[DeTomaso] NPC: Obvious design flaws

thomas thomas at hax.se
Sun Aug 26 17:35:11 EDT 2012


The last Ford Scorpio. The ugliest car in a long time. 

1990:s Chevrolet Caprice, is it coming or going?

Later BMW:s, with all the inverted curves. Modeled after a cockroach?

Not impressed by Ferrari styling either.

Hummer 2/3.

SUV:s, all of them really.

26 aug 2012 kl. 21:53 skrev "Mikael" <mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk>:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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