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I came across a funny site the other day: Peter’s Site on Multiply.com. This portion of his site is dedicated to finding and discussing the ugliest cars in the world. So far nine have been nominated.

Here is my rank of his nine nominees. I’ve linked to pictures of the cars. The order is from least ugly to most ugly. This only includes the cars nominated on Peter’s Site.

1. Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren
   What’s the deal with this nomination? Sure, the bumper’s jumbo Mercedes logo is a bit obtrusive and annoying, but this car is still pretty nice, in my opinion.
   
2. Lesux SC340
   I suppose the nomination here comes from the curved rear of the car. It admittedly doesn’t look that great from behind. But there are uglier cars.
   
3. Ferrari Enzo
   It’s certainly obnoxious and over the top with its sportiness. But it’s still pretty sleek. Not a beauty by a long shot, but it still has a nice, if strong, luxurious flavor to it.
   
4. Pontiac Aztek
   The Aztek is not a pretty car. It can’t quite decide if it’s going to be sporty in a suburban sort of way or rugged in a pickup truck sort of way. The end result is a sort of boxy mishmash that just doesn’t do much for the eyes.
   
5. AMC Pacer
   Station wagons are almost inherently tacky. But the Pacer’s obnoxious dome-style windows on its rears don’t help its case.
   
6. Honda Element (seen above)
   Ugly from the front, ugly from the rear, ugly from the side, ugly from any isometric perspective — yep, the Honda Element is one heck of an ugly car.
7. AMC Gremlin
   I’ve seen pictures of Gremlins that aren’t terrible. With the right paint job on the right model from the right angle, it’s got a certain muscle car feel that’s almost classy. But nearly every picture you see will confirm that the Gremlin is in fact a very ugly car.
8. BMW Isetta
   It doesn’t even look like a car. It looks like an especially cramped go-kart with a closed top, or something. The door opening in the front is just weird. If BMW wanted to do something cool with their car, they should have thought Delorean. Anything other than that ridiculous door in the front would have worked.
   
9. Fiat Multipla
   Even someone good with Photoshop couldn’t distort a picture car to make it uglier than a Multipla. It’s just hideous and obnoxious. That weird hunk of car that sits sort of in the center of the design — why is it there? Did someone actually think it would be a good idea to put it there? Was it the result of some sort of freak car factory accident?

Discuss: What is the ugliest car on this list? Can you think of any ugly cars that weren’t included in the discussion?

Anyone who visits digg.com or reddit.com nowadays is bound to have seen some of Cracked.com’s feature articles, which are very often in list form. A lot of what’s on Cracked is among the funniest stuff I’ve seen on the ‘net, and this feature is no exception; it’s one of my favorites from the site.

The article provides exactly what the title promises, with plenty of humorous commentary along the way. Without spoiling anything, I think I was laughing out loud the entire time while reading what the site had written about #1 on this list. Top notch all around.

So if you think you might find remarks making fun of the music of Color Me Badd and Vanilla Ice entertaining, I wholeheartedly recommend you check this out.