8 FUGLIEST Design Flaws EVER!

Perhaps the hardest thing a designer has to do is find the perfect balance between form and function. This perfect balance can be seen in a lot of modern vehicles, buildings and even tools and utensils, but alas not all designs get there, with some failing to do the very thing they were designed for and others just making you want to gouge your eyes out!
Here are the 8 Ugliest Design Flaws EVER!

1. The Bond Bug
Designed and produced in the 1970's (as if that orange color didn't give that away) it was capable of doing 76mph and was very light. only around 2000 were made and that was for a variety of different reasons, for one thing 76mph isn,t such a good thing in a flimsy car that only has three wheels and the other is that it's really ugly, its sooo bad that even that horrible orange color can't make it any worse.

2. Airbus Beluga
The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter) or beluga was named after the beluga whale. Although its definitely practical, it has 53,000 cubic feet of cargo area and can carry over 100,000 pounds of cargo, it isn't pretty, it looks like a normal a300 with a lump stuck on top. The designer went for load capacity and aerodynamics and left aesthetics behind in the slipstream.

3. Ford Pinto
If you look up the word "bland" in the dictionary you'll see a picture of the ford pinto. well not really, but it would be the epiphany dull design if it wasn't because of one other design flaw it had. in 1978 ford had to recall 1.5 million cars due to a design flaw in the fuel tank which after a rear end collision could explode. although I doubt that even the fear of an imminent explosion could make this car exciting.

4. Vought V173
well this planes got it all hasn't it? ugly, clumsy and impractical. yes it was a prototype, but even so..... The idea was that it could fly like a plane and then up end itself and land like a helicopter, but why not turn the propellers instead of the entire plane? How can the pilot land it if he's looking up into the sky? and why oh why make it so damn ugly?

5. Mcdonnell XF-85 goblin
I suppose this one is more comical than ugly. comical in aesthetics, it looks like it came out of a cartoon. comical in concept, it was supposed to be attached to bomber planes and be able to detach to defend against enemy fighters and then reattach afterwards. and comical in design, it had no landing gear! out of seven attempted flights the goblin only reattached successfully on 3, the pilot was forced to belly land on the other four and even worse was that the enemy fighter planes were faster and more manoeuvrable than the goblin.

6. Pontiac Aztec
"Pontiac aztec" is latin for "pig ugly" or should be! this mid size crossover was supposedly marketed for the "generation x" but didn't really get there. its trying to be futuristic in a mundane way and doesn't really stand out for any other reason than that its ugly. so ugly, that you could use it in a "your mamma" joke!

7. Boeing 707-344c Phalcon
I like to call this one the Gerard depardieu of the aviation world! basically its a 707 with a clown nose stuck on it. Its for military use and is intended for airborne early warning, tactical surveillance of airborne and surface targets and intelligence gathering. and because its military, practicality is everything, aesthetics, not so much!

8. Trabant
This East German car was aptly named "the spark plug with a roof" the trabant wasn't just lacking in beauty though, it had no rev counter, no indicator for either the headlights or turn signals, no fuel gauge, no rear seat belts, and no external fuel door, the owner had to pour the two stroke mix directly into the fuel tank under the hood.

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[dhanapiereza]

That beluga designed to carry cargo effectively and efficiently. Not beautifully.

[cmbhey]

A friend's car had the battery inside the car under the passenger seat. Problem was, that she needed a new battery and the car was dead. The seats were electric!! What the f?#!!