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Its funny how people have different opinions about cars.
To me:
The VW Thing was a cool ass car. Convertable, litterally take it apart with one sized wrench, easy in gas, and basically cheap to repair.

Subaru WRX; One of the fastest grocery getters out there. Awsome speed and handling, yet the cops will leave you alone.

Ugly to me; Late 70s Mustang, K cars, Saabs, anything Saturn, PT cruisers, and Hyundai Accent.

I had one of these beauties, same color and year but with a black vinyl top. Ugliest car I ever owned, but I bought it with 100K miles on it, and drove it another 100k before the wheels fell off. Averaged about 32 mpg to boot and never ever got stuck in the snow... Funny thing is I kind off miss it.

I agree completely with your assessments of the VW Thing and the Subaru WRX.

(DW drives a Subaru Legacy sedan that is hands down the best overall driving/handling/SHTF family car we have ever owned. I wanted a WRX. I didn't get one, but the Legacy is still nice.)

I grew up a Mopar guy, and even I can't abide the looks of K cars, although we had a Dodge of that ilk that never gave us more trouble than the occasional serpentine belt (and finally a head gasket... long after we tired of the car itself). And yes, Saabs have been oddly ugly, even compared to Volvos; it is almost as if the Swedes have a total two people at any given time working as product designers, and they both specialize in furniture.

My personal long-time styling pet peeve has been Buicks, Buicks and Buicks: toothy grilles, pointless phony orifii and puckered butts apparently appeal to enough people to justify keeping that division and letting Olds & Pontiac roll to oblivion, but I can't fathom why.

Mr. niteowl77