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[Rasputin]

This topic should be interesting.

 

Edited by Rasputin, 19 February 2015 - 06:28.

[DanardiF1]

The 70's is a goldmine for absolutely awful cars... there were way too many blind men working in sheet metal in the 70's methinks!

[MikeV1987]

Caterham CT05

 

honorable mention going to the BMW Sauber F1.09

Edited by MikeV1987, 19 February 2015 - 06:56.

[Redback]

^ We have a winner...^

[RedBaron]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank god they were banned.

Edited by RedBaron, 19 February 2015 - 08:49.

[GoldenColt]

All the cars which didn't win the 2009 WDC or WCC.

[Brother Fox]

I loved the walrus

[RedBaron]

I loved the walrus

 

I apologise. I don't think it was the ugliest, just ugly.

[Gilles4Ever]

 

 

 

 

[maverick69]

Caterham CT05

 

 

 

God bless "The Greenest Penis" 

Edited by maverick69, 19 February 2015 - 09:06.

[Rob]

The regular car wasn't so bad, but the Monaco version was horrific.

 

 

And how about the teapot?

 

Edited by Rob, 19 February 2015 - 09:26.

[midgrid]

Airbox!

 

[DampMongoose]

[DampMongoose]

[Henri Greuter]

All the non championship cars of 2006, 2007 and 2008, with the Hondas and Sauber-BMW's and the Toyotas topping the list.

 

 

Too many to post.....

 

Henri

 

 

Edit,

 

Come to think of it, Extend the range fram 2005-2008 to 2006-2014......

 

 

Henri

Edited by Henri Greuter, 19 February 2015 - 10:44.

[aguri]

I think some of these cars are pretty good looking. It's nice to see a distinctive car on the grid.

 

 

That Caterham though.....   

[Rasputin]

[showtime]

 

Really? 

[Victor_RO]

It may have been worse than dog-barf slow, but it's not what you'd call "ugly" tbh.

[Showty]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And, finally, all time favourites of mine, although not F1

 

Chaparral 2j

 

 

 

 

Chaparral 2H

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eagle Aircraft Flyer Chevy

 

 

Edited by Showty, 19 February 2015 - 11:17.

[TecnoRacing]

Arrows A2 I despise most of all...

 

I noticed some (obviously crazy!) person put this 'best-looking' car thread

Tony Southgate was a great designer, and produced some gorgeous racing cars...but to my mind this car was a bloated slug. With some major exceptions, I'd say, on balance, the ground effects era produced some pretty cluncky, nasty looking machinery.

 

[DS27]

Boy, people are posting some pictures of fantastic (if unique) cars considering this is supposedly an ugly car thread.

[HeidfeldsBeard]

 

That livery just reminds me of a fried egg!

[OO7]

That livery just reminds me of a fried egg!

And who ever was doing the frying didn't keep the yolk intact.

[Nonesuch]

 

Copersucar F5

 

 

Eagle Aircraft Flyer Chevy

 

That's quite the craft!

Edited by Nonesuch, 19 February 2015 - 12:01.

[ezequiel]

Boy, people are posting some pictures of fantastic (if unique) cars considering this is supposedly an ugly car thread.

 

Something tells me is the same people posting pics of current F1 cars in the best looking thread

[sopa]

I don't know about ugly, but some of these cars are genuinely funny. Impossible not to laugh!

 

SO...

 

 

But what can you do, that's evolution. Designers have had to try to out all kinds of experiments to get where we are.

[thiscocks]

The 70's is a goldmine for absolutely awful cars... there were way too many blind men working in sheet metal in the 70's methinks!

Closed cockpit conundrum solved!

[Ferrari_F1_fan_2001]

Did they not have wind tunnels in the 1970s???

[sopa]

 

 

 

Well, at first glance you'd think they attempted to make a Formula One powered aircraft.

Edited by sopa, 19 February 2015 - 12:13.

[Gridfire]

Did they not have wind tunnels in the 1970s???

 

Car aerodynamics were barely understood back then, the designs were catered more towards the mechanical necessities of low COG, wide wheels and cooling. The Lambo Muira from that era tended to try to flip over backwards due to the bad aerodynamic design, as an example of the lack of understanding. In F1 wings barely existed and were simple flat panels. In the late 70s, ground effects started to come into play, so design began to focus on the floor and airflow, but it wasn't until the 80s that the currently recognisable aerodynamic F1 car shape began to emerge. 

 

Back then there were far less restrictions on shapes and sizes of car parts and no one (appeared to) care a thing about how pretty the car was, as long as it went as fast as they knew how to build, and so you got some pretty wacky unique ideas. Frankly I prefer that era in terms of inventiveness than today's heavily restricted formula with enforced primitiveness in many areas (computer control, suspension, moving aero parts, braking, and a million other things). 

Edited by Gridfire, 19 February 2015 - 12:53.

[Rasputin]

[Rasputin]

It may have been worse than dog-barf slow, but it's not what you'd call "ugly" tbh.

Yes it was, totally out of proprtions with the long nose, tiny sidepods and bulbous rear.

[Henri Greuter]

 

 

Well, I know this car was an utter failure but to me at least it still looks more eye appealing that the current highnosed multifinned overstretched long wheel base things with a book shrank between the rear wing. I'm not gonna say it's beautiful but the proportions are better than what we see nowadays.

 

Story goes that the car appeared at the Goodwood FoS and on that occasion the engine ran longer and better than ever in it's entire actual F1 career.....

 

 

Henri

[Atreiu]

1996 Ferrari.

To be fair it is not the worse car. But it is the first car I think of when I think of ugly F1 cars.

Edited by Atreiu, 19 February 2015 - 13:39.

[ninetyzero]

Renault R27 makes my eyes hurt..

[Sheepmachine]

This.

[ninetyzero]

Well, I know this car was an utter failure but to me at least it still looks more eye appealing that the current highnosed multifinned overstretched long wheel base things with a book shrank between the rear wing. I'm not gonna say it's beautiful but the proportions are better than what we see nowadays.

 

Story goes that the car appeared at the Goodwood FoS and on that occasion the engine ran longer and better than ever in it's entire actual F1 career.....

 

 

Henri

 

Couldn't agree more. Modern cars are narrower but much longer, not a good look.

[Rasputin]

"That ain't no scoop...this is a scoop!"

 

[Tsarwash]

http://f1-grandprix....cade/pete11.jpg

That is fugly. 

[PlatenGlass]

Are championship winning cars all so ugly that they had to be excluded from this thread?

[Atreiu]

They have the other thread.

[djned]

my eyes...the goggles do nothing...

Edited by djned, 20 February 2015 - 07:51.

[Richard T]

Ronnie got to drive a lot of ugly cars, as this topic suggestes. However, he also got to drive the most beautiful of them all! Lotus 72...


That LIFE was a beauty btw, although it's background is a bit messy

[A Day In The Life]

Wowza, that March 751 is all kinds of ugly....

[A Day In The Life]

But the March 711 is definitely worse....

[A Day In The Life]

....and I raise you a Brabham BT34

[kimster89]

Cant believe how many horiffic creatures have been living in F1 down the years..

[Gilles4Ever]

there were some lovely variations of that car

[Gilles4Ever]

The 39 with Weslake V12