Ugly but Cool

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Some cars are ugly but cool at the same time.
My personal preference (big surprise) Daimler Dart
also I think the Austin Atlantic qualifies, and the Panhard Dyna,
but notable failures include the Fiat Multipla & Triumph Mayflower
I'm not sure about the Austin Metropolitan

Suggestions please

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I like this,

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I quite like these, but I'm not sure how cool it is



Possibly an ugly car can only be cool if it's powerful

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looking google images for Panhard Dyna, I found this beaut

Panhard Dynavia, definately want one

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One is One isn't

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mph said:

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One is One isn't

Is the top one an Allard by Gould or someone similar ?

They're both Allards, one a typical V8 beastie and the other is the Allard Clipper

Wickepedia says:
"Allard, better known for light sports cars produced a pilot run of around twenty glass-fibre bodied three-wheeled Clipper microcars in 1953-1954. They had a rear mounted Villiers 24B 346cc single-cylinder two-stroke motorbike engine driving the rear left wheel via a Burman gearbox and chain.
The car was designed by David Gottlieb and was advertised as having an 'indestructible' plastic body made by Hordern-Richmond Ltd.
It was the first ever car to have a plastic body.[2] and seated three adults on a bench seat and two children in optional 'dickey seats' revealed when the rear boot was opened.[3]
Cooling difficulties and driveshaft weakness made the Clipper very unreliable and the project was not continued "

Don't know about 3 adults and 2 kids and 346cc. Last car to have a dickey seat, one only left in the UK

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nicanary said:

Sorry, that didn't come out...

the essence of what I meant.
Early Bristols up to 406 or so are good. 409's onword just too big to be cool

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no no NO NO!!!

there all ugly and deeply uncool and undesirable

but especially the 2CV which has never been cool with anyone other than hippy sociology teachers and people that think tofu is food!!!! They need to be crushed (with their hippy owners inside hopefully)



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You're missing the point, Cool was the wrong word to use, We're not talking cool as in Top Gear Cool Wall.
We're talking "get all the proportions so wrong and ugly that it becomes wacky and unusual and therefore desirable",
The R4 and 2CV both fail, not because of the stereotypes, but because the R4 doesn't look wacky enough and the 2CV is too familiar.
Quirky design is good and so is rarity, performance helps, but is not essential.

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I want one, it's a backwards Dart

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nicanary said:

The Alfa Junior is quite pretty by modern Zagato standards. I'd forgotten how weird some of their creations have been, using cool cars as a basis, and then wrecking their desirability...

I finf it strange that a company lookand style, such as Zagato have, can still be quite recognisable 50 years later.

Regarding cars looking like fish, here's the Daimler Grouper



And before anyone says, yes the grill is non standard