My eyes! What did I see?

[pincher]

Sitting in traffic yesterday, I saw an utter monstrosity of a car go past on the back of an AA truck - it looked like the bd child of a Nissan Primera and a Suzuki Jimny - a hatchback with a hideous rectangle stuck on the boot.

A little like a cross between this



and this



I'm pretty sure someone will know what it was - please enlighten me, so I know to avoid dealerships selling that make of car!

[onesickpuppy]

BMW 5 GT?

[trashbat]

?

[pincher]

trashbat said:

?

That looks like the puppy! Glad I quoted you as I still would have been none the wiser unless I had seen the file name

What drugs must the the designer have been on when he came up with that and thought 'Yep, that looks ace - I reckon that will sell by the bucketload.'

Edit - it really does look like a Nissan/Suzuki love-in, doesn't it....

[trashbat]

pincher said:

That looks like the puppy! Glad I quoted you as I still would have been none the wiser unless I had seen the file name

What drugs must the the designer have been on when he came up with that and thought 'Yep, that looks ace - I reckon that will sell by the bucketload.'

Edit - it really does look like a Nissan/Suzuki love-in, doesn't it....

From Wiki:

wiki said:

The car was designed by Ken Greenley,[5] former head of the automotive design course at the Royal College of Art in London. The design goal was to capture the essence of a luxury yacht.

and

wiki said:

In 2005 the Rodius won the dubious distinction of being voted "the ugliest car ever made" by visitors to motoring website CarData and is described by Top Gear Magazine as a car: "that looks like it got bottled in a pub brawl and stitched back together by a blind man" and the car also won the Top Gear Magazine WTF Award for 2009. [6]

It also got described as: "having a face like a burnt thong" by the Australian magazine Wheels.[7]

In 2010, the Australian magazine liftout of the Sydney Morning Herald, Drive Life, described the car as being "so cack-handed in every aesthetic department it makes the average people-mover owner feel like they are getting about in an ultra-stylish Italian sports machine", later going on to call it a "collapsing bus shelter on wheels".[8]

[MC Bodge]

I reckon it was inspired by this:

[kambites]

pincher said:

Edit - it really does look like a Nissan/Suzuki love-in, doesn't it....

Still looks better than the X6, though.

[Krikkit]

I can see what he was going for with that C-pillar line, and on something with a bit more curve and purpose it might look alright, but the castor-size wheels and boxyness ruin it.

[cronk-flakes]

MC Bodge said:

I reckon it was inspired by this:

THAT is goddamn hideous... I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it in 'Breaking Bad'... I almost wept.

[MC Bodge]

cronk-flakes said:

MC Bodge said:

I reckon it was inspired by this:

THAT is goddamn hideous... I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it in 'Breaking Bad'... I almost wept.

I couldn't believe it when one on my colleagues rolled up in a one as a rental a few years ago.

It was even more distressing in the flesh/metal.

[cronk-flakes]

MC Bodge said:

I couldn't believe it when one on my colleagues rolled up in a one as a rental a few years ago.

It was even more distressing in the flesh/metal.

I've yet to experience that, thankfully.

[Alfanatic]

"the Top Gear Magazine WTF Award"

[GTIR]

I've a chap (private hire) who has one. I only use him if I really need to and never with families with children!

trashbat said:

It also got described as: "having a face like a burnt thong" by the Australian magazine Wheels.[7]

A thong in Australia is a flip flop.

[DonkeyApple]

wiki said:

The car was designed by Ken Greenley,[5]

Seems about right.

[LuS1fer]

It's certainly ugly but the load space is vast.

[pincher]

kambites said:

Still looks better than the X6, though.

[Big Fat Fatty]

DonkeyApple said:

wiki said:

The car was designed by Ken Greenley,[5]

Seems about right.

But he was partly responsible for this:


What went wrong?

[vincegail]

There are at least 3 (groups of) people in the wrong here.
-the designer
-the board of commissioners who gave the go-ahead for this
-all buyers of the monstrosity

[thinfourth2]

vincegail said:

There are at least 3 (groups of) people in the wrong here.
-the designer
-the board of commissioners who gave the go-ahead for this
-all buyers of the monstrosity

Ah but its RWD so it must be the best pig sick ugly people carrier in........................................................... the world

[MC Bodge]

Big Fat Fatty said:

But he was partly responsible for this:


What went wrong?

I know, that's hideous too.