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How Ugly! (photos of ugly buses)

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The CVE Omni must surely be a contender:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cliveabrown/3178400640/

This is the one operated by SMT, new in 1994 for All-Aboard dial-a-bus services in East Lothian. By 2003 it was in the scrapyard. Not the most reliable of vehicles, it tended to spend more time off the road than on the road and often had to be subbed by a Renault S56/Alexander AM fitted with a tail-lift. The SMT Omni was put out to grass when the All-Aboard network was recast in 1999 - I don't think it was used much after that.
 
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martinsh said:
Three axle minibuses seemed to have more than their fair share of ugliness

This is a Peugeot Boxer with TBP body
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That looks weird.....but I like it! :lol:
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DunsBus said:
The CVE Omni must surely be a contender:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cliveabrown/3178400640/

This is the one operated by SMT, new in 1994 for All-Aboard dial-a-bus services in East Lothian. By 2003 it was in the scrapyard. Not the most reliable of vehicles, it tended to spend more time off the road than on the road and often had to be subbed by a Renault S56/Alexander AM fitted with a tail-lift. The SMT Omni was put out to grass when the All-Aboard network was recast in 1999 - I don't think it was used much after that.
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Thats vile!
 
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martinsh said:
Three axle minibuses seemed to have more than their fair share of ugliness

This is a Peugeot Boxer with TBP body
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It's shameful how long it took me to recognise where that was taken :(
 
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Trainbasher said:
Those are beautiful.



Nothing wrong with the Wright Borismaster
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ugly, over weight, not any more efficient than an "off the shelf" double decker and vastly more expensive than (say) the latest Enviro 400. Other than that, nothing wrong with the vanity project...
 
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jopsuk said:
ugly, over weight, not any more efficient than an "off the shelf" double decker and vastly more expensive than (say) the latest Enviro 400. Other than that, nothing wrong with the vanity project...
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And the front windows don't open on the top deck. <(

It wouldn't be so ugly if they removed the silly diagonal from the front end, instead just painting it red straight accross.
 
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LE Greys said:
And the front windows don't open on the top deck. <(
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Though I'd be quite happy if none of the upstairs windows on the London buses with air cooling opened without a key. The number of times on a hot day you get on a bus to find some idiot's opened all the windows so the cool air is going straight out and the bus is boiling :(
 
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vicbury said:
Unfortunately I have to disagree with the Wright Eclipse being included, I think it's a stylish body in all forms (single deck, double deck, articulated).

My contenders for ugly buses:
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Easts Lancs OmniTown
East Lancs Mylennium
East Lancs Pyoneer What were they thinking?
East Lancs EL2000
Marshall Capital
MCV DD103

And by far the worst:

This.
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I am sure Go North East had a batch of Marshall Capitals a few years ago, or some very similar vehicles, my mate was driving one not long after been taking on by GNE, he opened the doors, and they fell off :D

Personally I think bendy buses are horrible looking things

Go North East Bendy Scania
Go North East Bendy Citaro

I just think bendy buses are monstrosities
 
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LE Greys said:
A very hideous design, I've always hated those curved sections on the windscreens (the article this came from explains why they were the bane of my life last year).

http://www.transportxtra.com/files/7072-l.jpg
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I'm not a huge fan of the Pulsar, but now that I've seen the newer Pulsar variant (this one) I wouldn't say the one you showed is actually ugly, inelegant maybe.

90019 said:
The wheel forward Streetlite is a rather ugly looking thing, but oddly I like the door forward version. It's not that it's not ugly - the front end certainly isn't good looking - just much less so than the wheel forward.
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I think both those designs of Streetlight are ugly, or at least inelegant.

KendalKing said:
Closely followed by the Optare Solo.
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That very much depends. The plain-old ordinary solo is actually one of my favoriate designs, rather good looking I think. However, they have ruined it with the Solo SR, that is possibly a contender in the ugly buses league (I don't think it is ugly as a few of the ones others have posted though). The Optare Versa, on which I think the Solo SR is based, is similarly awful.

None of the pictures I linked to are mine.

Another thing I would like to point out is the effect of livery. The Optare Tempo is, in my opinion, the most elegant, best-looking bus out there. It can look superb, but the new Traws Cymru livery (ignore the spectactular Welsh scenary and focus on how the silver clashes with the white, on how the green doesn't follow the lines of the bodywork and on how scribbly all the lines along the side are) is so messy it almost ruins it. I'd also like to nominate the Tempo SR as an ugly bus, not because it is particularly bad in itself but because, compared to the orriginal Tempo it replaces, it looks awful.
 
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Very surprised nobody thought of this irish monstrosity..

Bombardier KD

Blurb mentions they were re engined with 2 stroke versions by GM, deary me.
 
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Rhydgaled said:
I'm not a huge fan of the Pulsar, but now that I've seen the newer Pulsar variant (this one) I wouldn't say the one you showed is actually ugly, inelegant maybe.
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We're getting those around North Herts currently (I think). It's the curved front end "smiley face" look that puts me off, an unnecessary attempt to anthropomorphise a machine, like the "big eyes" headlights on modern cars. It's totally unnecessary. It could be worse, you find both features on a Pendy.
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moogal said:
Though I'd be quite happy if none of the upstairs windows on the London buses with air cooling opened without a key. The number of times on a hot day you get on a bus to find some idiot's opened all the windows so the cool air is going straight out and the bus is boiling :(
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If you mean the Volvo things, then blame people like me. :oops: I always thought there was not ventillation at all on those. I've never been on a Borismaster, so can't really say if they work.
 
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Aaarg those awful buses which try to look like a tram. Sure I saw one in York. Only thing worse are those awful "Old Town Trolley" tours you get in the States which dress up some truck chassis to look like an old tram. Hideous.
 
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