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8 That’s a Mercedes?
That headline is right, folks. If you couldn’t tell by those notoriously recognizable circular lights, this thing is actually a Mercedes. It’s a heavily modified Mercedes, but it is definitely of the German persuasion. According to Motoring Research, this thing is based on a 2002 Mercedes CLK and was actually being sold on eBay less than a year ago for some 5,000 British pounds.
More importantly, however, is the story of how much a car like this actually upsets people.
According to the story ran by the publication, there was actually a crowdfunding campaign initiated to raise money just for the car’s destruction. Apparently, the crowdfunding fell through, and as of the end of Feb 2018, the car still hadn’t been sold – that was the last time the car was listed, anyway. We’re willing to put this on in the top 10 ugliest of all time, but what do you think?
7 The Super Guppy
No, this isn’t some nuclear experiment gone wrong, and there isn’t some massive brain hiding under that big metal head, but we wouldn’t blame you for assuming. This plane is known as the Super Guppy, and it is used to transport huge items for NASA. According to Interesting Engineering, the Super Guppy has quite a history, dating back to the 1960s. It once held the record for the largest payload capacity of any plane in the world. It’s said that NASA would have never been able to send astronauts to the moon by 1969 had the Super Guppy not existed. That’s right, a plane that’s coming up on 60 years old, and was responsible – in part – for the moon landing is still in service and still the ugliest in NASA’s fleet. Wonders never cease, huh?
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