These Are The Ugliest Engine Bays

Yeah, I know it doesn’t look that bad. But here’s the problem. If you remove that engine cover? You’ve removed part of your air intake.

Give me a bunch of exposed wires and hoses ANY DAY over a design that makes it near impossible to properly work on a vehicle just to make it look neater.

Suggested by: Shortyoh

It still amazes me to this day how Ford engineers made massive six and seven liter V8 and V10 engines accessible in such a narrow engine bay.

Suggested by: H4llelujah

2003-2004 (Y34) M45. You take that engine cover off and it’s downright gross.

Suggested by: Sideways the Seven

My vote is any diesel pickup truck. You’ll need an engineering degree, journeyman’s license, and pluming expertise just to be able to start a diagnoses.

Suggested by: Gtferrari

A spare tire in the engine bay is nasty work. Russian auto engineers must hate mechanics.

Suggested by: ikaiyoo

Anything with a V12 should be exotic and exciting, but you wouldn’t know it from what looks like a wiring diagram threw up in your Jaguar’s engine bay.

Suggested by: Maymar

Almost any post-emission control, pre-computer chipped V8 equipped car, so pretty much anything from 1970 through the late ‘80s.

I remember having to navigate a maze of wires and vacuum hoses on my aunt’s Pontiac Parisienne just to change the spark plugs.

Suggested by: Earthbound Misfit I

The ‘97 Tahoe I had didn’t look very good but you could see the engine and there wasn’t a bunch of wires, pretty ugly though.

Suggested by: wintimidator

Anything from the late 80s to 90s, with a surplus of retrofitted hoses hiding everything, before we figured out how to build clean running engines from clean sheet designs.

Suggested by: Rick Cavaretti

Under the Bronco’s handsome, rugged good looks hides a mess of an engine bay. We’re not asking for some fancy plastic cover Ford, but clean it up at least. Geez.

Suggested by: FijiST