What is the ugliest car ever?

We’re not just talking about bad looking cars here. Not even mild deformities will pass the grade. No, what we’re after is a list of the most vile and unforgivable assaults on our visual senses; cars that have fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch, leaf and twig on the way down and then been crapped on by the ugly bird for good measure.

Below, we've detailed our personal favourites and we’d like you to join in. Tell us what you think should be given this unenviable title in the space below. We'll then feature the best of the worst.

Alistair Weaver - Editor
The Testarossa was everything that was wrong with Ferrari in the 1980s. Instead of building pure, sensual cars for true enthusiasts, they started producing show ponies for poncing premadonnas and pre-pubescent boys. The Testarossa was the poster boy for a generation of cars that made vulgarity an art form.

Ferrari design had, for generations, been characterised by the harmonious blend of form and function. Cars such as the 250 GTO had an elegant simplicity that remains as relevant today as ever. With its ridiculous side strakes, exaggerated shoulders and hidden taillights, the Testarossa was anything but elegant or simple. It was an icon of a time when the Prancing Horse had truly lost its way.

Jon Quirk – Associate Editor
Legend has it that, upon the occasion of the unveiling of the seventh model in Triumph’s TR series, design icon Giorgetto Giugiaro slowly walked around the car, drinking in the details and proportions.

When he reached half way around British Leyland’s latest offering he stopped dead in his tracks. The collected BL big-wigs held their breath in anticipation of the guru’s opinion.

"My God!” Exclaimed Giugiaro, “They've done it to the other side as well!"

The TR7 went on to be an unmitigated disaster. Not only was it criminally slow and unreliable, it was also so ugly that it single-handedly managed to cock its leg on Triumph’s glittering past. Truly vile.

Owen Ready – Staff Writer
So Alistair thinks that that Testarossa is the ugliest car ever? Obviously he’s never seen Miami Vice or my candidate for the wooden spoon, the 1998 Buick Signia concept.

Here is a car so visually putrid that even General Motors, the company that gave us such beauties as the Pontiac Aztec, couldn’t bring themselves to build it.

It’s as though it was ‘designed’ by passing a folded piece of paper around the office with each recipient drawing the individual components without seeing the others.

The already hideous result of this exercise then contracted Elephantitis and was painted ginger before being plonked onto a motor show stand before a brace of astonished onlookers.

Right, you've seen ours, now let's see what you think should enter our list in that box thingy below...