Car: Tata Nano
Place on the list: 49
Reason it's BS: The Tata Nano isn't ugly, it's simply space efficient. Given the constraints of price, footprint and upright packaging, it pulls off the microcar shape rather well actually. There are certainly uglier cars on the market in India and China right now.

Car: Ferrari Enzo
Place on the list: 42
Reason it's BS: Save the Enzo's! The Ferrari Enzo wasn't built to win beauty contests, it was designed to showcase Ferrari's F1 racing pedigree and tie those techniques and technologies to their road cars. Form follows function and while it's not classically beautiful it's fast and unique. In any case compared to the Mondial, it's a supermodel.

Car: Plymouth Prowler
Place on the list: 31
Reason it's BS: When the Prowler was introduced in 1997, it was the coolest car on the planet, bar none. Unfortunately it was packed with an engine from an Intrepid, and suspension tuning best described as one-of-a-kind. Despite its glaring flaws and how you might feel about the retro-mod style, it was certainly a car that got people looking. When you spot them today, you turn and look longer than you should, admit it.

Car: Lamborghini LM002
Place on the list: 25
Reason it's BS: BusnessWeek complains about "geometric doors, angular fenders, and a busy hood." Perhaps they forgot it was introduced in 1986 when everything cool was geometric, angular and busy. They don't even mention the fire-breathing (for the 80's) 5.0 liter V12 from the Countach under the hood and the take-no-prisoners attitude. You don't get a moniker like "Rambo Lambo" by being lame.

Car: DeLorean DMC-12
Place on the list: 20
Reason it's BS: Are they joking? The DMC-12? Of any car from the 80's this one still plays well on public streets. The stainless steel body is unique, the ridiculously heavy gullwing doors draw crowds and the fastback style screams 80's coke dealer, and nobody was more up on all things stylish in the 80's than coke dealers.

Car:Subaru Brat
Place on the list: 18
Reason it's BS: Apparently BusinessWeek's too busy adjusting its top hat and monocle to enjoy the finer things in life, like riding in the jump seats in the Subaru Brat's cargo bed. It's even got decent capability for an early soft-roader.

Car: Aston Martin Lagonda
Place on the list: 16
Reason it's BS: Oh come on? Really? The Lagonda? It pushed the limit of longer, lower, wider to absurdity and mixed in out of control braggadocio. By all account it was admittedly every bit British reliable, but who cares? Hire a team of mules to pull it around town as you look out upon the unwashed masses from your obnoxious 80's chariot.

Car:Volvo 240
Place on the list: 13
Reason it's BS: Don't you go messing with the 240 BusinessWeek. You have no idea the depths of Volvo love out there, especially by the boxy-but-trusty 240. We dare you, dare you to find a more dedicated owner base. Fine, it's a bit boring, but so is the Camry and that's not on the list. We actually find it handsome, especially with the quad headlight design. You best watch your back BusinessWeek.

Car: Bricklin SV1
Place on the list: 11
Reason it's BS: Okay, this one's a bit on the ugly side, if you look only at the outside, but it was one of the first cars to push the idea of safety in a sports car, even though because of its heavy construction it wasn't particularly sporty. It's got a logical shape, and the nose is designed to prevent expensive damage repairs. Sure it's a bit cluttered in places, but come on, gull-wing doors.

Car:Chevy El Camino
Place on the list: 1
Reason it's BS: Number one. They've got to be kidding. Two words on this one: Screw. Off. First of all, lumping the entire series into one big pile is just plain ignorant. Secondly, it's rude. The El Camino from the outset was a looker and stayed a dynamite design all the way until the fall in the 70s. But then again, everything was pretty fug in the 70s. If they even try to say the 1960 and 1972 were ugly, they might get a Jalopnik-shaped shoe to the butt.

Photo credit: SuperChevy

Even though I'm visiting freezing-ass lovely Denver right now, I didn't take these shots. Instead, we've got another vintage Subaru found by south Denver's Kitt, who also gave us this red BRAT last summer. The BRAT, whose name was an acronym for the mellifluous "Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter," has mostly disappeared from the earth, but you find pockets of them in places like Colorado. Places where folks like the outdoors, enjoy driving up snow-covered mountains roads, and don't mind riding in the backward-facing bed seats that transformed the early BRATs into cars, exempting them from the 25% Chicken Tax that made trucks so lucrative for Detroit. Actually, this BRAT appears to be from the post-jumpseat BRAT era, when lawsuits forced Subaru to ditch the extra seats and sell their little pickup as a truck.

1992 GEO STORM "THE THUNDERSTORM"

DUE TO THE RECENT PASTING OF MY BELOVED HUSBAND, I HAVE FOR YOUR BIDDING PLEASURE. THE "THUNDERSTORM." THE THUNDERSTORM WAS HIS PRIDE AND JOY. WHERE HE SPENT MANY HOURS WORKING ON IT AND TAKING IT TO CAR SHOWS. THE STORM AS WE WILL CALL IT. THE STORM IS GARAGE KEEP, WITH CAR COVER DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR IT. IT STILL SMELLS LIKE A NEW CAR !! AND DOES NOT HAVE A BLEMISH ON IT. THE STORM WAS KEPT AND USED FOR SHOW PURPOSES ONLY. SINCE IT WAS DRIVEN ONLY TO AND FROM CAR SHOWS, IT ONLY HAS 37,803 ACTIUAL MILES AND IS IN EXCELLENT MECHANICAL CONDITION. DRIVES AND RUNS WELL. NO PROBLEMS WHAT SO EVER. EQUIPPED WITH A KENWOOD AM/FM CD. IT IS TITLED AS A 1992 GEO STORM

HISTORY OF THE STORM: CUSTOM MADE BY: DONNIE DOWNS OF SECTION ALABAMA. THIS MAN IS A TRUE DESIGNER AND MASTER MECHANIC. IT CAN BE SAID THAT HE IS A LEGEND IN HIS OWN TIME. THE STORM CONTAINS FLIP UP SUN ROOF AND REAR SLIDING WINDOWS, ELECTIC ANTENIA, ENGINE CONTAINS "LOTS OF CROME", BECAUSE OF THE LIMIT OF PICTURES, THERE WAS ALSO A PICTURE OF GEORGE JONES "THE POSSUM" AND A LOCAL NEWS MEDIA PERSON, BODY COLORS: GEO WHITE/GEO COBALT BLUE, COMPILING OVER 22 CAR PARTS:

1. 1992 GEO STORM, 2. 1985 SUBARU BRAT REAR, 3. 1972 MALIBU WHEELS (GEO CENTERS), 4. 1970 CHEVELLE HOOD SCOOP 5. 1990 FORD ESCORT REAR BUMPER, 6. 1987 TOYOTA TRUCK (SPACE TIRE LIFT), 7. 1992 CHEVY CALVALIER (BOW TIES) 8. 1987 TOYOTA TRUCK(SPACE TIRE LIFT) 9. 1985 FORD RANGER FUEL PUMP, 10. 1967 CHEVY IMPALA (TAXI) HUB CAPS, 11. 1990 CHEVY S-10 BLAZER (POWER HATCH) 12. 1987 HONDA ACCORD POWER RADIO ANTENIA 13. 1992 GEO STORM (PLATIUM ROCKER CORNER) POLISHED 14. 1992 STORM FENDERS R-L AFTER MARKET, 17. 1991 STORM HEADLAMPS (USED) 18. 1992 STORM RADIATOR SUPPORT (USED) 19. 1992 STORM WINDSHIELD (NEW), 20 WHEEL SPINNERS (AFTER MARKET) 21. 1991 STORM REMOTE CONTROL ARM 22. AFTER MARKET GROUND EFFECTS

Thanks to Chris for the tip [Source: eBay]

There's probably no flag-draped car currently more familiar than the Subaru Brat from My Name Is Earl, which ironically had seats put in the bed to counteract pro-American trade sanctions on Japanese trucks. [IMDCB]

See the rest of our Jalopnik Auto Flag-Elation here and check out our pre-Fourth Jalopnik Automotive Amerigasm here.

The acronym behind the Subaru BRAT's name stood for "Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter," which doesn't sound as good as "Leonamino," but we can't fault the marketers for going with the safe bet. The whole concept of sticking a truck bed on the Leone and then throwing some lawsuit-magnet jumpseats in the bed in order to claim carhood and avoid the Chicken Tax didn't work out so well for Subaru in the long run, though you might want to retrofit such seats onto this 1986 BRAT ('86 was the first year the vehicle arrived on these shores without the extra seats). One think you won't need to retrofit, however, is the T-tops, because that critically important option is present and accounted for in this truck, which can be yours simply by trading "almost anything as long as i like it" to the owner. There's rust. There are many dents. It's been sitting for a long time. You know, the usual. How about swapping in a turbocharged EJ25 and giving your jumpseat passengers the last best road trip of their lives?

We like the BRAT, but maybe your 80s Subaru Hell Project needs less cute and more weird. How about a car with TR7-esque wedge-shaped styling and an interior designed to resemble the cockpit of a 747? Yes, we're talking about the Subaru XT, which was available with a six-cylinder, all-wheel-drive setup that was pretty damn wild for its time. These things aren't easy to find, but we've done the work for you by locating this 1989 Subaru XT6 for just $500. Five hundred bucks! How can you lose? This one needs both head gaskets replaced (possible translation: both heads cracked), but it's had $2,000 worth of "recent parts" installed. There's rust. We suggest getting really good head gaskets when you start working on this project, because this car is just crying out for all the boost your wallet you can stuff into the engine!

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What car makes you dream of summer? For me it has to be my father's old Subaru Brat, which served its purpose as a beach car/truck until it was determined that it wasn't the ideal car for a growing family. Somehow, the ideal car for a growing family was an Isuzu Impulse. Go figure.