These Are The Ugliest Engine Bays

Yeah, I know it doesn’t look that bad. But here’s the problem. If you remove that engine cover? You’ve removed part of your air intake.

Give me a bunch of exposed wires and hoses ANY DAY over a design that makes it near impossible to properly work on a vehicle just to make it look neater.

2003-2004 (Y34) M45. You take that engine cover off and it’s downright gross.

My vote is any diesel pickup truck. You’ll need an engineering degree, journeyman’s license, and pluming expertise just to be able to start a diagnoses.

Anything with a V12 should be exotic and exciting, but you wouldn’t know it from what looks like a wiring diagram threw up in your Jaguar’s engine bay.

Almost any post-emission control, pre-computer chipped V8 equipped car, so pretty much anything from 1970 through the late ‘80s.

I remember having to navigate a maze of wires and vacuum hoses on my aunt’s Pontiac Parisienne just to change the spark plugs.

The ‘97 Tahoe I had didn’t look very good but you could see the engine and there wasn’t a bunch of wires, pretty ugly though.

Anything from the late 80s to 90s, with a surplus of retrofitted hoses hiding everything, before we figured out how to build clean running engines from clean sheet designs.