’s parking lot. The footage shows one of the occupants fire a gun into a parked vehicle’s rear window. …
How about ‘Beautiful ugly’ as they say in modelling?!
I nominate any 1958 Oldsmobile
There is one uglier car.. eh, variant.
http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/concept_cars/mitsuoka_orochi_nude.html
Is it ugly? Yes. But is it any uglier than name-any-Chrysler-product-here? Hell no.
What can say, only a Mother could love.
But we never know, maybe a small market exists for these cars.
I think it’s a good looking car underneath all the tacky costume jewelry, which ruins it. The lines are smooth and it’s well very proportioned, as it would have to be being based on an NSX. Besides, when it comes to ugliness, it can’t hold a candle to a Multipla:
http://www.humans.com/pages/images/multipla.jpg
or worse, a Ssangyong Rodius:
http://www.pistonheads.com/pics/news/12107/ssong-yang_rodius-L.jpg
If you get rid of the silly grill, the “ports” on the hood and the wierd stuff on the doors, it’s actually a nice shape, somewhat organic and definitely aquatic. Assuming those changes, it’s a better-looking car than the standard NSX which, to me, has always looked like more like a hallucinogenic Prelude than an exotic car.
tack on a couple of 50’s style round headlights on the fenders and a bullet nose in the center of the grill and the front becomes strongly reminiscent of a squashed ’51 Studabaker…or am I just being middle-aged weird?
I think it’s not bad the way it is, and could be very good with a bit of tweaking. I’d loose the hood blisters, and make the grill a bit more oval in shape.
This is a long long way from the ugliest car ever.
dodge nitro is soo bad along with mitsubishi triton and chrysler crossfire
also the astra drop top
>>left-hand drive examples of the Orochi are leaving >>Japan to fry eyeballs in Qatar, UAE, Thailand and >>Jordon.
Thailand is a right-hand drive market. Not sure about Jordon, though. Might it be the same as in Jordan?
>>How an NSX-based sports car can make the Pontiac >>Aztek look like Jessica Biel is inconceivable,
The Orochi is on a bespoke platform, and is powered by a Toyota engine.
It’s goofy looking, sure. But I think it blows past ugly and goes more into “just plain odd”. You’re too busy noticing how strange the car looks to pay attention to it being ugly.
It’s the Insect Car!
C’mon folks – it’s not THAT bad… Like a previous poster mentioned – the basic shape is good, the details are a problem.
Admiral Akbar from Star Wars would love this car.