"Multipla" is a time-honored name for Fiat. The company made an adorable
microvan by that name in the '50s and '60s, based on the Fiat 600. The
Multipla that appeared in 1998 was anything but adorable. With its
strange high-beam lenses situated at the bottom of the A-pillars (base
of the windshield), the Multipla looked like it had several sets of
eyes, like an irradiated tadpole. It had this weird proboscis out front
and a bulky, glass cabin in back, and the whole thing was situated on
dwarfish wheels. I rented one of these in Europe and it worked
beautifully, but it was just so tragic to look at. The Multipla (and the
Aztek and the Consulier GTP) reminds us that cars cannot just work
beautifully. They have to be beautiful. At least they can't look like
this.
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