Yet, it was not ugly for its time. In fact it was a very popular appearance that nearly all cars caught on to, especially with the 1988 revise. There is a reason the likes of the Fairmont, Caprice, LTD and so on were phased out to be replaced by the more popular look of cars like Tempo and Taurus. Your opinion is you don't like how it looks, buts its just that, an opinion. In 1984 more people liked the look of the Tempo then people of 2007 like the look of the Focus. I'll leave this discussion because its off topic at this point..

Edit; you don't have to like them. If you think they are ugly thats fine. However, your opinion does not make them ugly cars. A few million people thought they were good looking enough to buy them, which is more then can be said for Ford compacts around the world before and after Tempo.