There's one big problem here, however. This thing is ugly. At certain angles it looks decent. The rear has a nice, clean modern look to it. Looked at straight on, the nose looks generic, but OK. The doors - Citroen sourced - look nice. Somehow though, it doesn't work. Maybe it's the huge C Pillars, maybe it's the huge rear window. Maybe it's the overall proportion. Whatever the reason, it's ugly.
It didn't have to be ugly. In the 1980s, you could pretty much dial any random phone number in Italy and find a person who could design a beautiful car. It's one of the things the Italians do very, very well. You would think that the folks at Lands Motor Company - the creator / builder of this thing - would have thought, "OK, we have our concept. We know what we want. We've just spent a sh*tload of money. Let's spend a little more and have a carozzeria clean it up and tweak the design a bit. Let's make it beautiful." That obliviously didn't happen. (A website called Daddytypes.com says it was designed by Alain Clenet, who also designed and built the ghastly Clenet retro-car. I don't find that hard to believe at all.)The interior has the same problem. All the right pieces are there. It has all the right accessories. (And some wrong ones, too. An "electric wet bar?!!?") It has real wood accents scattered throughout it. But it's all not well placed or well designed. The instrument panel would look more appropriate on a boat. (A cheap, homemade boat.)
There is not much information available on the internet about this vehicle. There was a brief discussion about it in November, 2011, on Supercars.net. Jalopnik featured it in September, 2005.This is one of those cars that I'm pointing out just because it exists and for no other reason.
Back in 2007 someone (I'm not sure if it has changed hands in the past 5 years) was asking $35,000.00 for this vehicle. It's now being offered on eBay with no reserve.
Located in College Station, TX, click here to see the eBay listing.
14 comments:
Wow, this sure is ugly but it is, "Designed and built from ground up". How could anyone go wrong when the vehicle has that 'feature' as described in the E-bay listing?
I can't say I had ever heard of this car before and while it was interesting to learn about it... what a fugly vehicle! No wonder why only two were built.
Speaking of fugly, if you are looking to look at other hideous vehicles, look at the link provided of the Clenet as some other modified vehicles are shown and yikes are they scary too. There is a JX Coupe that's a modified Chrysler Concorde that's like a ute but not, and the same goes with the Scattare, a modified Oldsmobile Aurora.
It looks like what a French SUV might have looked like up until the C-pillars, where it looks like somebody grafted on the tail end of a 1970s motorhome or something similar. Weird.
You thought this baby hit every branch as it fell from the ugly tree, check out the Ssangyong Rodius......management (?) actually signed that off on that for the poor unsuspecting public
Switchgear on the center console looks like stuff from a late 80s Alfa Spider.
I don't mind the look so much... kinda cool for foreseeing the Mercedes R-Class.
Is it a sign when more than half the descriptive text in the auction is legal mumbo jumbo?
Re: Ssangyong Rodius... Wow. I've never seen a Rodius before. I had to look it up. I hope to never see one again.
A Pontiac Aztec...now that's ugly.
I like this. The dash is a poor first attempt, but the rest is really not bad. I would be nice in California. It would really stand out.
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