Lately, there has been a great uprising of ugly cars out on the roads, cars so ugly I don’t know why a manufacturer would even consider proceeding further than initial sketches, let alone go on to mass produce it.
The car which immediately comes to my mind is the abstract work by Fiat; the Fiat Multipa.
Beautifully ugly in every single way, and if you squint and rotate your head 45º, you can kind of see it resembling a car. Sure, the bottom half looks like a car, but the top bit looks like some sort of minivan, backed by the fact they added a pair of headlights on that top module.
I don’t think it would be outrageous to assume that Fiat found that it needed to merge two design team’s ideas in an effort to cut down on product development.
The question which complements “why would someone make that?” is “why would someone buy that?” Do people actually know they drive ugly cars? If I were to buy a car of that equal disgustingness, I would be embarrassed to be kidnapped in the boot of that car, or even embarrassed by just standing next to it (just if someone has mentality to even think I own the car).
I bet you this car came with a 100% in-mail rebate. It must have.
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Not that long ago I would’ve agreed with you (I used to call it ‘the car with a tumour’). But since my dad bough a Multipla (to make it even worse, in an ugly frog-greenish color), the car has grown on me. The inside makes up for alot for one. And when on the road, Multipla owners seem to wave at each other when passing by. To me this is so astonishingly cute that I do not have the power to think ill of Multipla any more. Lately I’ve saying that it has ‘character’ instead of calling it ‘just plain ugly’ (which in fact, would still be true, ofcourse).
I completely see what you mean. I sometimes have this tendency to grow to like, and then defend things that I own or have a close relationship to, no matter how heinous.
That aside, wouldn’t you agree that FIAT seems a bit loopy to create such an odd looking car in the first place?
I agree, I agree so much that I went out and found a blog article from someone who absolutely loves this vehicle and left a comment, which is yet to be approved.
Click this link: http://catetoblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/in-homage-of-fiat-multipla.html
^ Dylan, your comment has been published already.
I am the writer of the above mentioned blog, and in the linked article, I explain why I love the Fiat Multipla. I own a Fiat Multipla since 2002, and I can tell you something: right now, I am in the process of looking at possible alternatives to replace my beloved Multiple when it gets too old. And you know what? I have a big problem, because there is no such alternative. If you have a family of 6 people like me, you need a car like the Fiat Multipla. Unfortunately its production stopped last year, and more unfortunately, the only real competitor of the Multipla, the Honda FR-V, also disappeared from the market some months ago.
In my opinion, the Fiat Multiple occupied a niche in the cars market; that niche is small but does exist, and at this time, families like mine have no good alternatives regarding cars; either you buy a standard minivan with 5 + 2 seats (the latter being good only for kids, and leaving no space for luggage), or else you have to buy a large van with 7 real seats and a good luggage volume. None of them is remotely comparable, either in size, convenience or price, to the Fiat Multipla.