Winner of the Victorian Hat Fetish Award…
Fiat re-invents the box by making it massively less useful to actual human beings who aren’t looking for a conversion that includes a hydraulic ramp.
Highly derided are its ‘storage solutions’ that include pockets that only fit two slim CD cases (useful for those with very limited CD collections) and cubbies on the dash cunningly designed to launch your mobile phone through the passenger side window during cornering.
Let us also not forget the massive headroom so helpful for those with Victorian hat fetishes and the engines that struggle to pull the skin from a dead leper (or fresh custard, for that matter).
Or indeed the extended front end that ‘protects the radiator’ from frontal collisions, cleverly making it so big that it guarantees that you hit something because you can’t see the bloody end of it.
Even the rear window line consists of, um, black stickers (I kid you not). Fiat has cunningly managed, in one masterstroke, to convince us all that they think we’re totally stupid, and because the 500 was really quite well received that they can fob us all off with any old rubbish.
A worthy winner in our pantheon of WTF?!
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lets not forget they are merging their efforts with those of the likes of Chrysler….YIKES
They wanted to call it the “Cube.” But Nissan already has a car called the Cube. So they went Latin with it and got “Cubo.”
I like it. ok maybe is useless, but it’s damn cool, probably the coolest van ever made. Like working whith a supermodel, can’t do nothing but looks great.
And for the name, they’re not went latin, they just go italian, mainly because they’re italian.
That’s almost as bad as the Fiat Multipla. It’s just a box with a nose and some wheels (and some bright paint).
It looks like the designer was drawing out the contours of the car from the back, before deciding he had to tie his shoelace when he reached the hood.
‘cubo’ in spanish is bucket, that just about sums it up….
I wouldn’t mind buying one of these…… to smash it to pieces with a sledgehammer. It would be worth it.
The name alone, “Qubo”, is rubbish, so bad that it’s even being mis-spelled here as Cubo (Although as cubo is actually as Spanish word, maybe it is Fiat that mis-spelled it…).
And to think Fiat are merging with Chrysler! That would either end up with the cool design of the 500 mixed with the brutish charm of a Viper or Challenger, or the dismal horror and dullness of the Sebring mixed with this (also) cheaply-made, powerless, rediculously designed pile of cack.
Look at that bumper! It’s more inflated than Jordan’s tits, and as the ‘bucket’ is about as horrid the Doblo it replaces, I wouldn’t be surprised if it made minus horsepower!!
I think I’ve found a car uglier than the multipla
The car that i hate most in the world is the fiat multipla (I have nothing against Fiat) but this has to come a close second to my all time most hated car in the whole world. Its hideous, everything about it sucks, i just can’t believe someone would want to actually spend money on it!
a top contender
Fiat multipla was actually a very clever package. 3 seats in front and 3 seats in second row which meant it could seat six while also having luggage space and be the size of a fiat bravo. unlike anything at the time (1998). it was but ugly though, the qubo is slightly less ugly but still a bit iffy.
Ehh… looks like something you’d see them crash other cars into at a plant to get crash safety ratings.
“And look at that bumper honey! Now we can drive around all day ramming into things and we won’t have to pay for repairs like we did with the old car!”
It’s not that bad. *hides away from the hundreds of rocks*
It’s not that bad – because you have to think it’s not really a car, but a van with some seats. A very small van, and cheap one. By the way, it’s not the replacement for the Doblo (which is much bigger, actually).
Is Tat, honest!
hate the back window-its way too small
Weird front like a huge pug 107
Oh yes, and how do you pronounce Qubo??
I say-GET A DOBLO (OR SIMILAR) IS BETTER LOOKING AND BIGGER!
just had a test drive and think it’s a clever bit of packaging and as it’s based on the punto platform drives fairly tidy.60mpg and £35 road tax. Ok so its not pretty!but it is practical
It reallllly should be both, multi owner.
Very Ugly specialy the front that car is pointless to.
The Multipla was the most ugly car in the world. And this is also a very very very ugly car!
Fiat have actually managed to get a van and a car to mate and produce…erm an ugly offspring.
I can’t even begin to describe it!
How on earth could anyone dream up a car as ugly as this and then expect people to buy it?
WTF? indeed!
Why?!?!
That’s all that comes into my head when I see this!
I hated the Multipla for its looks, but I had to admire its practicality. This I hate for its looks and its obvious lack of practicality. You’d be hitting every bollard in every single car park, from either end. You’d end up spending more getting prangs fixed than on the actual car. Ye Gods protect me from car companies who don’t think of the simple things.
LoL should have called it the fiat bogey or the puker. and its about time we stopped trying to get into the american market as they dont have a clue about what they want to buy in a car, they are so stupid about buying cars, wouldnt know a good car if it went up to them and said ‘i can turn left AND RIGHT! ‘
this is a cool car !! I´m gonna get one for shoving pensionists off the road, it´s perfect !! luv it
Fiat’s board of executives gave Ferrari all the fancy designers!!
They then gave Alan Titchmarsh a ruler and the Fiat division!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my God!! I thought this was the Skoda Roomster and that was awful.
Don’t tell me Fiat copied Skoda on this..
Truly hideous looking thing. Would rather drive a pink pickup truck..
Remember the Fiat Multipla? Exactly. It’s very rare to find Multipla weirdness in any Italian car these days, so give credit where credit is due, and take it off the list!
hear hear
not a designer piece for sure ! lol i can see my granny on it .. damm it looks like it crashes into a wall backwards and then a piano crashed at the front… =S
I saw one of these on my way home today…the exact same colour. Let me tell you it’s more hideous in real life!
Hideous Hideous Hideous
Italians werent in good health when they crafted this out
I agree with ya portox
what have they done THIS time? ….
I BET THE CRASH TESTERS LOVED GETTING THERE HANDS ON A FEW OF THOSE
Wow. Amazingly ugly car. Some people thought that no one could come up with an uglier design than the Multipla. I think they have come close, but a shot of the front end could wrap it up. The puke green is a nice touch too as it allows the stomach contents of passer’s by to blend in after they are done losing their lunch on it.
I don’t understand how this THING has so few votes, it is utterly GROTESQUE, and the snot green colour? Icing on the cake. Any British person would me insane to buy it; half of England’s roads are laquered with speed bumps, you’d have sanded the front buper down in a day. Colour aside, when looking closely the black detailing and door handles (what were they thinking? Lets emphasise it’s vileness??) and the side windows almost look like the face of someone about to void their stomach. How apt.
Im not going to say anything smart… I hate the look of this car. I dont care about anything else it does. I couldnt care less if it was the best drive ever .
Simply put, this car is D.I.S.G.U.S.T.I.N.G bleurgh.
My next door neighbour’s got one in green. Waking up to see that on their drive every morning is torture! Sometimes they park it on the road outside my house. Trust me it’s not nice! I’ve thought of a lot of bad things to do to it!!!
Just why? Why?!
its not designed to be functional or practical it is just designed to be different and that is cool.
my vote
It’s strange and amazing how taste and fashion are different from one side to the other of the channel… I must admit that the the green flashy color is very ugly but, besides the color, and having seen and tested the car (in black), it’s a cool car and fits perfectly the needs of my familly as a second car for driving our three young childs to elementary school and then go to work … From Belgium. (By the way, my wife and i loved the original multipla
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Qubo. Sounds like a drug dealer.
Not that I’d know.
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Did they intentionally design this car for circus clowns? It looks like something you’d see in an anime cartoon. Please tell me they don’t sell this car in the U.S.A. so I won’t have to see any on the commute to work.
OMG!!! Something WORSE than the Honda element!! At least if you back into the side of a building, no one will ever be the wiser!
I can rest easy. Now that Fiat is in bed with Chrysler, I hope to soon find this on the same sales floor as the Chrysler Sebring. Did Fiat “discover” Volvo’s blueprints for a new boxy wagon? Poorly executed, now execute it.
This has got to be the ugliest, most useless car of the entire year. What a piece of rubbish!
It’s a car’s bonet stuck onto french doors stuck onto the rear end of a van! What were they thinking?
Really not their best offering – a serious contender for the Multipla… and that’s not a compliment!
FIAT says it all…
Flippin
Italian
Autmotive
Trash
this car is a perfect example of it!!
…I do believe, this should have also been awarded the minger award. The Rodius is bad yes, but this scars my eyes!
It’s a bit like a very very small train, with slam shut doors, a driver’s cabin, and plenty of room for eight people to stand in. Better still, you can tow a small child or two along for several miles in the turbulence of its squashed rear-end. Yay!
Appropriate that it’s green, because i have a cold and what i just blew out my nose was better-looking than this….
i think the deigner of this ugly whatever it is should be shot for creating something no-one in their right mind would buy this
Got a friend whose missus thinks these are great. But then she has a Multipla. No further questions, M’lud.
If given a choice to drive one of these…walk, hitchhike, take the bus, or take the tube instead. The Qubo is terribly designed and no one should ever be allowed to own one.
You’re right!!! This is one uglleeeee car. I wouldm’t want ot be caught dead in one of these
Let’s face it – this car is pig-ugly (from any angle). It’s a Fiat, so will probably suffer from tin foil body work, and corrosion issues the moment it leaves the dealer.
Frankly, I can’t think of anything I’d rather not spend my money on. Next to this, even the Chevvy looks more appealing (gads! What am I saying – Chevvy more appealing?)
The advert in TG magazine for this car even says that the car is a last resort and has no style: “Who needs a mini?” it says. Well everyone who drives this Quobowobblecrap
Reminds me of the nissan cube
atleast that made more sense…
WTF
The only people that will be buying this is some 120 poor Fiat dealers who have all been forced to register one demo each in the same lovely colour. Distressed Qubo sales in 3 months i think