You guys are looking at it all wrong. People with no sense of taste buy these cars. Why would Nissan go to the trouble of making a pretty car, if it's wasted on someone who doesn't care.
Plenty of orange women with massive frog-eyed sunglasses will eat these right up.
That implies making a decent looking car is harder than making an ugly one. Having people get sick in your showroom when they see your car can't be good for business.
They don't look at it, just buy it because it's the new thing.
The first one of those I see on the streets I will kill with fire, literaly!
I don't care if I go to jail, sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do......
Just found this from the 1987 Tokyo auto salon
https://pic.armedcats.net/c/cr/crazyrussian540/2010/02/15/1987_Nissan_Judo_concept_01.jpg
Headlights look familiar?
Its a Nissan Judo