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KozmoNaut posted:It looks like a cartoon villain's car. david_a posted:ROAD HOG driven by BARON OINKMEISTER these posts have stuck in my mind every time a new BMW design is revealed
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Dave Inc. posted:Those headlights are just painful. Is this just a matter of the upper position being too high for regulations? I think a lot of it is realisation that cars are too tall and so are just blinding everyone else not sat in a large car too. Whether it's a regulation thing or manufacturers being nice to other road users is another matter entirely (it won't be the latter  )
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Of course the dipshit young wannabe "influencers" on Reddit love all the new BMW designs!  BMW is borrowing from Hyundai/KIA's uglier design elements in the quest to be "edgy" and it's dumb. 
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Sab669 posted:Illuminated grilles are the ugliest, tackiest embodiment of brand worship and whoever puts them into production should be fired. But how else will other drivers know how much better you are than them at night? See also the illuminated MB emblem.
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Keyser_Soze posted:Of course the dipshit young wannabe "influencers" on Reddit love all the new BMW designs! 
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If BMW's design language (and most of the stuff being shat into our collective eyes from the car industry in general) is what counts as objectively good these days then I'm very happy to be Skinner in this instance. *edit: that car designers these days are all in on the 'more is more' trail of design, chucking more and more disjointed lines and features on cars to hide their true size just tells me they're running out of ideas (or the design heads are pushing awful ones). Fake exhausts in fake exhaust cut outs on rear bumpers that do not need to exist but only to hide the expanse of bumper that would exist if they didn't. fake vents in places on cars that even if they weren't fake wouldn't actually do anything useful. The rush to put full width LEDs on the front and back of cars when the rules changed to allow it meaning virtually every manufacturer is doing the same thing. The fact that CUVs and SUVs being so large that wheels have to be enormous to balance out the design and still look kinda small in a lot of cases. There's a lot of things wrong with modern car design, it isn't a bad thing to say they look like poo poo because in truth they do. Good design is timeless, these things will age poorly and I seriously doubt very many modern cars will be looked upon as favourably as those that have come before. Look at this certified design classic right here.  ...and this isn't even close to the worst offender. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Apr 13, 2022 |
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I don't hate that TBH. I like the "grille" - very Darth Vader.
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Look you should be open minded but not so open minded that your
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KillHour posted:I don't hate that TBH. I like the "grille" - very Darth Vader. More like the Royal Guard instead 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:There's a lot of things wrong with modern car design, it isn't a bad thing to say they look like poo poo because in truth they do. Good design is timeless, these things will age poorly and I seriously doubt very many modern cars will be looked upon as favourably as those that have come before.
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Jeep was ahead of the curve with the 2014 Cherokee and it's bi-level DRL / headlight setup.
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My neice would play with that if it was a hotwheel. Therefore it's a good car.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Look at this certified design classic right here. I fully expect the driver of this car to fall out of the door in a shower of empties then start a fight with the crossing guard while in line for pickup at the local elementary.
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Mr. Apollo posted:Jeep was ahead of the curve with the 2014 Cherokee and it's bi-level DRL / headlight setup. 1998 what up?  2001 what up? 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:1998 what up? I remember seeing the Multipla in Europe on vacation as a kid and wondering who bought them.
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I finally saw a G70 in person yesterday and drat do they look good.
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I feel like the only car companies that make anything visually bearable these days is Chrysler/Dodge and Genesis.
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Weird, I'm having to restrain myself from blowing money on various cars because I think they look cool.
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Throatwarbler posted:I feel like the only car companies that make anything visually bearable these days is Chrysler/Dodge and Genesis. what cars does chrysler make
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Mr. Apollo posted:Jeep was ahead of the curve with the 2014 Cherokee and it's bi-level DRL / headlight setup. That’s the worst bit. Because those Cherokees were ugly as gently caress
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Head Bee Guy posted:what cars does chrysler make You can walk onto a lot right now and buy a Chrysler 300. The Avalon may be discontinued, Chevy won't sell you an Impala, the Taurus is gone, even the drat Kia Cadenza is gone, but Chrysler will keep the 300 around for many years to come.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:If BMW's design language (and most of the stuff being shat into our collective eyes from the car industry in general) is what counts as objectively good these days then I'm very happy to be Skinner in this instance. People have different tastes and car companies probably aren’t going out of their way to cater to the tastes of a bunch of aging curmudgeons who want brown manual wagons and 20 year old Miata’s.
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Rusty posted:It looks like a Rav-4 to me (or any number of crossovers), which people seem to love, so I just accept I am the one that is out of touch. The rav 4 hybrid limited is gods most perfect overall vehicle.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:People have different tastes and car companies probably aren’t going out of their way to cater to the tastes of a bunch of aging curmudgeons who want brown manual wagons and 20 year old Miata’s. Old people are literally the only ones they do cater to. It's just that if you're in your 30s or 40s, you're far too young for it.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:Old people are literally the only ones they do cater to. It's just that if you're in your 30s or 40s, you're far too young for it. They aren’t designing the x7 for people who wish cars had stopped changing 20 years ago which is most of what’s represented here. Whether those people are 40 or 60 now they aren’t the target market.
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sometimes designers just do a bad job and it doesnt have anything to do with focus grouping or market research
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Twerk from Home posted:You can walk onto a lot right now and buy a Chrysler 300. The Avalon may be discontinued, Chevy won't sell you an Impala, the Taurus is gone, even the drat Kia Cadenza is gone, but Chrysler will keep the 300 around for many years to come. Maybe the high output hurricane will make it better.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:Old people are literally the only ones they do cater to. It's just that if you're in your 30s or 40s, you're far too young for it. Look I'm loving trying but I can only buy so many.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:1998 what up? First time I saw the Multipla in my rear view mirror it was so ugly I almost crashed.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:People have different tastes and car companies probably aren’t going out of their way to cater to the tastes of a bunch of aging curmudgeons who want brown manual wagons and 20 year old Miata’s. As Clarkson correctly observed, put a BMW badge on a steaming turd and a bunch of idiots will line up to buy it just because of the badge.
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KillHour posted:Look I'm loving trying but I can only buy so many. Didn't you buy a new M4 with the similar front end to the X7 that started this discussion?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:As Clarkson correctly observed, put a BMW badge on a steaming turd and a bunch of idiots will line up to buy it just because of the badge. In electric motorcycle land, you can now buy the single existing Livewire model either with or without a Harley badge. The Harley badge adds $8k.
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Incidentally while the pig snout doesn't look good on the M3/M4 IMO, the proportions of the grille fit the comically huge X7. The M4 is subjectively ugly because of the oversized grille. That X7 is objectively ugly because of *everything else* going on around the grille. The Cherokee/Kona headlights. The weirdly pointy chrome accent piece across the bottom. The giant black hexagon surrounding the lidar/radar/whatevar instruments. The weird convex fold to create the ducts on your 6,000 pound SUV. Just all of it is so bad. Sab669 fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Apr 14, 2022 |
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Genesis Speedium coupe concept.  build it yo cowards 
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morothar posted:That’s the worst bit. Because those Cherokees were ugly as gently caress
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Powershift posted:Genesis Speedium coupe concept. Ah nice, the Hyundai Gemera
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Powershift posted:Genesis Speedium coupe concept. They won't but I wish they would. Give it custom luggage like that Aston Martin shooting brake. Woolwich Bagnet posted:Didn't you buy a new M4 with the similar front end to the X7 that started this discussion? I did and I hope they make a bajillion of them because they're amazing cars regardless of how you think they look and I want them to make more of that instead of another "M" SUV for dentists. I also bought it in yellow with the blue interior because gently caress boring car colors. KillHour fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Apr 14, 2022 |
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YOLOsubmarine posted:They aren’t designing the x7 for people who wish cars had stopped changing 20 years ago which is most of what’s represented here. Whether those people are 40 or 60 now they aren’t the target market. Cars were pretty good 20 years ago, but I still accept changes: more power cheaper lighter sensible maintenance and repairs visually restrained more power Carmakers just aren't really delivering the set of changes I want.
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PBCrunch posted:more power - yes I've corrected your homework for what will actually happen. B-
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New top Range Rover is $165,000 "offroad" SUV with 23" wheels and "hot stone" massage seats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1XHl8nTJRo
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