In an industry as huge as the automotive industry, failures are just as common as successes, if not more. Over decades of progress, the market has seen plenty of cars come and go, and while some have become a part of history, others have become history themselves. There are many reasons a car could fail. Some are quite unreliable, leading bad word of mouth and owner experiences to cause its eventual downfall. Others are plagued with pricing issues, or fail to deliver a justifiable value, which also leads to car manufacturers scrapping these cars. However, there are also those examples which are the most baffling. Some cars fail, because they were downright ugly.

That's right, some cars are so hard to look at, that it is baffling how their design was ever approved for the masses. How could a car that is so unpleasant on the eyes, have ever been expected to succeed? And yet, this is an occurrence that has happened a surprising number of times, leading to the inevitable (and necessary) death of said cars, and sometimes even the brands, owing to their looks. That said, let's take a look (begrudgingly) at ten cars that were so ugly that we're glad they failed.

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10 GM EV1

GM EV1
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That the GM EV1 looked like a bar of soap with some wheels is not even the only reason the car failed. This car came out in 1996, and was one of the first electric vehicles to arrive on the scene. Its electric drivetrain did have people excited and talking about it, since there weren’t a lot of contemporary rivals that ran on batteries and electricity.

1996-1999 GM EV1
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Sadly, it was the design that led to the car’s downfall, since it never sat right with the masses. The EV1 didn’t handle all that well either, and GM also never fulfilled some claims they made about their electric car, which is why they promptly killed the car three years later.

9 Nissan S-Cargo

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Nissan launched the S-Cargo as a commercial van with retro styling. However, that raised some eyebrows, since the styling in question did not throw back to any time in automotive history where a car looked this ugly and misshapen.

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With what can only be described as a snail-like body, the Nissan S-Cargo never took off, either in the market or on the tarmac itself, which made its sales crawl much like the snail it resembled aesthetically.

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8 Chrysler PT Cruiser

Front 3/4 view of a silver PT Cruiser
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The Chrysler PT Cruiser is quite hard to look at and take seriously, and yet, it did post a respectable 1.5 million sales. What gives, then? Well, the PT Cruiser Convertible had a bit of a reputation for being so ugly that it was actually cool to own one.

The Ugly-Looking 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT Turbo
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Of course, 1.5 million people jumped on the train, but for the rest of the world, this is one car that remained revolting aesthetically, and we don’t blame them. The sales don’t make sense for the PT Cruiser, but the 2000s were, after all, a time for convertibles to be something every household wanted.

7 Chevrolet SSR

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On the topic of massively, ugly, truck-like abominations, the Chevrolet SSR comes to mind, and yet, where the PT Cruiser from Chrysler did sell well (somehow), the SSR never did. There’s no denying that this is one of the worst trucks in history, and it never, for a second, suited a well-renowned auto giant like Chevy.

2003 Chevrolet SSR: The truck that was no truck.
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The SSR shouldn’t ever have been called a pickup truck anyway, since it couldn’t handle any working tasks, had no power to truly boast of, and looked horribly toyish and childish. Understandable, it only sold about 24,000 units over three years when Chevy canned it in 2006, much to our relief.

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6 Chevrolet Lumina APV

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One of the ugliest cars ever made in GM’s history, the Chevy Lumina APV was the Dustbuster van which GM wanted to be a futuristic minivan, but it became history. In an attempt to make it look futuristic, the Lumina APV certainly was unique, but it never could cater to customers who wanted boxy vans, since it was never boxy in the first place.

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A weirdly-shaped anteater nose didn’t help the Lumina APV’s appeal either, and we can only imagine the designers were always mentally elsewhere during the process, since not only did the van look unappealing, but its dashboard actually had the habit of eating up items between panel gaps, which one could only get back after removing the entire windshield. These Dustbuster vans, which were the same car across three brands, the Chevy Lumina APV, the Oldsmobile Silhouette, and the Pontiac Trans Sport, never took off, and we’re glad they didn’t.

5 Renault Avantime

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A box-art, two-door car is never the answer, no matter what the question or context is. Sadly, Renault thought otherwise, when in 2001, they decided the new century deserved a new direction. Only they somehow got it absurdly wrong with a cubic looking car that looked like it had pieces cut out of it from the back.

Rear 3/4 view of the Avantime
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Renault had a disaster on their hands from the get-go, which was emphasized by a measly 8,000 sales over two years. After that, the brand finally took one right decision with the Avantime, which was to give up on it and cease production, thankfully taking it off the streets. Years later, Renault is now moving in a direction completely away from minivans in general.

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4 Suzuki X-90

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No, if you’re looking at the Suzuki X-90 and wondering, “well, that is of course a kei car from the Japanese brand," you’re wrong. The Suzuki X-90 is perhaps the manufacturer’s most infamous car, as it should be, since to this day, it’s tough to point out what the car actually was. In fact, we’d bet that even designers in 1995 didn’t, which is how the world ended up with the X-90.

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A weird amalgamation of a pickup, a sports sedan, and a compact, small hatch, the X-90 looked like everything, all at once. This resulted in nothing but a puzzled look on the faces of onlookers, and the car, understandably, simply never took off, with Suzuki calling it quits on it just two years later in 1997.

3 Pontiac Aztek

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The Pontiac Aztek is always a part of any conversation about the ugliest cars ever built, and there is no doubt why after you take a gander at it. Pontiac tried to sell this crossover between 2001 and 2005, and just the fact that his car lasted five years is even more bizarre than its design itself.

2003 Pontiac Aztek Crossover SUV
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Impractical and ugly, the Aztek’s boxy design looked like two cars mushed on top of one another, with neither being good to look at. Even though the car had some redeeming points, the world never got over the nostrils and that front fascia, and Pontiac, for some reason, never changed it immediately, which led to the demise of the Aztek in 2005, and, as some claim, the eventual downfall of Pontiac itself.

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2 AMC Pacer

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Ever look at those videos where a cat is traveling around in a fishbowl backpack? Imagine being that cat, except in a car. This is the only way to describe the AMC Pacer, which used nothing but plastics and glass on the back, and too much of both.

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Its unorthodox design is nothing but strange to look at, with the front fascia being nothing to write home about either. Today, the Pacer enjoys its status of being an iconic ugly car, and we can only wish that AMC had done a better designing job.

1 Fiat Multipla

2002 Fiat Multipla Cropped
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Here we are, at perhaps the ugliest car ever made. The Fiat Multipla was the absolute, extreme opposite of the 600 Multipla, which was loved all over. No, the Fiat Multipla was more of a mutation on four wheels, which seemed like a deformed 600 Multipla had grown something in its upper half.

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No amount of ‘ugliest car’ awards could ever be enough for the Fiat Multipla, thanks to its hood that looked like it had been trampled, a huge fishbowl-glass design, and the ever-lingering feeling of sitting in two cars that had been mashed together into one.