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As a concept car, I feel proportions are the last thing to really complain about.
the "just plain ugly" car thread
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All I can see when I look at the grille and headlights is...BMW's Vision iNext is all kinds of
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Saturn Astra
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Why?
What's ugly about that? It's way better looking than the Dodge Caliber next to it.
Downhill Dino
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Because early concepts usually have exaggerated sizing? But I'm not saying you're wrong, that thing is awful.
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Not sure I'd personally go and call it ugly, but I couldn't help but notice the heart and the lemniscate fingered in the dirt on the hood.Saturn Astra
*starts humming "Endless Love"*
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Nah I won't. I respect your opinions. I like the car but I'll agree, not the best looking. I think the Agera was better.
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Ugly because of headlight proportions in comparison to the rest of the front end?
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Nah, not just that. The rear end, the wheels (ugh), and the giant side vents.
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Contemporary exotics are just a confluence of tacky details.
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o_O The side vents bother you? Honestly, I guess they can be smaller, but I feel if there was nothing there; the side would look rather boring.
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That's just the definition of averageness.
Moving along...
Fight me. I'm ready.
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This was just uploaded:BMW's Vision iNext is all kinds of
Edit: Quoted post was merely used as a springboard, not as something in need of a response.
Had I been thinking, I would have edited the quote in to avoid triggering an alert. Apologies.
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If the front and rear bumpers weren't almost entirely fake vents then it'd go a long way to improving the overall look, but "chunks of flat black plastic in stupid places" seems to be the latest craze in Asian car design. Right next to "floating roof, but with 75% of the C-pillar still visible thus defeating the whole point of doing a floating roof design in the first place".
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The Type-R does look like a dog's dinner but it's sportiness does at least lend itself to having huge (if fake) vents/scoops. The other Civics in the range, with 120hp CVT's just look ridiculous with them. Honda and Toyota really need to take a long hard look at the crap they're putting out at the moment, it's a really bad era for Japanese car design right now.
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You sound just like my dad.
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Hi. Son.
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And so are the Koreans as well, right?
Btw, why the hell does this design start to get so much common these days? Bumpers start to get larger headlamps while actual headlamps start to become squinted, good enough to become DRLs. I mean c'mon.
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I don't think Korean cars at the moment are looking too bad. A bit derivative maybe, but not the riot of disjointed, unconnected slashes and angles that Toyota and Honda are going for right now. Having said that, the most recent of Hyundai's offerings are starting to sport some odd detailing too. It's like they're trying to copy Citroen's recent styling clues, but without the panache.
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I could point out some of their models look too flashy but some models, like the ones from Kia, look decent and rational. However, some of their models also seem to be pretentious in terms of looking like luxury and demanding a premium price tag but I guess they're just trying to fit in a market where known luxury marques like Lexus, Jaguar or Audi currently are. Maybe it's because Kia's current chief designer, Peter Schreyer, has influenced the company to engage competing there when he started designing their models for them, since that guy was also a former designer from Audi.
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Indeed. I fully appreciate the engineering and attention to detail Pagani put into it (most notably the interior), but styling wise it's always looked like a Zonda with an allergic reaction to something.
