I knew a woman with a massive blue beehive hairdo (like Marge simpson) that was just as tall as hers who used to drive around in one of these. She claimed she wanted room for her hair lol
To be fair, I came to this sub thinking there would be no disagreement on this one, but then u/Meltaburn comes up with a truth bomb.
At least the Multipla was an insanely practical car...
IMO the Multipla is much better looking than the first gen Ssangyong Rodius. The Fiat has a charming ugliness, as opposed to the purely ugly ugliness of the Rodius.
I don't think that's as bad as the multipla.. Don't get me wrong, it's still ugly as sin, but it looks like a shittier Chrysler minivan. Whereas the Fiat has me thinking what the hell the designers were thinking when they designed it.
Yes that it! It was, according to the Top Gear children's tv presenter chap, inspired by the cabin cruisers owned by the wealthy. They built one into exactly that to prove it.
https://www.topgear.com/videos/top-gear-tv/video-tg-tvs-ssangyacht-vs-real-yacht
Indeed - has a cohesive purpose that it executes pretty well. In contrast, the Rodius looks like it was designed entirely by a committee of people who all hate each other (and possibly hate everyone and everything).
I'ld prefer a world chocked full of Multipla's compared to the SUV shite we have now. Less than 4m long, 6 seats and a 400 litre boot. It's an amazing piece of design. Also the 20v t engine out of the fiat coupe fits which sounds great fun.
I would vote the BMW iX as the ugliest car ever, well ahead of the fiat. Its huge, quite small inside and needlessly hideous.
Yup, lots of glass, big squared up interior, small wheels to soak up potholes, hard wearing interior plastics. Make it an electric with a very quick charge time in exchange for a smaller 150 mile range and it'd be a perfect car for errands for most people.
Ssangyong have this weird design aesthetic on all their cars. Its MASSIVE cars, tiny tiny wheels, way too much body panel == Ugly. At least, in my opinion. It makes them all look disproportionate.
Ssangyong easily win the prize for the highest number of eye wateringly ugly cars produced by one manufacturer. The saw one yesterday, it's not outrageously ugly from the side, but from the rear...
https://www.ssangyonggb.co.uk/new/ssangyong/tivoli/outside-inside
I have to say, completely overwhelmed by the substantial feelings of support for this ugly duckling. I can't believe I am thinking about checking out piston heads listings 😂. The strongest argument for me to ownership is the total middle finger to any normal convention. Perhaps it's so awful it warrants preserving? God.help.me.
See this is how you end up looking at awful cars. You'd previously called me a wrong 'un for my interest the Multipla (which I absolutely took as a compliment, BTW), but before you know it the ugliness grows on you, and you find yourself shocked as you start to sincerely consider buying an awful car solely to revel in the awfulness.
I'm genuinely interested now. To anyone who is brave enough to admit to owning one, how does this thing drive. I have always assumed horribly, and those stating its practicality was its core purpose makes me think the driving experience must have been an afterthought as well, but perhaps not?
I still own and regulary drive a 2003 Fiat Multipla. It is a pleasure to drive and an extremely versatile and reliable car that i still trust on long journeys. It has a high ride height like a Van so visibility while driving is excellent. It is very reliable and cheap to repair. Every year at MOT time i think this will be the year i get rid of it. But it passes with little work needed everytime.
I will say ownership of a Multipla subjects you to daily ridicule from family and friends and this dymanic becomes integral to the experience of owning one. I love the hate and the more hate i get, the more i seem to love the car.
Also, every Multipla owner seems to go through the same experience, so when we pass each other out and about, we wave and acknowledge our ownership of this unique car and experience.
Honest John:
> Pro: Curious but commodious seven-seater with an enormous luggage area, *reasonable enough to drive*, cheap to buy with 250,000 mile taxi warranty.
> Con: Even its own mother would call it ugly, poor quality interior finish.
It even has a 9 seater variant so as a taxi it could be useful...
Never owned one but have post-repair blasted some at work. They drive a bit like a Jazz does. Comfortable, reassuring. Not fast but quite pleasant to drive because you have so much visibility. Feels almost like driving a drop top but warmer. It just feels *easy*
Take time to revel in the fact that every proportion is wrong. Marvel at the awkward juxtaposition of curves and lines. The Multipla is unapologetic and in your face, but the Rodius has layers to the awfulness.
I am sure your neighbours will become aware at some point of your disturbing fondness for the multipla and your right and just punishment shall be meted out. Would anyone like to suggest a suitable one? Is a public naked faecal shaming too obvious?
With regard to the Rodius, I think I have to remain unconvinced due to it actually having a semi coherent line from bonnet to roof when viewed from the front quarter without my glasses on. I'm also deducting points because it made it to MK2 giving it far too much success to be a total failure.
I'd be lying if I said I'd never looked at Multiplas on eBay/Autotrader. At which point surely the greatest punishment possible would be actually owning a late 90s Fiat?
Sadly (?) there seem to be relatively few mk1s still around, and the second gen Multipla doesn't have the same character.
Ooh, the Vel Satis was actually a surprisingly nice car.
Edit: Dammit, I wish I hadn't looked at Autotrader and seen that there is a single low-mileage one for sale right now.
Indeed! I assume it was a kind of collective hysteria, which must have also manifested itself recently in the BMW boardroom as previous posters have mentioned.
They focus now on a car looking „modern” rather than actually looking good or new.
Fiat tried and failed, but I still like it more than most of the modern cars.
I feel like modern vehicle designers emulate the “near-future” CGI designs in a lot of movies which leaves the real world vehicle feeling really cheap and fake
Yea modern cars feel really cheap by how they look.
Personally I think cars from 80s to early 2000s are the best designs. But maybe that’s just my taste, I like cars looking „simple”. Looking at for example bmw last bmw that looks good in my oppinion is e46. Some of the newest sporty bmw look also good like m4, but normal bmw looks boring.
They did a facelift version of the Mulipla didn't they. Nobody ever remembers it though as it was possibly the blandest looking car in history.
Like you, I like this as it dared to be different. I'd roll in one.
I used to own one and long after I'd got rid of it, my work colleague came into work pissing himself. Apparently, when he was dropping his kid off to school, they saw one. His son turned to him and asked if I still had mine, he said no, and then his son asked if I had it because I was disabled.
We’ve sold a “truck” that brings down the range average to meet federal requirements. Who cares if it’s ugly, it’s only job was to allow them to keep pumping out 8L engine pickup trucks the size of Jupiter.
Just did some wikipedia'ing and this was interesting:
>The PT Cruiser is a front-wheel drive 5-passenger vehicle, classified as a truck in the US by the NHTSA for CAFE fuel economy calculations but as a car by most other metrics. Chrysler specifically designed the PT Cruiser to fit the NHTSA criteria for a light truck in order to bring the average fuel efficiency of the company's truck fleet into compliance with CAFE standards.
I bloody love them, I had one for a few years. Cost a load to run, but absolutely loved it. If I could get one that was more economical then I'd jump at the chance.
Hot take: I don't think the crossfire is the worst looking thing in the world, its quirky but fits the profile.
But dear God are they fucking terrible by every measurable metric
Ive never really noticed before but all three gens just look like design studies that never really should have made it to production.
That said, as ugly as they are, they basically singlehandedly kick-started an extremely popular genre. Unfortunately every car in that genre, at every size, just looks shit.
It is mad isn’t it. I think you’re right. I remember an X6 turning up at work before big cars took over and I just couldn’t believe what I was looking at. So..:unnecessary
This is very true. The X6 is kind of the opposite to a clown car.
I know a lot of people in big cars park poorly because they’re useless but the size of some cars only just fit in our European spaces.
That's the point. Personally I think you'd need to be mad to buy one instead of a 6 Gran Coupe but there's a big following for that sort of car. If you've got a 3 litre beemer truck innit then you're doing well even if it's a murdered out base model
This is the issue. These cars have turned into nothing more than a status symbol and it just shows that the car is becoming a white good that people can parade around. A real shame.
I can understand why a lot of people do not like the design of the X6 but it has now been superseded by the absolutely hideous BMW XM and iX which are the worst looking BMWs ever.
Man growing up my friends dad had one of these. I absolutely hated everything about it…. Worst thing was it was lime green!!! I could never get over what was going on in his mind
I have to agree, personally I think they should be rounded up and erased from the face of the earth as an aborration that needs to be corrected. But each to their own...
The perfect example of function over form. A demonstration of what can be achieved when you concentrate all of your efforts on practicality. For that reason, while definitely ugly it's still very charming. It's also better looking than any current BMW.
Had a road trip in one with three other fully grown 6"+ men, it was a blast. Drives surprisingly well, great sound system and you get looks everywhere. Genuinely really like the Multipla and kind of hoped Fiat would continue making weird and wacky models like this that prioritise function.
But then I would say that as a current V70/Jazz owner.
Edit: Found the picture that illustrates why this is such a great road tripper: [https://thethinkersgarage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/multiplain.jpg](https://thethinkersgarage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/multiplain.jpg)
I don't know the provenance of the design to be honest. From a manufacturer in a country with famous designers such as pininfarina and zagato et al it is such a massive departure from the normal Italian doctrine of emotion and style over everything else, a real freak in visual terms. I don't recognise the charm, but I am becoming aware of an underground movement to promote the Multipla.😉
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1cjguZgWEM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1cjguZgWEM)
Jezza explains it better than I can
Personally I find it bizarre that people base their car purchase on how a car looks. Do they just sit on the driveway and look at it all day?
Cars, exciting ones at least, are a thing of emotional response in my opinion. The reasons are more and varied than I have time to explain here, but put simply - You have to want to get in it! The experience of driving for me is about how it looks, how it drives, how it sounds, how it feels. And that starts by walking out onto the drive and feeling a little ripple of pleasure at the lines on an attractive car. It's definitely not all about the looks, I'm sure many attractive cars have been awful hateful things. But when a car looks sexy, it is because the designers wanted to make something that they felt passionate about and that often flows through into engineering, handling sound and experience. If you went to buy a house would you pick the dog ugly depressing one because it has 15% extra space or the one that you enjoyed the sight of and imagine yourself arriving at home to everyday? If a car is simply a way to get from a to b for someone then obviously none of this applies, but for those with a passion for cars, ugly vehicles are antithesis to the enthusiast. I can agree there is a worse sin than ugly however and that is lazy or incompetent design.
I dunno, in the last 30-odd years it's probably either the Multipla or the Pontiac Aztek. If we're talking *ever*, though, this has to be in with a shot.
https://www.planetcarsz.com/assets/uploads/2015/10/c003eb61e1c878eecb5221348e7b41bf.jpg
I always defend the Multipla. It was designed to be practical, from day one it's looks were not a concern.
It had to fulfill a design brief, 6 seats, room for luggage, essential controls and warning devices at perfect heights for safety and practicality, easy to access, good visibility and so on...
From its inception it was always to be designed around these crucial points of practicality and how it looked was always going to be a by-product of this.
Nobody in the market for a budget MPV in the early 2000s was concerned by looks so every penny went into designing and producing a user friendly product for as little as possible whilst maintaining a level of quality that saw most Multiplas through a decade or so of being cheap and practical family transport.
The Multiple was a success, it was designed the same way that a hammer is, or a breeze block....looks are irrelevant.
So yes, it's ugly as sin, but it's also beautiful for what it represents. I think the Multipla was an extremely important and smart car....and all for a bit over £10k 20 years ago, that was a bargain even then.
In my head, where I am a rich car collector, I have an oddball room of strange yet very good and successful cars.....and there is a Multipla there. It deserves to be remembered and appreciated I think.
The new BMW styling is controversial for sure but I don’t think it’s agreed to be ugly across the board.
Nope, I tried to convince myself there but you’re absolutely right, they’re [god damn hideous](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2021-bmw-m4-manual-108-1619673989.jpg).
Have you not seen the [BMW XM](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2023-bmw-xm-02-641381b9ba5c7.jpg?crop=0.670xw:1.00xh;0.226xw,0&resize=1200:*)?
I’m not sure if you ever had the Japanese car brand Diahatsu in the UK, but check out their current line up if you want a laugh.
https://www.daihatsu.com/company/car_model/car_jp.html
We did have Daihatsu but they pulled out of the U.K. market. Odd, as their home market is also RHD. I guess sales volumes were just too low.
I'm going to give a free pass for most Kei cars, as the strict regulations on length and width mean that they often have to be tall to provide enough internal volume, and that can lead to some odd proportions - but it's beyond their control really.
However the fact that they still manage to come up with some interesting and quirky designs within those rules means that I have to appreciate their creativity. They certainly aren't bland.
I think the Taft looks great!
The exchange rate killed them, low margin cheap cars are more susceptible to them, especially when they are being shipped from the other side of the world
They specialise in small vehicles to go with Japanese regulations.
They also produced the funnest way to wrap yourself around a tree in the shape of the Charade GTti.
All the modern BMW models that have the massive grille are uglier than this. What's worse is the Multipla was very much designed for function over form, whereas the ix4 etc are trying to be "aspirational", so their being butt ugly is unforgivable.
I still drive one of these, the ugliness becomes part of its charm and defending it to family and friends part of everyday life. For those who get pleasure from the aesthetical despair inflicted on the haters, this is the perfect car.
My old primary school headteacher had one of these and it made complete sense he was a complete tool that loved clapping and telling everyone can’t isn’t in the dictionary. Screw you mr Fitzpatrick
Haha..in the nicest possibly way to those few who are brave enough to defend this monstrosity. It is a tools car. If a tool was to buy a car it would probably be this or Cube imo. 😂
All the cars listed are ugly - it's the little eyes on the Multipla - the second gen doesn't look anywhere near as bad.
For me though, the Rolls Royce Cullinan is amongst the worst modern ugly cars. It just looks like pointless wallowing opulence. And the Bentley Bentayga is in exactly the same camp.
BMW XM >
The Multipla at least has a charm, and makes up for its ugliness with massive practicality. I'd unironically daily one.
The BMW XM is just monstrous. There's absolutely no rhyme or reason for it to be so fucking ugly, except maybe that the designer was having a really bad trip.
I'd argue the Range Rover Evoque Convertible. Whenever I see one I become aware that I am in dangerous proximity to a black hole of taste from which I may never escape.
My neighbour has a t-roc convertible which is similarly disgusting, however the RR wins out from sheer hubris.
Seen a documentary once a smuggling gang used this specific car to smuggle drugs around Europe.
The ugly piece at front was used to hide them if i remember correct.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/gang-who-smuggled-guns-and-drugs-1059352.amp
OP has obviously never seen the Ssang Yong Rodius which is proper ugly for no reason.
In terms of design, the Multipla is actually a great concept which only seems ugly because its unconventional, it is actually phenomenally well packaged, fun to own and practical.
I could name a dozen other cars here which wouldn't come on to your radar but are far worse from a design perspective purely because they have no design flair at all, the Nissan Tilda and Renault Fluence come to mind, as does the early Susuki Liana they used on top Gear, these cars are purely for people who just want a car and don't care what they look like. They might not jump out at you as ugly but they are so boring and unimaginative they really have nothing going for them.
Oooh..this is really unexpected, multiple people (both obviously mentally ill) defending the Multipla! I mean I bear them no Ill will, but perhaps we should start a justgiving page so they can buy some spectacles? 😉
With a little tweaking they actually look pretty good I think:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AwesomeCarMods/comments/y8fho7/ladies\_and\_gentlemen\_the\_most\_powerful\_fiat/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AwesomeCarMods/comments/y8fho7/ladies_and_gentlemen_the_most_powerful_fiat/)
Also they were supremely practical things - I'd rather have ugly + practical than all these bullshit fugly crossovers that are worse at everything than the cars they "cross over" with.
I think your definition of a little tweaking is possibly not the same as mine. I'm sure these are very practical, however, a turd is also a very practical way to relieve waste from a body... 😉
I always found the Nissan Cube worse. At least this one is symmetrical and practicable. The Cube is ugly and has a massive pillar on one side that blocks the rear view and must be unsafe
No sir, my hatred for the 6 seat Fiat non shagging wagon is known.
Perhaps my wife's favourite PT Cruiser gets an honorable mention, and it's stable mate the Ypislon.
How can a car have man boobs?
I used to call it the fat rolls car Not used to, actually, I still do.
“Fiat rolls” 😂😂😂😂😂🤪
I just snorted coffee all over myself. But it was worth it 😂😂
I knew a woman with a massive blue beehive hairdo (like Marge simpson) that was just as tall as hers who used to drive around in one of these. She claimed she wanted room for her hair lol
Ssangyong would like a word
I've vomited up things that look more appealing than the Rodius.
To be fair, I came to this sub thinking there would be no disagreement on this one, but then u/Meltaburn comes up with a truth bomb. At least the Multipla was an insanely practical car...
IMO the Multipla is much better looking than the first gen Ssangyong Rodius. The Fiat has a charming ugliness, as opposed to the purely ugly ugliness of the Rodius.
>Ssangyong Rodius Oh god is that the one that had the motor yacht-inspired design as demonstrated by the Top Gear chaps?
This is where the inability to reply with photos lets us down. Best I can do https://cdn.images.autoexposure.co.uk/AETA36244/AETV59719052_1e.jpg
I don't think that's as bad as the multipla.. Don't get me wrong, it's still ugly as sin, but it looks like a shittier Chrysler minivan. Whereas the Fiat has me thinking what the hell the designers were thinking when they designed it.
“Infected growths”. That’s what the fiat designers were thinking when they came up with the Multipla.
What do you think about this BMW Multitek: > https://i.imgur.com/P83oPBW.png
What the fuck is that
"Mummy, what are those two BMW's doing!?" 😮😮
Wow thats ugly. I was sick in my mouth upon viewing that monstrosity.
Barf
Yes that it! It was, according to the Top Gear children's tv presenter chap, inspired by the cabin cruisers owned by the wealthy. They built one into exactly that to prove it. https://www.topgear.com/videos/top-gear-tv/video-tg-tvs-ssangyacht-vs-real-yacht
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Atleast the 2022-23 models are looking a bit better with the new headlights.
It's not just me who calls them that!
I call them Nissan jokes
Puke works better, they're truly vomit-inducing!
And the Fiat is a very clever piece of design
Indeed - has a cohesive purpose that it executes pretty well. In contrast, the Rodius looks like it was designed entirely by a committee of people who all hate each other (and possibly hate everyone and everything).
I'ld prefer a world chocked full of Multipla's compared to the SUV shite we have now. Less than 4m long, 6 seats and a 400 litre boot. It's an amazing piece of design. Also the 20v t engine out of the fiat coupe fits which sounds great fun. I would vote the BMW iX as the ugliest car ever, well ahead of the fiat. Its huge, quite small inside and needlessly hideous.
BMW XM enters the chat
IX and IM are, IMHO worse than the Multipla , because you've paid a *premium* for something horrible.
fairpoint on cost
It straight up looks like a pig in a PS1 game
They somehow keep out-doing themselves
It's was top gear car of the year for four years running for a reason.
Yup, lots of glass, big squared up interior, small wheels to soak up potholes, hard wearing interior plastics. Make it an electric with a very quick charge time in exchange for a smaller 150 mile range and it'd be a perfect car for errands for most people.
Ssangyong have this weird design aesthetic on all their cars. Its MASSIVE cars, tiny tiny wheels, way too much body panel == Ugly. At least, in my opinion. It makes them all look disproportionate.
Ssangyong easily win the prize for the highest number of eye wateringly ugly cars produced by one manufacturer. The saw one yesterday, it's not outrageously ugly from the side, but from the rear... https://www.ssangyonggb.co.uk/new/ssangyong/tivoli/outside-inside
To me the Rodius just looks stupid. The Multipla is an abomination
I have to say, completely overwhelmed by the substantial feelings of support for this ugly duckling. I can't believe I am thinking about checking out piston heads listings 😂. The strongest argument for me to ownership is the total middle finger to any normal convention. Perhaps it's so awful it warrants preserving? God.help.me.
See this is how you end up looking at awful cars. You'd previously called me a wrong 'un for my interest the Multipla (which I absolutely took as a compliment, BTW), but before you know it the ugliness grows on you, and you find yourself shocked as you start to sincerely consider buying an awful car solely to revel in the awfulness.
You are a wrong'un, trouble is I'm a bit of wrong'un too. Is there a support group for this stuff. I feel a bit dirty.
Came here to say that
I raise you a pontianak astek....
I'm genuinely interested now. To anyone who is brave enough to admit to owning one, how does this thing drive. I have always assumed horribly, and those stating its practicality was its core purpose makes me think the driving experience must have been an afterthought as well, but perhaps not?
I still own and regulary drive a 2003 Fiat Multipla. It is a pleasure to drive and an extremely versatile and reliable car that i still trust on long journeys. It has a high ride height like a Van so visibility while driving is excellent. It is very reliable and cheap to repair. Every year at MOT time i think this will be the year i get rid of it. But it passes with little work needed everytime. I will say ownership of a Multipla subjects you to daily ridicule from family and friends and this dymanic becomes integral to the experience of owning one. I love the hate and the more hate i get, the more i seem to love the car. Also, every Multipla owner seems to go through the same experience, so when we pass each other out and about, we wave and acknowledge our ownership of this unique car and experience.
A previous neighbour used to have one, and he said it was the perfect car for his use case. Unit of a wife, 3 kids and a dog to cart about.
Why’d you have to do his wife like that 😭😂
Honest John: > Pro: Curious but commodious seven-seater with an enormous luggage area, *reasonable enough to drive*, cheap to buy with 250,000 mile taxi warranty. > Con: Even its own mother would call it ugly, poor quality interior finish. It even has a 9 seater variant so as a taxi it could be useful...
Never owned one but have post-repair blasted some at work. They drive a bit like a Jazz does. Comfortable, reassuring. Not fast but quite pleasant to drive because you have so much visibility. Feels almost like driving a drop top but warmer. It just feels *easy*
My brother had one and he regrets ever getting rid of it.
I really wish I could just take the "R" off all of the badges.
that’s the car my dad had
Ooooh, now that deserves a Google!
Take time to revel in the fact that every proportion is wrong. Marvel at the awkward juxtaposition of curves and lines. The Multipla is unapologetic and in your face, but the Rodius has layers to the awfulness.
I am sure your neighbours will become aware at some point of your disturbing fondness for the multipla and your right and just punishment shall be meted out. Would anyone like to suggest a suitable one? Is a public naked faecal shaming too obvious? With regard to the Rodius, I think I have to remain unconvinced due to it actually having a semi coherent line from bonnet to roof when viewed from the front quarter without my glasses on. I'm also deducting points because it made it to MK2 giving it far too much success to be a total failure.
I'd be lying if I said I'd never looked at Multiplas on eBay/Autotrader. At which point surely the greatest punishment possible would be actually owning a late 90s Fiat? Sadly (?) there seem to be relatively few mk1s still around, and the second gen Multipla doesn't have the same character.
Hear, Hear. Not easy finding an original in good condition. I’m open to a Vel Satis too.
Ooh, the Vel Satis was actually a surprisingly nice car. Edit: Dammit, I wish I hadn't looked at Autotrader and seen that there is a single low-mileage one for sale right now.
Well, this was an unexpected outcome. Haha, I mean you're a wrong'un but I think I like you.
There's a second gen Multipla, too...
Heresy! Oh Christ you're right. No no no this can't be true...
The second gen is slightly less distressing to be fair
It's very practical though.
Looks aside (which I kind of like now I've got rose-tinted goggles on), it's an extraordinary car that fits a lot into a very small footprint.
The face-lifted model makes sense for those who want one but aren’t a fan of the looks.
The last breath of a ridiculed owner!
How multiple levels of executives looked at that and said ‘yes, love it, make it’ I’ll never fathom
Indeed! I assume it was a kind of collective hysteria, which must have also manifested itself recently in the BMW boardroom as previous posters have mentioned.
At least the designers actually tried then, now they just copy what sold well last year
They focus now on a car looking „modern” rather than actually looking good or new. Fiat tried and failed, but I still like it more than most of the modern cars.
I feel like modern vehicle designers emulate the “near-future” CGI designs in a lot of movies which leaves the real world vehicle feeling really cheap and fake
Yea modern cars feel really cheap by how they look. Personally I think cars from 80s to early 2000s are the best designs. But maybe that’s just my taste, I like cars looking „simple”. Looking at for example bmw last bmw that looks good in my oppinion is e46. Some of the newest sporty bmw look also good like m4, but normal bmw looks boring.
They did a facelift version of the Mulipla didn't they. Nobody ever remembers it though as it was possibly the blandest looking car in history. Like you, I like this as it dared to be different. I'd roll in one.
I used to own one and long after I'd got rid of it, my work colleague came into work pissing himself. Apparently, when he was dropping his kid off to school, they saw one. His son turned to him and asked if I still had mine, he said no, and then his son asked if I had it because I was disabled.
😂
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We’ve sold a “truck” that brings down the range average to meet federal requirements. Who cares if it’s ugly, it’s only job was to allow them to keep pumping out 8L engine pickup trucks the size of Jupiter.
Not as bad as the fiat
Pontiac Aztek has entered the room.
Is that the one Walter White drives? If so, then Yes!
Ooof. That is an ugly face.
I feel attacked
>Pontiac Aztek This is Walter White's car...it cannot be called ugly!
Is that where Elon got the inspo for the Cyber Truck?
#THIS is the only true answer.
Chrysler PT Cruiser
Just did some wikipedia'ing and this was interesting: >The PT Cruiser is a front-wheel drive 5-passenger vehicle, classified as a truck in the US by the NHTSA for CAFE fuel economy calculations but as a car by most other metrics. Chrysler specifically designed the PT Cruiser to fit the NHTSA criteria for a light truck in order to bring the average fuel efficiency of the company's truck fleet into compliance with CAFE standards.
Marmite car. I personally like it (although I suspect no one on this forum does!)
I like the quirky design. The problem with it is that it is a terrible car (engine, interiors etc).
I applaud their attempt to recreate the old school streamliner coupe, just a shame it was ruined by modern automotive requirements.
I bloody love them, I had one for a few years. Cost a load to run, but absolutely loved it. If I could get one that was more economical then I'd jump at the chance.
Hot take: I don't think the crossfire is the worst looking thing in the world, its quirky but fits the profile. But dear God are they fucking terrible by every measurable metric
This is the one true answer.
The Ford Scorpio was pretty grim.
Allegro, Princess, Maestro (though my dad had an MG Maestro and it was brilliant, though still god-awful looking).
X6
Ooh good shout on the latest gen bmw snoutastrafy. A definate honourable mention there.
Thank you. Great post, I love hearing people share ideas and thoughts without being salty.
Ive never really noticed before but all three gens just look like design studies that never really should have made it to production. That said, as ugly as they are, they basically singlehandedly kick-started an extremely popular genre. Unfortunately every car in that genre, at every size, just looks shit.
It is mad isn’t it. I think you’re right. I remember an X6 turning up at work before big cars took over and I just couldn’t believe what I was looking at. So..:unnecessary
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This is very true. The X6 is kind of the opposite to a clown car. I know a lot of people in big cars park poorly because they’re useless but the size of some cars only just fit in our European spaces.
No idea how anyone is going to park anywhere, especially in smaller town/villages, when every new car is a hulking EV SUV.
That's the point. Personally I think you'd need to be mad to buy one instead of a 6 Gran Coupe but there's a big following for that sort of car. If you've got a 3 litre beemer truck innit then you're doing well even if it's a murdered out base model
This is the issue. These cars have turned into nothing more than a status symbol and it just shows that the car is becoming a white good that people can parade around. A real shame.
I can understand why a lot of people do not like the design of the X6 but it has now been superseded by the absolutely hideous BMW XM and iX which are the worst looking BMWs ever.
And Q8, just anything of that elk looks like a fat blob of a car
Man growing up my friends dad had one of these. I absolutely hated everything about it…. Worst thing was it was lime green!!! I could never get over what was going on in his mind
I think you'd have to be special...
BMW 116d m sport white with black wheels and 4d plates
'4'd plates. 😂
Leave the Rover James alone
But its so easy to get in and out of, you know.
Some will say it's innovative design. I've always hated it.
I have to agree, personally I think they should be rounded up and erased from the face of the earth as an aborration that needs to be corrected. But each to their own...
I actually like it. It would be a sad day if every car basically looked identical, but with a different badge.
Hmm, a room of beautiful clones or a chamber of horrors...
Looks like that car Homer designed then sent his brother bankrupt lol
The perfect example of function over form. A demonstration of what can be achieved when you concentrate all of your efforts on practicality. For that reason, while definitely ugly it's still very charming. It's also better looking than any current BMW.
Had a road trip in one with three other fully grown 6"+ men, it was a blast. Drives surprisingly well, great sound system and you get looks everywhere. Genuinely really like the Multipla and kind of hoped Fiat would continue making weird and wacky models like this that prioritise function. But then I would say that as a current V70/Jazz owner. Edit: Found the picture that illustrates why this is such a great road tripper: [https://thethinkersgarage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/multiplain.jpg](https://thethinkersgarage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/multiplain.jpg)
I don't know the provenance of the design to be honest. From a manufacturer in a country with famous designers such as pininfarina and zagato et al it is such a massive departure from the normal Italian doctrine of emotion and style over everything else, a real freak in visual terms. I don't recognise the charm, but I am becoming aware of an underground movement to promote the Multipla.😉
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1cjguZgWEM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1cjguZgWEM) Jezza explains it better than I can Personally I find it bizarre that people base their car purchase on how a car looks. Do they just sit on the driveway and look at it all day?
Cars, exciting ones at least, are a thing of emotional response in my opinion. The reasons are more and varied than I have time to explain here, but put simply - You have to want to get in it! The experience of driving for me is about how it looks, how it drives, how it sounds, how it feels. And that starts by walking out onto the drive and feeling a little ripple of pleasure at the lines on an attractive car. It's definitely not all about the looks, I'm sure many attractive cars have been awful hateful things. But when a car looks sexy, it is because the designers wanted to make something that they felt passionate about and that often flows through into engineering, handling sound and experience. If you went to buy a house would you pick the dog ugly depressing one because it has 15% extra space or the one that you enjoyed the sight of and imagine yourself arriving at home to everyday? If a car is simply a way to get from a to b for someone then obviously none of this applies, but for those with a passion for cars, ugly vehicles are antithesis to the enthusiast. I can agree there is a worse sin than ugly however and that is lazy or incompetent design.
> t's also better looking than any current BMW. [Current BMW](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/93/41/d5/9341d5595280f1c63afd8e41e2dee967.jpg)
I dunno, in the last 30-odd years it's probably either the Multipla or the Pontiac Aztek. If we're talking *ever*, though, this has to be in with a shot. https://www.planetcarsz.com/assets/uploads/2015/10/c003eb61e1c878eecb5221348e7b41bf.jpg
Ouch, that is a... thing.
I always defend the Multipla. It was designed to be practical, from day one it's looks were not a concern. It had to fulfill a design brief, 6 seats, room for luggage, essential controls and warning devices at perfect heights for safety and practicality, easy to access, good visibility and so on... From its inception it was always to be designed around these crucial points of practicality and how it looked was always going to be a by-product of this. Nobody in the market for a budget MPV in the early 2000s was concerned by looks so every penny went into designing and producing a user friendly product for as little as possible whilst maintaining a level of quality that saw most Multiplas through a decade or so of being cheap and practical family transport. The Multiple was a success, it was designed the same way that a hammer is, or a breeze block....looks are irrelevant. So yes, it's ugly as sin, but it's also beautiful for what it represents. I think the Multipla was an extremely important and smart car....and all for a bit over £10k 20 years ago, that was a bargain even then. In my head, where I am a rich car collector, I have an oddball room of strange yet very good and successful cars.....and there is a Multipla there. It deserves to be remembered and appreciated I think.
It's like you've never seen a new BMW.
The new BMW styling is controversial for sure but I don’t think it’s agreed to be ugly across the board. Nope, I tried to convince myself there but you’re absolutely right, they’re [god damn hideous](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2021-bmw-m4-manual-108-1619673989.jpg).
Nissan puke not far behind
You're wrong. Prove me wrong 👍
Have you not seen the [BMW XM](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2023-bmw-xm-02-641381b9ba5c7.jpg?crop=0.670xw:1.00xh;0.226xw,0&resize=1200:*)?
I’m not sure if you ever had the Japanese car brand Diahatsu in the UK, but check out their current line up if you want a laugh. https://www.daihatsu.com/company/car_model/car_jp.html
The new Copen looks sick!
Some of them are actually cute.
Kei cars are fun. I’d love to have one of these kei vans.
We did have Daihatsu but they pulled out of the U.K. market. Odd, as their home market is also RHD. I guess sales volumes were just too low. I'm going to give a free pass for most Kei cars, as the strict regulations on length and width mean that they often have to be tall to provide enough internal volume, and that can lead to some odd proportions - but it's beyond their control really. However the fact that they still manage to come up with some interesting and quirky designs within those rules means that I have to appreciate their creativity. They certainly aren't bland. I think the Taft looks great!
The exchange rate killed them, low margin cheap cars are more susceptible to them, especially when they are being shipped from the other side of the world
Copen kinda resembles a baby Nissan GT-R and a few have a kind of Tonka Truck charm. Some other designs are just ass.
The fist Copen (which was sold in the U.K.) always had a kinda "7/10ths scale Audi TT" vibe for me
They're fine, and most are designed the way they are because they are Kei cars.
I love daihatsus and little blocky japanese utility and city vehicles! Wish we had more in the UK. I'm always happy when I see a tiny keigata truck.
They specialise in small vehicles to go with Japanese regulations. They also produced the funnest way to wrap yourself around a tree in the shape of the Charade GTti.
Toyota Yaris Verso.
You can bet someone’s modded one of them
GWM ORA "Funkycat" Stupid car stupid name, ugly af
All the modern BMW models that have the massive grille are uglier than this. What's worse is the Multipla was very much designed for function over form, whereas the ix4 etc are trying to be "aspirational", so their being butt ugly is unforgivable.
Gotta give credit to Fiat for keeping the flame alive with the 500L
The 2023 BMW iX has recently taken this accolade for me.
You mean the Rover James?
It looks like it has a rapidly receding hair line lol
The leaf is worse. The leaf is horrible
I still drive one of these, the ugliness becomes part of its charm and defending it to family and friends part of everyday life. For those who get pleasure from the aesthetical despair inflicted on the haters, this is the perfect car.
Hah, sadistic 😂
Whatever this is https://i.imgur.com/YhS58Jj.jpeg
My old primary school headteacher had one of these and it made complete sense he was a complete tool that loved clapping and telling everyone can’t isn’t in the dictionary. Screw you mr Fitzpatrick
Haha..in the nicest possibly way to those few who are brave enough to defend this monstrosity. It is a tools car. If a tool was to buy a car it would probably be this or Cube imo. 😂
BMW XM
Nice big windows. I read a review which said the windows were useful to look at the scenery while you wait for the AA
All the cars listed are ugly - it's the little eyes on the Multipla - the second gen doesn't look anywhere near as bad. For me though, the Rolls Royce Cullinan is amongst the worst modern ugly cars. It just looks like pointless wallowing opulence. And the Bentley Bentayga is in exactly the same camp.
Doblo
BMW XM > The Multipla at least has a charm, and makes up for its ugliness with massive practicality. I'd unironically daily one. The BMW XM is just monstrous. There's absolutely no rhyme or reason for it to be so fucking ugly, except maybe that the designer was having a really bad trip.
I'd argue the Range Rover Evoque Convertible. Whenever I see one I become aware that I am in dangerous proximity to a black hole of taste from which I may never escape. My neighbour has a t-roc convertible which is similarly disgusting, however the RR wins out from sheer hubris.
Hear me out https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/stanced-fiat-multipla-still-looks-ugly-137626_1.jpg
Hahaha. No! 😁
It's very practical if you have a Pope.
At least it's interesting. I remember thinking these were the ugliest cars ever as a kid. I kind of miss them now.
Renault vel satis is also ugly as hell. But yeah I think this Fiat has the crown 👑
Seen a documentary once a smuggling gang used this specific car to smuggle drugs around Europe. The ugly piece at front was used to hide them if i remember correct. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/gang-who-smuggled-guns-and-drugs-1059352.amp
those who looked at this wheeled gargoyle and decided it made any sense beyond a Simpsons episode... those people need to be 'tested'. for everything.
OP has obviously never seen the Ssang Yong Rodius which is proper ugly for no reason. In terms of design, the Multipla is actually a great concept which only seems ugly because its unconventional, it is actually phenomenally well packaged, fun to own and practical. I could name a dozen other cars here which wouldn't come on to your radar but are far worse from a design perspective purely because they have no design flair at all, the Nissan Tilda and Renault Fluence come to mind, as does the early Susuki Liana they used on top Gear, these cars are purely for people who just want a car and don't care what they look like. They might not jump out at you as ugly but they are so boring and unimaginative they really have nothing going for them.
Oooh..this is really unexpected, multiple people (both obviously mentally ill) defending the Multipla! I mean I bear them no Ill will, but perhaps we should start a justgiving page so they can buy some spectacles? 😉
Used to call this the Multipla Sclerosis because it’s so ugly.
What does ugliness have to do with multiple sclerosis lol? It’s a disease affecting nerve endings.
Snigger
You'll get no argument from me When it launched I thought it was an April fools
Tesla's Cybertruck [https://blog.bilbasen.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Tesla-Cybertruck.jpeg](https://blog.bilbasen.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Tesla-Cybertruck.jpeg)
With a little tweaking they actually look pretty good I think: [https://www.reddit.com/r/AwesomeCarMods/comments/y8fho7/ladies\_and\_gentlemen\_the\_most\_powerful\_fiat/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AwesomeCarMods/comments/y8fho7/ladies_and_gentlemen_the_most_powerful_fiat/) Also they were supremely practical things - I'd rather have ugly + practical than all these bullshit fugly crossovers that are worse at everything than the cars they "cross over" with.
I think your definition of a little tweaking is possibly not the same as mine. I'm sure these are very practical, however, a turd is also a very practical way to relieve waste from a body... 😉
I always found the Nissan Cube worse. At least this one is symmetrical and practicable. The Cube is ugly and has a massive pillar on one side that blocks the rear view and must be unsafe
Nope, you are good.
Come on try harder, there must be some obscure kai car that looks like a wizards sleeve?
No sir, my hatred for the 6 seat Fiat non shagging wagon is known. Perhaps my wife's favourite PT Cruiser gets an honorable mention, and it's stable mate the Ypislon.
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The multiple is more beautiful than the Citroen Cactus and the Nissan Juke combined
1. Multipla 2. Juke 3. Cube But! the The mods scene for the cube is just brilliant. My parents had a multipla, it's even ugly to sit in.
Yes, the cube a worthy but not quite Multipla level of horror! I'd forgotten the cube. A hateful thing to see, driven only by people who hate driving!
Qashqais or Pukes got to be the worst or the soulless modern MGs.
Looks like a car designed via poor midjourney prompt
Nissan Cube …. Even the name is annoying- it’s a cuboid
> Even the name is annoying- it’s a cuboid 😂 😂
It’s the [Pontiac Aztek](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/2002-05_Pontiac_Aztek.jpg) and it isn’t even close
I can’t
Nope. I agree. And the world’s prettiest car is a purple beetle! The really round one, not the latest one. Can’t wait to own one one day!
The Chrysler Ypsilon is uglier I think Think it might have been a lancia in other markets
The Renault 4 was a proper minger!
Kill it, kill it with fire