Throwing all caution to the wind, Businessweek.com created a post of the “Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years” and put the Volvo 240 in 13th place. I’ll agree with their assesment of the headlights being too huge in the later models, but the headrests? They’re awesome! Yes, it’s boxy. But in a world of cars shaped like suppositories, boxy can be cool.

Jalopnik warns of the wrath of the dedicated RWD Volvo driving public.

While I agree that the exterior of the 1970’s Mustang was pretty ugly, that’s over shadowed by my fond memories of the vinyl back seat of my high school girlfriend’s 1975 silver ‘Stang.