Agree with your assessment

But also makes me think of MadMax.

Fuck eloon tho and his super ugly truck!

Not just ugly. There is one in my neighborhood. By measurements, it's apparently only a little wider than an average pick up, but something about the design makes it appear ridiculously oversized.

The first one I saw, I was behind it at a stoplight. I couldn't figure out at first what I was looking at, then the light changed and it turned the corner and I saw the whole thing in its hideous glory. I've seen some butt-ugly vehicles (the Nissan Cube, the Edsel, the PT Cruiser), but this one out-uglied all of them. It's like Brutalism in architecture; it tries to be ugly. It's defiantly, transgressively ugly. It wants to be ugly, kind of like Elon Musk wants to be a douchebag. It's the douchebag of motor vehicles. I couldn't get away from it fast enough. I'm only thankful that they don't come in red.

Garbage dumpster with wheels.

Hideous is not powerful enough to describe IT.

Perfect description

It doesn't look like it is aging well.

Is that rust around the fender or is that it's "patina"?

It's made from N-304 stainless, which is VERY resistant to oxidation.
Absent someone welding on it with mild steel, 304 takes extreme conditions to show rust.
That said, most austenitic stainless steels do not play well with chlorides. Like fir instance, ROAD SALT.
Through an ion exchange process related to metathesis, it extracts the chromium & nickel, causing nanoscopic cracking, and bringing the chloride salts of those metals to the surface. Chromium chloride is purple, nickel chloride is green. Since the iron is now exposed at the oxides of the other metals are compromised, we get iron oxide, or rust.
Green, purple & red, make brown.
I'd expect a lot of these vehicles used in climates with full blown winter are going to look pretty bad in a few years.
Nothing a $10,000 acid wash, buffing & polishing & surface pickling wouldn't fix. A mere $10k, not including waste disposal.
I've seen several repacking procedures on reactors. Not at all cheap.
Oh, and those invisible cracks caused to chloride can catastrophically compromise tensile strength.
Using 300 series stainless is a highly dubious decision.

I chose a Pinto given their tendency to erupt in flames

Abomination of conceptual design.

A Hummer looks better.