Looks like they paid a designer who got halfway through designing the car (the bottom half) and then fired them in favor of some project manager's nephew who's "good with computers."

It won the Top Gear Car of the Year 2000. It was also voted Top Gear Magazine's Family Car of the Year for four years in a row, from 2001 to 2004. It seats six in two rows. They had one variant that ran on propane. 12 year production run in Europe. Another 5 years in China. 343,000 sold. It was extremely space and fuel efficient, because of the design for aero.

you want stupid and bizarre looking...