Did Citroen just make the ugliest car ever? - discuss

[Jay-Bruce]

I think I've just seen the worlds ugliest car, and unfortunately, it bears our beloved chevron badge on the front of it:



I'll leave y'all to discuss this while I go and bathe my eyes in some optrex to try and unsee that monstrosity that Citroen call the Ami...

[Rp0thejester]

It's rather rude to take the Mikey out of special needs cases....but damn that's ugly!!

[GiveMeABreak]

That's been out for ages Jay - and just to clarify, it's not a car. It's a quadricycle.

These guys have been streaming their 'adventures' in the Ami for ages on the French Riviera:

[Stickyfinger]

I see your AMI and raise you a STUPID + UGLY

It even drives really badly, and I mean really badly !....but it would with a lump of concrete hanging off a rear suspension arm ! (I kid you not !)

[Rp0thejester]

Sounds like my car

[Jay-Bruce]

Sounds like my car

Sorry mate - but the C8 doesn't have enough style to be considered ugly

[Jay-Bruce]

That's been out for ages Jay - and just to clarify, it's not a car. It's a quadricycle.

These guys have been streaming their 'adventures' in the Ami for ages on the French Riviera:

I'm pretty sure I started mocking it on here about the concept stage / prelaunch, like asking What In The Actual F### was I looking at? But it's still FUGLY as

[MattBLancs]

Ami, well it's no looker really. And I can't be doing with the fashionable primer grey they all seem to be, but I think ugly is a relative term....


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I've read about the Pluriel's "suspension weights" = what exactly were those intended to do?? The, presumably related, C3 didn't have such nonsense, did it??

[GiveMeABreak]

Barrie Crampton is a UK owner (and he's a car dealer) who really loves the Ami - were it not for the problem of the door warping / splitting. He's in the middle of a rejection claim:

[Steve Walsh]

Can't believe someone was paid to design that! Saw one on a dealers forecourt yesterday, looks like a kids toy

[Jay-Bruce]

I know, and who thought it would be a good idea to put the USB Type C charging socket on the door?

[GiveMeABreak]

Have you seen underneath these? Basically a welded metal frame with a motor and a battery with all the panels stuck on.

[CitroJim]

Saw one on a dealers forecourt yesterday, looks like a kids toy

Basically, that's what it is...

[MattBLancs]

Have you seen underneath these? Basically a welded metal frame with a motor and a battery with all the panels stuck on.

Yes, was one in the Citroen dealer (Eccleston) I had a good look underneath, quite surprised how simple they are. The fancy wheels are just trims over steel rims too.

To be honest I do really like the concept of a simple, light, small cheap EV - rather than a big SUV as per the vast majority on the roads. So this should be up my street on that basis but the (28mph??) top speed, naff colour, general ugliness misses the mark for me personally.


It's interesting, as a "quadracycle" it seeks to be lighter and skips out a load of safety requirements/ EURO-NCAP stuff. If we're doing that, could we just have a reborn electric AX instead?
Ultra light construction= tick.
A fair way off modern crash standards= (sobering thought but clearly) yes.
Though Vs the Ami, 4 seats, Vs 2 = step up.

[CitroJim]

could we just have a reborn electric AX instead?

Yes please