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Jasper · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject: Ugly American cars

But which is uglier?

Colin thinks this is prettier (less ugly)

than this tat, which I think is slightly better.

Sorry it's the only picture I have of the Toyota.

OMG they are both horrible.

BeN · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject:

I don't know which to choose, honestly.
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Matt · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject:

The Monte seems to be paying a piss-poor homage to the beautiful 70s versions, so for that, it's more of a fraud.
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Sav · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:53 pm Post subject:

Who voted for the last option....

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M. · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

I'd say the Toyota was more actively ugly, the Chevy is less ugly on account of being more boring but that doesn't make it forgivable.
It's too close to call so I vote option 3, aka a draw.
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Colin · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

As few of you will have been "privileged" to see a Solara in the metal, I thought a couple more pictures might help you to decide here:

BeN · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject:

It looks like a poor copy of the Lexus SC430, which itself isn't exactly elegant to begin with.
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kraftwerk · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

Weirdly, there was Cadillac BSE, or whatever it's called, parked outside my house yesterday morning. Then I saw another about two hours later about 500 yards further up the road. Is this a UK record?
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Matt · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject:

Got to be. I've seen two on different days and about 10 miles from each other and that was a surely just a coincidence.
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canadian bacon · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:34 am Post subject:

hmm, privilege is not the word I'd use......put simply if they were both on fire......

....I'd have plenty to keep my hands warm, they're both pants.
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kraftwerk · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:20 pm Post subject:

I saw a few Solaras while in California in November and, well, I didn't think it looked to bad, for its genre.

So sue me.
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Twelfth Monkey · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject:

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject:

This is a "would you rather have AIDS or Ebola" question. But the Toyota gets it for sheer ungainliness.

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Li'ldude · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject:

The Monte is a poor take on the Prelude, the Solara is too... too... too...
...ummm...
...long.
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