re: Worst decade for car models (looks)?

Motors were shite because of regulations and poor technology.

90s

The wrangler was introduced in 87 with square headlights.

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The angry Pontiac Aztek from Lexus

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Yeah, I don’t know what Lexis is thinking with their current grills. They all look awful.

I don’t see any decade worse than the 80’s for design, save for perhaps a few like the 280Z, Vette, Z-28, RX7, and T-A, and Toyota trucks. The rest were dogs.

The 80's mustangs are laughably bad. I was at a restaurant with a group from work and we walked across an 80's model mustang. We are all in mid 20's so I knew most would not know what kind of car it was. I asked and not a single one of them knew it was a mustang. Only reason I knew was because my uncle had one when I was a kid (it was bad arse back then).

That style is just so foreign from all the other ones. The others at least share some characteristics.

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I don’t see any decade worse than the 80’s for design, save for perhaps a few like the 280Z, Vette, Z-28, RX7, and T-A, and Toyota trucks. The rest were dogs.

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The Chevy Square Bodies (C/K pickup, Blazer, Suburban) and the full sized Fords were pretty sweet in the 1980s. They were simple, rugged, and dependable. Their utilitarian focus made their square designs more appropriate. Trucks were not expected to win races back then, and the small block V8 and 4 speed manuals were just fine.

Their cars, on the other hand, were horrendous. Look at the “downsized” 1980 Caprice/Impala compared to the more powerful and more stylish mid 1970s models and you will see the problem instantly. Same with the “downsized” Lincoln’s, Cadillacs, and Chrysler’s of the 1980s and 1990s.

To make matters worse, emissions requirements were forced US automakers to basically take their monster engines from the 1970s and “starve” them until they met targets. That’s how we got V8 Fords and Chevys with 145 horsepower. If you had to buy a new car in the 1980s, you knew you were taking a step down in design and power train from just 5-6 years ago. It stayed that way until fuel injection became the norm.

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The 80's mustangs are laughably bad. I was at a restaurant with a group from work and we walked across an 80's model mustang. We are all in mid 20's so I knew most would not know what kind of car it was. I asked and not a single one of them knew it was a mustang. Only reason I knew was because my uncle had one when I was a kid (it was bad arse back then).

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I objectively know that the 5.0 fox bodies (later versions) were not good looking cars, but I can’t not like them even today because they were the shite back when I was starting to drive. The early version that someone posted already is hideous.

I’d drive this one all day long.

The worst was the 70s.

Prime example is the only ugly car that Astin Martin ever produced, the Lagonda: