Top Ten Ugliest Sports
Cars
Sports cars are supposed to be objects
of desire. Beautiful, stylish and well, for want of a better
word, sporty.
They are not supposed to be a mismatched and disjointed collection
of parts thrown together to resemble a car.
Some of the sports cars featured here may be very capable machines,
with high-performance engines and superb handling. But unfortunately
for the onlooker style has either taken a back seat to engineering
performance, or missed the ride altogether.
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Salica
GT
The Salica GT should be much better looking than it is because
it's based on the great looking Noble M12. Essentially what
Salica do is take a perfectly good M12, and then assault it
with a horrific bodykit which completely destroys the car's
appearance from every angle.
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Avanti
Avanti has had a long and bumpy history which has seen the
'Avanti' name change hands several times, and production locations
and platforms change just as much.
The Avanti's ugliness stems from the mixture of badly fitting
lights - both front and back, and the slab-like body panels
which have about as much interest as a blank piece of paper.
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Jetstream
SC250
Because Jetstream is a small company just starting out in
the world of car manufacturing you can forgive them for not
making the prettiest car on the block. Especially when it
performs as well as it does. But surely it would have been
a good idea to spend more than 15 minutes designing the bodywork.
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Mosler
Raptor
It's hard to believe that Mosler, the same company who make
the stunning MT900S,
also produced this freak of nature at one time.
The Raptor was a function driven design with great performance,
but the styling looked more like the work of a preschool project
than a supercar manufacturer.
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IFR
Automotive Aspid
At best the IFR Automotive Aspid's styling could be described
as 'unique'. But most people would call it downright awful.
If it wasn't for the utterly insane performance figures it
offers the Aspid would be a complete waste of space.
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Mitsuoka
Himiko
Mitsuoka have a long history of copying the shape of traditional
British sports cars and basing them on more common running
gear.
The great-pretender that is the Himiko, is based on the Mazda
MX-5's platform.
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Lister
Storm
The Lister Storm was a beast from the 90s which had a Jaguar-sourced
7.0 litre V12 mounted up front. Powerful it was, pretty it
wasn't.
The angular styling looks dated and mismatched, and the boring
rectangular grilles at the front don't do it any favors either.
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Works Automotive X1
Of all the cars on the list this one probably deserves to
be here the least. It's not essentially ugly, but it is unoriginal,
and all the different elements like the headlights, fog lights
and various grilles look over the top and disjointed.
Although a 500 hp 2.0 litre 4 cylinder does go some way to
easing the visual discomfort.
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GDT
Speedster
Thankfully the GDT Speedster is a one-off sports car so your
chances of ever seeing it are limited. Based on a Corvette
drivetrain the GDT Speedster was capable of 170 mph, so if
you do see it hopefully it won't last long. The problems with
the cars styling starts at the front - where the headlights
and grille look like an afterthought, and continue throughout
the design.
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Blast
Automotive Blast
The Blast is a driver orientated sports car, and therefore
is meant to please the guy behind the wheel and nobody else.
Which is a good thing because the awkward bodywork is a complete
disaster from start to finish. It does look purposeful - but
at the cost of style.
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