List your favorite cars that aren't 'pretty' or 'good looking'

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While beauty is subjective and in the eye of the beholder, there are certain standards of beauty or looks that the majority can agree upon. This goes for people and the same can be said for cars.

So which cars do you particularly like that are considered NOT good looking/pretty/cool by yourself and/or the vast majority of other ppl. You may really like this car because of its other abilities, character, heritage or history. Feel free to explain your reasons why you like it.

Let's keep this discussions to cars only, no SUVs, trucks, crossover vehicles. Plenty of those have coolness and aren't pretty.

And for those of you who cannot like a car unless its good looking, I feel sorry for your narrow-mindedness

Most of mine fall under the realm of rally cars which have amazing abilities but frankly look like tarted up crap

MG Metro 6R4

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Impreza WRX Sti (GC/GD generations) - cool cars and I've owned one myself but frankly, they're ugly cars and if they didn't have the abilities they did, ppl would avoid them on looks alone, except for ghetto ricer kids

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Lancia Delta S4 - a monstrouly powerful and fast car thats twin forced induction, but a blocky visual mess

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Nissan Cube - quirky and compact yet a lot of space/utility for its size and actually pretty decent to drive around town (esp the current model which I've driven)

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For a car in the spirit of the thread, the original Lotus Europa. Even though I think it looks fantastic, that might be colored by how much joy it brought me in one of the Gran Turismos.

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I would do unspeakable things for a nice one in the JPS colors.
 
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I totally agree on the Lancia.
And i would like to add the Ford RS200
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Come on, look at it, it ain't pretty.
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I have a thing for shitboxes. I wanted to import one into Australia, but I couldn't unless it was registered as a historic car (only drive it on club days) and reliability would be a bit of an issue.
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The Alfa SZ
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I love Citroens.
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E110 Corolla. Everyone hates these, but I don't think any other car has this good of a mix of fuel efficiency, reliability, comfort, and, arguably, performance (during it's production, it was more powerful than the Civic).

It's a perfect commuter car, but anytime the word "Corolla" is mentioned, most people think it's just a piece of shit, but it just isn't.
 
Most Aussies and otherwise, don't seem to like the first HSV.

The HSV VL SS Group A SV. In other words, a Walkinshaw.

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However, even standard they sound mean and go hard. And the looks are so crazy, it's good.
 
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E110 Corolla. Everyone hates these, but I don't think any other car has this good of a mix of fuel efficiency, reliability, comfort, and, arguably, performance (during it's production, it was more powerful than the Civic).

It's a perfect commuter car, but anytime the word "Corolla" is mentioned, most people think it's just a piece of shit, but it just isn't.

I don't, love those things, actually thinking of getting one as my next car but given the choice i would have the Pre-facelift E110:

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Since we are on the subject of not pretty cars that i love

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I like it because it's one of the last easy, simple, light small cars in which you are seated low, in contrast to today's econoboxes where you feel you sit in a van.
 
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(actually want one^^)
 
Actually, the Accent and the Grand Prix are pretty handsome. I won't call them especially great, but they're relatively good looking.
 
The Miata is very pretty?
 
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