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Meet the Peugeot Bipper Tepee. That’s right, Bipper Tepee. Volkswagen, take notice: the weird name bar has been raised. [via Autocar]
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I thought Ford’s cars were the reason it was gaining market share in Europe, maybe its the competition’s.
It looks like a new Scion- hideous
The name is the most normal thing about this…this…this…thing. *shudder*
It makes my 05 xB look like a Ferrari.
It’s the design Ford rejected for the Transit Connect.
Peugeot has a death wish, and so they hired the vehicle naming guy from VW.
Peugeot has completely lost its design competence. The 406 family was the last with a decent appearance.
Move over Aztek, you’ve got competition for the world’s ugliest car.
Citröen has a version and Fiat too, the last one is called Kubo.
And Peugeot has a Panther Tepee
What else do you expect from a people who think that Jerry Lewis is a genius?
Bipper is a slang term for male genitalia and Tepee describes an erection while wearing boxer shorts.
And the name is the least weird thing about this thingee. I mean, wow.
This car is the passenger version of a commercial van built in Turkey by Fiat for Peugeot (Bipper), Citroën (Nemo) and Fiat (Fiorino). It’s one size smaller than the Ford Transit Connect.
The “Tepee” suffix is also part of the name of passenger versions of the Peugeot Partner and Peugeot Expert commercial vans.
Actually, when it comes to commercial vans, PSA and Fiat share their models (except the Peugeot Partner/Citroën Berlingo on one side and Fiat Dobló on the other are not related to each other) :
– Peugeot Bipper/Citroën Nemo/Fiat Fiorino -> made in Turkey by Fiat
– Peugeot Expert/Citroën Jumpy/Fiat Scudo -> made in France by PSA
– Peugeot Boxer/Citroën Jumper/Fiat Ducato -> made in Italy by Fiat
The passenger version of the Fiorino (and twin of the Bipper Tepee) is the Fiat Qubo.
thirty-three :
Move over Aztek, you’ve got competition for the world’s ugliest car.
Naaaahhh, that thing is weird but aceptable. Go and see a 1st gen Fiat Multipla (from the 90’s).
Even the Aztek looks nice besides that thing.
@iceracer: hardly anyone would get an erection with that car. But I guess that with the space inside, an erection can be used very well to generate some orgasms
Bipper Tepee is the perfect name for this thing.
It looks like this vehicle has some blind spots in the rear quarters to go along with its homely look.So much for function over beauty.
Acura, take note: the ugly bar has also been raised.
Man, that looks like an xB with anorexia. Good lord!
@Stingray
You could say this Peugeot gives new meaning to the term “headroom”. I guess they gave it this name because it can hold alot of “junk”. In Canada they will have to call it Allure!
Talking about raising the bar. I thought Scion made the world’s ugliest cars. But I’m glad that the French were up to the challange and are back on top, just like in the 50/60’s! The more things change….
I love it! It is cute and looks practical.
Everything doesn’t have to look like a tired and impractical BMW 4 door sedan.
I think y’all need to lighten up a bit. It’s ugly, but in an intentional way. The sightlines look good, and it looks very practical with the sliding doors and tall box. So what if it doesn’t look like an Audi or Honda sedan?
I’d probably give one a test drive if it were available in the US and I was shopping for something in that class. It looks to be about the same size as the xB, and I think it looks better and is probably more useful.
If you take a look at their site, you’ll see that they intended it to be goofy-looking. “Playful” is the word they use, and I can see that.
(Disclaimer: I own a Honda Element. While I think it’s ugly, it’s also the most useful car I’ve owned. Many people wouldn’t even consider getting one based on how it looks, and I think they’re missing out)
We were only just making fun of the Scions, but those cars actually had clean lines and decent proportions. This car, unfortunately, has neither.
My bipper is not getting a tepee when I look at this thing.
I have heard some Japanese home market model names that are at least as bizarre as this one.
It’s easier and quicker to say what’s right with this picture; eh… it’s in focus and the lighting is adequate.
Is that Tepee as in “I gotta go..Tepee” or Tepee as in a native American moblie home? “Bipper” shounds like a contraction of “Bi-polar” which also could explain the design. It’s name seems to be just as much a nonsensical amalgam as the car is an eclectic mix of design cue non sequitur’s.
Makes you wonder what their focus groups looked like.
This is what happens when the designer has to play with a CAD design. The beginning might be OK’ish: driven by internal capacity requirements. Then along come the safety folk and tell the designer it has to pass all the pedestrian impact rules so the front gets dragged and dropped in the CAD tool…then the parts bin people turn up and tell you about cost reductions and other tweaks follow and voila! Fugly happens.
the French have a long way to go to beat the Japanese on strange car names like Nissan Bluebird Sylphy.
Ahhhhhhhh! My eeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeesssss!
(The horror. The horror.)
I don’t care if this thing is an engineering marvel, gets 150 to the gallon, pulling .95 on the skidpad, with a top-speed of 180mph……based solely on its COMPLETE and utter lack of any kind of aesthetics (in short, it DEFINES fugly), it will be an annual nominee for a TWAT award
I actually prefer the early Fiat Multipla! That was ugly, but there was something sort of amusing about its homeliness. This is ugly without the fun.
I think its those big gray bumper end growths that take away its fun/ugly and give it a sort of disease/ugly.
It’s growing on me…
As in: OMFG! Get me to the hospital! It’s growing on me! Get it off me!
Good bumpers for parking by braille though.
Kinda’ like a fungus thriving in and upon one’s mucous membranes the design grows upon you.
I keep staring at the picture, waiting for it to Transform. Into Killer Stomping Death-Ray Armed Robot. C’mon….Transform! I’ve waited long enough. That isn’t seriously Just A Car???!
You’re kidding, right? And it isn’t something that escaped from some manga in Japan….it’s…French?
Will I ever be able to trust the French with Champagne and Bordeaux after this? If this is what they call a car, you might pop a cork and find Gatorade.
Move the door handles up to the top of the doors so they are at least belt high when you walk up to it.
“Tipper Bepee” would be a more apropos name. “Tipper,” because with a center of gravity like that, the body roll must be nausea-inducing. “Bepee” is for the sound cars near this vehicle will be making. Cars behind the Tipper Bepee will be honking because it will likely be equipped with a 1 gerbilpower engine to haul it around. Cars to the front and sides of the Bepee will be honking because…well, look at it.
To quote Top Gear: there is no reason for anyone to own a Peugeot.
Two guys with wire-ties could come up to one of those stopped at a traffic light and tie the door handles together. What a design…you could t. p. it and it wouldn’t look any worse.
If they changed the paint colour to that of vomit, the car would look worse. And that’s ALL they could do to make it look worse.
I shall call you the Turk McGirt.
Finally, a car that makes my Element look positively stylish. Is hell freezing over?
Perhaps when you use submersibles for your design cues, you come up with crap like this.
At least Leno has company now.
I was certain that it was the new Fiat-sourced replacement for the PT Cruiser?, Dodge Caliber?, Jeep Compass?, Jeep Patriot,? Dodge Journey?
Hmm. All this teeth-gnashing, all this wailing about a fairly innocuous car just because it looks odd. There is a French tradition of designing cheap but highly functional cars. Take as examples the Citroen HY or the Renault R4. They look strange but get enthusiastic praise from those like Setright who are educated about cars.
This is a car from a segment that before the Transit Connect did not exist in the US: the small parcel van. (I can only speculate that American chassic designers would be overtaxed with the job of making that kind of truck driveable yet economical). It’s difficult to design something distinctive yet useful for a vehicle that has to be short and tall. Especially when there are no loopholes for pedestrian protection.
If you want a nice looking Peugeot just look at the 407 Coupé.
http://www.autosvit.com.ua/gallery/image/Peugeot_407_coupe_2005_3.jpg
I don’t care if this thing … (pulls) .95 on the skidpad
That’s probably the Cd.
ttacgreg :
I have heard some Japanese home market model names that are at least as bizarre as this one.
You bet, there’s the Nissan Moco. Moco is bugger in spanish.
Or Nissan Laputa… which is the whore, also in spanish. In this case you have to use some Chevy Nova separation as No Va… La Puta. LOL
@Martin Schwoerer Hmm. All this teeth-gnashing, all this wailing about a fairly innocuous car just because it looks odd. There is a French tradition of designing cheap but highly functional cars. Take as examples the Citroen HY or the Renault R4. They look strange but get enthusiastic praise from those like Setright who are educated about cars.
Actually have to disagree with you here Martin, this car is an unsightly mess, utterly inhmane in its appeal to the blind. Does every small car concept now have as a requisite a Roger Rabbit cartoon front end?