A car is pretty personal to many people, and for that reason, they wish to jazz up their wheels a little. Well, not just literally their wheels but also their paint jobs, doors, mirrors, headlamps, and even tints to the windscreens and gas caps. As everyone knows, paint isn't the only thing that makes a car stand out from the rest of them because there are thousands of the same model of vehicles everywhere that the average person drives. So, when drivers see the reflection of their popular ride on all the highways across the country, it's only fair that they want to try and make theirs stand out.
People have varying tastes, and this is why the automotive industry is so successful. The broad tastes of drivers, whether it be for the motorist who's just passed his test or a rich person wanting a supercar. Some might just want their auto for the purpose of running to the supermarket and school, but others want their cars to exist as extensions of themselves. This is where customization comes into play, and there's no limit to the imaginations of some drivers. Some people, though–as they do with everything else–take their decoration just a tad too far and into the realms of sheer stupidity. Such vehicles, like the legendary Jeep, are great enough to stand on their own merits, but as these many examples show, even Jeep owners subject their helpless cars to some terrible modifications.
20 Crude Concept
Car manufacturing is an ongoing process of working constantly on models and the growing developments that are constantly updating. In-car technology is getting ever more integrated with our growing mobile phone technology, syncing up with services like Google Maps or Spotify. There are also the changes to the engine that are constantly needed in order to be more eco-friendly as vehicles in an ever-changing market. Of course, style is also a vital thing. As tastes regularly change throughout the years, the days of boxy shaped '80s cars are behind us. But even when the bigwigs up at Jeep headquarters are busily hatching ideas and scribbling away at new models to release, often, these concepts are as much hit as they are miss. Jeep has a certain standard of motor that people expect them to produce, and when they deviate a little from that norm, things just get weird! A concept design for a Jeepster 1998 model was more than a strikeout; the pictures, courtesy of oldconceptcars.com, look like designers tried to dump a sporty hatch on large wheels! Jeep lovers already have the highly popular Wrangler for a three-seater with a top that comes down.
19 Fluttering Lashes Fail
People are even well known for modifying themselves. After all, is that not really what putting makeup on or getting a haircut really is? But a lot of people like to go further than making sure their hair doesn’t grow down to their knees or that their nails don't grow into talons. Modifications range from having ears pierced and getting tattoos, both of which are very popular, as are fake nails, hair extensions, and fake tans.
In the days where many people are a horrendous shade of orange, paint brows on, and have lashes that small birds could nest on, it's only fitting that the same should happen to their cars.
Whenever headlamps are switched on, many liken them to eyes, and some strange people also like to act like their car is a person (which worked very well in Stephen King’s Christine). A Jeep isn't the kind of car that's made to look cute, as its intention is to go out and challenge nature. And as Jeep Wrangler Forum shows, this attempt at sweet eyelashes, to make the big round headlamps of this Jeep appear innocent, just looks very sickly instead.
18 Your Carriage Awaits
Some things are so weird that one may ponder upon when the idea came to someone to create such a curveball of a car. There are also some other contemplations that a person can muse upon when an image is all that anyone has to go on, such as how this vehicle doesn't defy the laws of physics. Because one thing is certain: cars aren't light objects in their construction; they're made largely of metal on the outer frame, the engine, and the powertrain underneath. Things get even heavier when these cars become SUVs, needing a tad more metal to make up its stuff and all of the randomness shaping itself into a machine with a wheel. Certainly, an automobile’s construction from such material means they're heavier than the vehicles that preceded it, including the horse-drawn carriage. These carriages were crafted from wood, and although, perhaps, the wheels did contain some metal, they too were crafted out of mostly wood. So, how did the craziness of this five-door Jeep Wrangler sit delicately atop flimsy wooden carriage wheels? Either these wheels have been crafted from some mutated supertree or the car is lighter than it looks. But in agreement with JK Forum, it looks bad anyway.
17 A Pushchair?
Just like oversized wheels can look totally and painfully out of place, so do wheels that are small. When they're stuck on the bottom of a large vehicle, though, the wheels look even tinier. And what's more—it makes the car in question larger, resulting in an entirely weird-looking mishmash mess! There are some considerations to take on board when looking at this image. For one thing, why has the owner made this leap-of-faith decision? An obvious standout point from this ride is that this is a Jeep Wrangler and, therefore, is an object that's higher off the ground than its automotive cousins.
So, in order to make the Wrangler look as though it looks nice and well—normal—some decently fitted wheels are definitely a wise step to make the car look good.
Instead, someone made the decision to place these tiny four wheels on the Jeep that makes it appear precarious on the ground. It makes the Jeep look more like a baby’s push chair than a gutsy, convertible off-roader. Maybe it showed up on Pinterest as an idea of what motorists shouldn't do when designing their own SUVs?
16 Go Green (Just Not THIS Green!)
Applying a coat of paint to a car is simple, straightforward, and doesn't really fit into the concept of ruining a car, but with people who have poor taste, anything is possible. Green is kind of a mouse trap or a tightrope type of color, so a luridly bright, neon-green shade of green isn't a wise choice; it certainly doesn't make a car more beautiful. Granted, this eye-catching (or should that be eye-watering instead?) tone of green is less like blades of grass or deep tree leaves but more akin to the color of phlegm. But it does make the Wrangler Rubicon stand out from the crowd–possibly to the extent that the vehicle can be seen from space–though it's not necessarily a good thing. The source of this image, a blog titled "ArmeniaBirding.info," dubs this particular type of SUV a "green zombie Jeep," although this seems to be a little bit of a mischaracterization, as there aren't zombies of that color during any episode of The Walking Dead. Never mind... there are a ton of other tests this car can do. Does it glow in the dark, for instance?
15 Space-Age SUV
There's one decade that broke the mold—a decade that turned established society on its head with a topsy-turvy gale of change. The '60s was an age of revolution, an age of The Beatles and The Stones. It was the decade that was an era of fast-paced change, of Civil Rights, Vietnam, the Cold War, and the Space Race. In 1969, the USA won the Space Race when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, allowing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to walk on the lunar surface. Because of the frenzied nature of competing against the Communist East, the mad dash to beat one another produced some strange examples of space-type marketing. Even brands such as Jeep weren't immune to the insane marketing ideas that plagued the '60s Space Race, nor the edgy fashions common to this decade. Jeep managed to toy with a concept vehicle that was a blend of a design straight out of the mind maze of modern architecture and what people in the '60s thought looked futuristic. Thanks to oldconceptcars.com, Jeep’s XJ002 Concept in 1969 looked like a moon buggy minus the doors—be careful about the lunar gravity when driving around on the Moon’s surface!
14 Flower Power
Some designs are just chalk to the model’s cheese, and a Jeep Wrangler needs to look as though it's a fierce beast, ready to take on nature one moment and command the road the next. For this reason, a Jeep Wrangler should be painted a shade that strikes fear into the hearts of other motorists (well, not that far), although it's a vehicle that's gutsy and has a look for all locations, whether on the highway, in the woods, in the mountains, or at the beach. Nevertheless, it doesn't take much to suddenly convert what should remain as a muscular, powerful, off-road motor car into one tempered– read, neutered–by an exterior paint-design mishap like this one. An overland SUV doesn't gel really well with the entire notion of nature and being one with the wildlife, so a floral pattern seems really out of place on this vehicle. Showing up in an online Jeep Wrangler forum, this floral-pattern paint modification is neither hippie nor old folks’ home but just an unpleasant reminder that some things don’t belong on the road! Plant this baby in a bodywork shop for a much needed exterior makeover, stat!
13 It’s What’s Inside that Counts
A car needs to be as comfortable as possible. Some people make it like a home away from home, and short of having a Rolls-Royce or a Bentley, this isn't really a realistic achievement. However, people need to sit down while they're driving a car, as do their numerous passengers, which, in cars like a Jeep, can be as many as seven, as a multi-person vehicle. Some motors now can even house a varied amount of mod cons that can make it easier for drivers and passengers.
What was originally a radio became an 8-Track player, then a cassette player, then a CD player.
Now cars have beverage holders, DVD players, or screens in the front headrests, and there's even built-in wi-fi these days. So, before cars become robots completely, fitted out with home cinemas and their own tiny kitchenettes, we humans still have ultimate control over a car. Just as people want to personalize their vehicle’s exterior, they also want to design the inside of the car to fit their tastes, however weird those tastes are—like this image from JKOwners.com that shows this odd interior that mimics a crocodile skin in silver with a voodoo head from the rear-view mirror!
12 Ditch This Pickup
People expect certain brands to provide particular goods, and over time, this expectation becomes second nature, so when said company goes against the grain, it's a dangerous hit and miss. Sometimes, these curve balls genuinely pay off and result in a huge new successful market base, equalling serious bank for the company. On the flip side, an idea can totally tank and leave the company with a financial hole where they thought a good idea once lived. Nowhere is this truer than when cars are manufactured, as people know what a vehicle brand stands for. Ferrari is known for producing sports cars, although other brands like Porsche have branched out into SUVs. But unlike the attempts at Porsche’s delving into overland vehicles, Jeep hasn't really had much of a chance to chip in with variants of cars. The concept car for a Jeep pickup truck from 1999 makes a fair attempt at making what looks like an old-fashioned pickup truck, but that's the sole problem. With a lacklustre color (like puke) and looking like the back of a Wrangler has been shorn off with the remaining metal welded into a cab, it’s hardly 21st century!
11 What Happens in the '80s Should Stay in the '80s!
Well, not necessarily... but there were many times during the 1980s that fashion and design seriously dropped the ball. Because most grownups were either born in the '80s or were children in that decade, some of the cringe can easily be diluted by the shade of rose-tinted spectacles. Shoulder pads, huge hair that needed enough hairspray to take a bite out of the ozone layer, and the mullet are all conveniently (and thankfully) overlooked. As a trade-off, we indulge in the nostalgia, the classic movies, and the cheesy 8-Bit games that allow us to travel back in time, as do the retro designs of the cars. From DeLoreans to the appealing angular finishes of the Volkswagen Golf and the BMW 3 Series range, the cars provided a shapely design with growing modern tastes. It was only inevitable that Jeep would also try to muscle in on the cubic craze of the '80s, like a huge Tetris game got way out of hand! Appearing on oldconceptcars.com, this attempt at what seems to be a hybrid between an SUV and a convertible sports car seems like a red smear, a bad dream of what the '80s were, being designed in 1990.
10 SUV Tractor?
Farmers need a robust vehicle that's able to withstand the uncompromising whims of nature—wilds that can seem pleasantly sunny one moment and then turn into squalling sheets of freezing rain the next. Therefore, a meaty car or off-road vehicle comes in truly handy for treating large swathes of mud like they're a well-paved asphalt highway or toll road—a motor that treats ditches and hills like they're a minor rivet or bump, as well as drags very heavy weights from one end of the land’s acres to the other. But a tractor is a very different animal from an SUV, and now, off-road vehicles are more of a ride that's more of a status symbol than a working car. A tractor then is just there for function and will dispense with the internal luxuries or outer styles that have now taken over the overland vehicle market. However, when it comes to the Jeep brand, the utilitarian and the beautiful eventually merge as a marriage made in motor heaven—or so one might think. Yet, a closer look at this vehicle only brings images of an evil version of the car that runs on soda from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!
9 Chieftain (Cherokee) Tank!
Most of us are familiar with the old horror story Frankenstein. The tale, written by Mary Shelley 200 years ago, tells of a deranged Dr. Frankenstein designing a man from various body parts and bringing that man to life. The story is a cornerstone of the horror genre and more or less gave birth to the whole area of fiction, and it was written by an 18-year-old woman, no less. Frankenstein has gone down as one of the all-time great classics and has seeped into popular culture, with several Hollywood movies produced around the book. For this reason, we're all familiar with the notion of zombies, undead creatures that are either raised from their graves or sewn together from bits of other bodies. Of course, in reality, people aren't doing bizarre chopping and changing with bodies (anymore *ahem, Burke and Hare), though this isn't the case with cars. Changing parts of an auto inside or out is very common, to the point where some don’t even bother to match the coats of paint on two outside pieces. But as this image from AutoGuide shows, the owner here has gone too far with a total oddball Frankenstein Jeep/Tank thingy!
8 Take This Apart!
Pinterest is always a gold mine for finding images that widen the eyes and cause the jaw to drop in shock. Pinterest is essentially a bulletin board for the entire internet; when someone puts a pic (or pins it), this doesn't have to be a good thing because pictures are windows into the bizarre ideas people have. No one in their right mind should be toying with this design of a prototype, and there are some things that people should well and truly leave behind in their childhoods. Building the mods of a ride from the ground up is literally the ethos behind the entire brand that is Lego. As Lego is all about using small pieces to build from the ground up, so is this car.
Jeeps would seem very amenable to being modified by being fashioned around modular blocks, but no—there's a line, and this line has been crossed with this car.
The owner of the vehicle wants to have either a grown motor or a toy truck from kindergarten. But this really seems like the driver wants to be the latter. Just don’t drop this one on the floor for an impending disaster!
7 Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful
Some colors clash, but it appears as though people don't seem to get this concept; a fluffy pink shade doesn't really gel well with a jaded, kind of electric, phlegm-colored green. That makes for a stomach-churning combo. But other people be damned! People have the right to decorate their stuff in any way that they wish to, but other people also have the right to cringe at terrible choices, too. Our objects and property are extensions of ourselves; if a driver likes cutesy, fluffy things with vibrant colors, then property like his car will ultimately be a victim of that taste. This modification that makes a Jeep Wrangler have the bearing of a person is totally strange because no one has a pink face and a neon lime-green head with perfectly round eyes. With its overly friendly, coyly sweet design, this Shirley Temple version of a Jeep instead makes its way embarrassingly on uglycars.com. With the overly nice ‘Have a Jeep Day,’ like some automotive Ned Flanders, this Jeep is a reminder that people should stick to what the brand represents—a beefy monster and not some shy, innocent, dainty car.
6 This One Is Angry at the World!
This driver has a score to settle against the universe, stopping at nothing to lay his terrible vengeance on everything and everyone! How does this person communicate this message? By painting a permanently aggrieved expression upon the outside of the ride to warn the world that if they mess with the driver, they'll suffer some dire consequences. Imagine driving in the night, making your way along a deserted road, when lo and behold, a car like this appears with its furious face in the rear-view mirror! The enraged Jeep approaches the tail of your car; he's furious with you and wants you to be the first victim of his vendetta upon all of existence! Perhaps this is a little excessive, but the entire motif of the Jeep Wrangler here seems to have been built on the design of a very annoyed Transformer, waiting for its chance to kick some a*s! Designing this vehicle seems to be a canvas where the owner wants to show everyone that he shouldn't be messed with, but instead of inspiring fear, it makes people respond with misunderstanding. Uglycars.com brands this auto across the internet to show their rage that a Wrangler has been treated so.
5 This Motorist Might End Up in the Boneyard!
It's common to have a design attached to the grille of the car or, more often, to the grille of a truck, an emblem and companion for the vehicle that many truck drivers have to have with their motor as a second home. These emblems are often nothing more than a cuddly toy (everyone who saw Toy Story 3 knew this was the fate of the villain Lotso), but for other designs or additions, it's important not to get too carried away. Cars are ultimately for driving at the end of the day, so for that reason alone, they need to be suitable for the road—not just for the driver of the ride in question but also for the surrounding motorists on the highways and byways out there.
An ungainly, gigantic decoration jammed into the front of the grille is not only stupid; it's also potentially lethal to the car’s driver and his peers on the road.
This thread on Pinterest shows maybe even a prediction of what will become of this foolhardy motorist. Stuffing the skeleton into the grille of this Wrangler is a fast way for this driver to become one.
4 High, Not Mighty
Maybe the designer of the vehicle was actually high when he thought of these modifications and built said mods from the ground up. One aspect of the 4x4 automobile is that it's taller than a large percentage of its contemporary motors on the road, so this passion to be higher up than everyone else gets pretty addictive. The wheel frame is just like every part of the car; it's easily adapted for those who know how to do it. But in the words of Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think about whether they should.” What's on display here is precisely the reason why this saying holds so much weight: the points behind this modification seems a little inexplicable. There seems to be little point in raising a car on stilts. Does this need to drive through deep water? Are there shelves in some car supermarket that this Jeep needs to reach perhaps? The Cherokee stands head and shoulders above others, and Toyota4RunnerForum.com wants to show this Jeep in all its–lack of–glory. What’s it like up there? How did you even get up there?
3 Wrong Car, Wrong Rims
The wheels on the bus go round and round, and they do the same on every other vehicle, too, for that matter. From the lowly chariot to a self-driving car, the wheels have been arguably the most vital part of an auto–alongside the engine, of course. The thrust of the engine causes propulsion, proving that gravity, with the tread of rubber added to the friction against a road, allows a vehicle to gather speed. Enough about science—wheels are vital to the style of the car, too, and more recent makeovers pay a lot of attention to the wheels, as adding rims adds a sparkling sheen to the finished product. A main component of good taste is knowing when to draw the line, however, understanding how easily adding a finishing touch can go horribly wrong, inflating hugely from a usual look of rims.
A dark shade that this Jeep Wrangler has been colored in needs to be set with either a vibrant clashing shade or another muted one.
The wheels should also match the kind of car they're attached to, and as this photo on JK Forums shows, sometimes, it's really wise to think before you modify your wheels and have to spend money on righting them.
2 Elevated Sense of Self
It's already been shown many times how tinkering foolishly with the underside of a motor changes the look of a ride drastically, and when someone goes too far, we descend into realms of madness—levels of insanity that are best kept in the idea phase of a plan and never executed beyond that. But oh well... there's no accounting for taste, is there? Clearly, the owner of this vehicle seems like he's somewhat of a military nut. Perhaps he's a vet, but likely not. After all, military heavy green always implies someone loves the army and all of the regalia that goes with it, but who's ever seen a military vehicle like this? Courtesy of Jalopnik, we see this overcooked attempt at modification. Does a small man have a bit of a Napoleon Complex, forcing the Wrangler to elevates him above everyone else? Then, there are the canvas doors, flimsy and probably more than a little windy higher up in the air. Also taking a hairpin turn at speed may result in a little bit more velocity than usual, kicking you to the curb—not to mention how the stilts would handle the extreme driveability around corners and at speeds.
1 Who Needs Circular Wheels?
What do people think of when the word 'wheel' is mentioned? A circle, perfectly round, formed precisely for motion. Stand a circle on its side, and if imbalance doesn't cause it to fall, it'll roll, then fall. It usually takes at least two wheels to form some kind of balance because no one has time to learn how to ride a unicycle. Pop a kickstand down on some bike, and it'll stand all on its own, but unless referring to old British car the Robin Reliant that drove on three wheels, four makes an automobile go round! Four sides form a square, but three make a triangle, and both shapes are far from ideal when a car is in motion, throwing driver and passenger all over the place. The only way a triangular wheel could possibly work is by having chain links attached, but to this auto, in particular, the only question everyone is left wondering is, "Why?" Not only does the Jeep Wrangler in question look dated and unloved; attaching the chain link wheels to mimic a tank is nothing short of odd. JK Forums shows us and the entire internet what not to do when getting an SUV.
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