[DeTomaso] NPC: Obvious design flaws

[Mikael]

Boring Sunday evening, let's start something. What cars have undisputed
design flaws? Doesn't have to be an objective truth shared by the rest of
the world, but should be justified. Be specific

 

Some of mine:

1.    Modern Corvette. I like it until I see the cut off rear end. Why? Why
would GM think that a wall is attractive?

2.    Cadillac's vertical lamps. A designer once said that for decades
designers have tried to make cars look low and wide. Vertical lamps do the
opposite

3.    69 Camaro. Yes I love Camaros, and the 68 was great. How to design
something better? They couldn't, all they could was move the head lamps
inwards and make it look cross eyed and extend and increase the fender
crease so from behind it looks like a woman that sits more than she should

4.    Most 70s US cars, putting the rear lamps in the bumpers was ugly

5.    Any non-911 Porsche. Porsche apparently believes that any car of
theirs must look like the 911 gone wrong. They Cayenne looks like an
inflatable 911 with too way too much air in it. First time I saw a magazine
picture of the Cayenne, I seriously thought for a moment that somebody had
cut up a 911 and made a joke. The Panamera looks like a clay 911 put in the
wind tunnel before it dried properly. Boxster, some years, looked the same
coming and going. Cayman, well it was a 911, wasn't it?

6.    Most Chris Bangle BMWs. Dame Edna lights, that's something you draw
for fun on a company outing, and then you take care not to mix up the
Shredder with the Suggestion Box

7.    Ferraris current round rear lights, sitting on top of the fender. Like
something out of Duckburg

8.    All cars with LED light bands. That's something 18 year olds put on
their infantile cars when trying to be different, together with purple dot
lights and green interior light

9.    I'd even put a DeTomaso in there. The Guara, the rear third looks like
it should be on another car? Front is beautiful

 

Mikael