This is fuckin sexy
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I kind of love it, mostly because it's totally ridiculous in a unique way. The steering wheel is unironically quite cool, though I suspect I use the spokes more than I realize.
Yeah, my car has controls on the steering wheel. It makes them super convenient. I wouldn't want to give that up, but that wheel does look really cool.
And airbags are cool
Face can't hit the steering wheel if the steering wheel is just a big hole. Genius.
icky flat buttons
like a cheap microwave
Give me physical buttons dammit!
I don't love it, but not sure how it ranks as one of the ugliest cars.
That grill is probably why, change that out and honestly she's a beaut
Because it's hideous? Haha
I love boxy shaped cars (and the wedge design of the era), but this thing was hideous even for the time.
And I thought the inside was bad, the exterior is worse lol
Not cassette futurism because it lacks buttons.
The Lagonda combined striking styling with a premium leather interior and (for the day), advanced instrumentation. ...
Throughout the history of the marque, the hand-built Lagonda was amongst the most expensive luxury saloons in the world. The only other production cars to approach its price were the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit/Silver Spur and the Bentley Mulsanne.
The Lagonda was the first production car to use a digital instrument panel.[7] The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to four times as much as the budget for the whole car. The Series 3 used cathode-ray tubes for the instrumentation, which proved even less reliable than the original model's light-emitting diode (LED) display.
It was named by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of the 50 ugliest cars of the last 50 years[8] and Time magazine included it in its "50 Worst Cars of All Time", describing it as a mechanical "catastrophe" with electronics that would be impressive if they ever worked.[9]
That piece of yellow beige trim between the door and the dash sticks out like a sore thumb.