That grille should come in handy if you're cutting carbs

/triple entendre

At least paint it flat black to hide some of the ugly...

Brutally Banglized Veyron?

Have some in common with the Bimmers, this edgy curving thing is something i can´t appreciate

Kidding aside, I would be fascinated to read the case for that front end, as it doesn't conform at all to (rudimentary) understanding of aerodynamics.

I do like the PS2 steering wheel though.

It's "Life Goes On" the automotive version.

Goggles. They do nothing.

Nice hood, what is that: ass-print surfacing?

Nope. I like it. It's the craziest looking car I've ever seen and it's sweet.

Someone, somewhere thinks this car is beautiful. But I can't for the life of me understand why.

This thing may be fast and powerful, but I think it needs to go faster than 250MPH to outrun its own ugliness.

@Bumblebee: The concave hood surface seems counterintuitive aerodynamically and is definitely offensive aesthetically. Also, anyone know the displacement of this supposed 900hp TT V8, or where the engine is sourced from?

It's... different. Not for me but it has some interesting features. Do I see a two-piece windshield that is concave in the middle?

@BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ: I agree, shouldn't chris Bangle be tried for crimes against humanity?

Honey, I melted the Veyron!

There are ugly cars, and then there is this thing.

Buying this thing to park next to is not the most cost-effective way to make your Edsel look better.

Hey Meg, did you get less ugly?

Who slapped an R8 with the ugly stick?

It's another new car from Faw Auto in China called the Lashit!

Roomba's angry, kids-in-the-dungeon creepy uncle!

The makers of the Vidalia onion slicer want their grill back.

Basically, what happened here, is every normally convex surface on an automobile was made concave.

And that's not good.

Comment on Weber Sportscar Faster One Makes Eyes Bleed Twin Turbo? Looks like twin screw superchargers in the pic to me... -Cam

Proving there is no correlation between wealth and taste.

I don't see the exhaust plumbing for the turbos. Looks like it's supercharged, or I'm just an idiot.

@cyclopticgaze: Yep. Looks like two superchargers.

I bet its still ugly when it blows by at 250 mph.

It's like someone sucked the air out of it, and it started to implode.

Which fits, since it's sucking my will to live...

Dear Lord this is an ugly car.

I love it. Ugly as sin, but goes like stink. It's designed to do one thing, and one thing only. I'll give you a hint: It's not look good.

You've got to admire their work ethic, though. They knew what they wanted and they ran with it.

@Jon: Dyson vacuum-formed

@Mike the Dog: So what you are sying is that this car is not faster than the "speed of ugly."

Hmm, that sounded funnier in my head.

I can only imagine its looks are based on hard science that sets the drag coefficient so low it slips through time and space. Nobody said science was pretty. However, I'll have to go with the styling of Doc Brown for my choice of time space warpage. Nobody wants to pop up in the 50's looking like they're driving a transvestite.

QOTD suggestion:
What is your favorite ugly fast car?

I'll go for the low hanging fruit and nominate the new GT-R.

I used to work in a record store. On my first day, the manager took me to the center of the store and gave a theatrical wave of his hand to sweep over the store's inventory. Then he said, "Every single one of these albums is somebody's favorite. Respect that."

For some reason, it's easier for me to take the high ground when the target is so defenseless. Sure the baby's ugly, but his Mom's right there, smiling, so you smile too. As much as I want to love this car for being the product of somebody's (or several somebodies') tireless labor and uncompromising vision, I just can't. Practically every variable is wrong. It looks like the designers channeled a 350Z and stuck a Z4 tail on it. The width of the car is exaggerated by the center concavity. The rear wheels look like they were patterned after spools of thread. The company's signature "moustache" grille looks even worse in black than it did in chrome--and it makes the red badge look like a zit.

There's no doubt that this will be in somebody's fantasy garage. It wouldn't be in mine if it could travel through time.

Looking at the pictures of the running gear with no body on it proves that even though beauty is more than skin deep; a significant coating of ugly will all but assure the beauty doesn't show.

@Skydiver: This is my favorite for the reason you list: It's not in yours. Aesthetics are the last thing I look for. I'm an engineer, it's all about the numbers.

This year's Aztek Award for Automotive Design Incometence goes to........

Looks like one of my photoshops

I dub this the Louis Cyr: Not since the late 1800s has such power been combined with such an awesome mustache:

So, Weber makes better looking barbeques than cars?

Still, someone's gotta inheret the Mosler legacy.

I rather like the wheels, and the um...did I say wheels yet? How about the...um, well the wheels are pretty cool.

The front of that thing just makes me think...

Remember Remember the fifth of November...

@OldeEnglishD: Incompetence.

D'oh!

i must say i'm rather excited to see a purely functional car this brutally ugly. finally something to make a solid case against those who say car designers are obsolete, and CFD alone should sculpt the cars of the future.
(i'm crossing my fingers and hoping that nobody brings up the aptera typ-1).
@Unevolved: Whoop!: grow a soul, man!

@fr9kl: addendum: which isn't to say the aptera is the only car out there that emphasizes functionality while looking purty, or that functional means ugly. i find almost all the new closed-cockpit LMPs beautiful.

It's a simple yet brilliant concept. The faster it is, the less we have to see of it, the higher the chances it has of slamming into a tree at 600mph so the equally ugly parts are mercifully unrecognizable. Along with the poor driver, for whom there's no sympathy because he was daft enough to buy the ugly thing in the first place.

@fr9kl: Yeah, when people say things like "form follows function" or some other similar drivel, I always think to myself, form IS a function.

Am I the only one to think they installed the steering wheel upside down? The video game buttons in the center of the steering wheel are terrible.

And hahaha, that GRAPE STOMP video is of a Fox5 Atlanta reporter at the Chateau Elan, which is a big mansion/winery/hotel/resort northeast of Atlanta....owned and run by the Panoz family, who of course owns the nearby Road Atlanta as well.

Like that Japanese plastic clam car from a few months back, this is another one from the new "looks like something dredged from the bottom of a toxic swamp" school of styling.

Nice radio bud! Is that a Blaupunkt Miami?

This honestly looks like something I drew 13 years ago when I was learning CAD.. and not intentionally.. I was just learning the tool and seriously screwed up the front, it had the same camel toe and everything.