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Why are cars so ugly?


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2017 Oct 4, 5:06pm   13,933 views  47 comments

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Hideous.


Boring.


Junky.


Backwards.


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27   MAGA   2017 Oct 5, 7:40pm  

My second car, right after graduating from High School.


28   bob2356   2017 Oct 6, 6:01am  

HEY YOU says
We need to look good while driving & pumping CO2 into the environment.


Damn right. Styling while polluting is important. Thanks for pointing that out.
29   NDrLoR   2017 Oct 6, 9:04am  

jazz_music says
Studebaker
Was first out of the factory in 1946 with an all new, modern looking model when other brands force-fed the highest priced warmed over '42 models to a car-starved public until about 1949 or 50.

These confused me when they were new, I thought they were some kind of sports car they looked so unlike anything else in the 50's:

30   MrMagic   2017 Oct 6, 9:20am  

Cars?? What type of real man drives a car today? Ones that wear skirts Or aprons?
31   Mick Russom   2017 Oct 6, 12:05pm  

The giant fat bumpers of today are required because when cars strike people the survival rate of the person hit goes way up if the front of the car has a higher bumper / hood. the cool pantera style or gt40 fronts look great but they are no longer seen due to requirements.

https://jalopnik.com/the-ten-worst-government-mandated-automotive-technologi-1556899133
5 mph bumpers and pedestrian impact regulations = fugly cars.
32   curious2   2017 Oct 6, 12:53pm  

Mick Russom says
required because when cars strike people the survival rate of the person hit goes way up if the front of the car has...


Can you please cite any evidence for those two assertions, i.e. the alleged requirement and the alleged safety data? At most, I found this:

"A minimum of 20 mm (0.8 inch) of clearance is required between the underside of the hood and the highest part of the engine or any other hard point such as the windshield-wiper motor or the HVAC plenum. This raises not only the front of the hood but also its trailing edge by at least 0.8 inch."

Your jalopnik link shows a photo of a low slung Ferrari, and those cars remain on the road. In general, a higher impact point (e.g. an SUV hood) poses a much worse risk to children, and probably adults also.

Philistine says
pedestrian impact regulations have raised the hood heights...


by 2cm. Compare a Tesla and an SUV, and you'll see (a) both are legal and (b) the SUV hood is much higher and thus much more dangerous (especially to children).
33   RWSGFY   2017 Oct 6, 1:01pm  

curious2 says
Mick Russom says
required because when cars strike people the survival rate of the person hit goes way up if the front of the car has...


Can you please cite any evidence for those two assertions, i.e. the alleged requirement and the alleged safety data? Your jalopnik link shows a photo of a low slung Ferrari, and those cars remain on the road. In general, a higher impact point (e.g. an SUV hood) poses a much worse risk to children, and probably adults also.


As I understand the requirement is not for the absolute height of the hood over the road but for the amount of vertical space between the hood and the engine. The rationale being that at certain collision speeds pedestrians tend to hit their heads smack in the middle ofthe hood. The remedy is either to have a hood which automatically shoots up (some cars do that) or simply higher hood which provides the necessary "crumple zone".

Sports cars can get away with having lower hoods because they either have engines in the rear or tucked inside the wheelbase.
34   anonymous   2017 Oct 6, 5:56pm  

Mick Russom says
when cars strike people the survival rate of the person hit goes way up if the front of the car has a


Can you please cite any evidence for that, and these alleged regulations? I looked at your jalopnik link, which showed a photo of a low slung Ferrari. Those cars remain legal. In general, a higher impact point has a worse survival rate, especially for children, who risk getting hit in the head by an SUV.
37   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2017 Oct 23, 12:34pm  

My First ride pulled a whopping 15mph max up hill in the Mountains of South Carolina. It would be maxed out balls to the wall pedal to the metal.
The T Gear shift would be rattling and banging back and forth making such a hell of a racket, you would instinctively reach out to turn the radio down when you were talking to the passengers.

38   anonymous   2017 Oct 23, 7:35pm  

Booger says


The things a black man has to do in the south to be accepted.
39   anonymous   2017 Oct 23, 8:22pm  

It's hard to believe the bumper thing contributes anything to Lexus' fugly predator grill. That's just some misinformed "designer."

I might buy that aerodynamics play a much greater role today when trying to squeeze out MPG or performance out of smaller displacement and fewer cylinders.
40   bob2356   2017 Oct 24, 6:34am  

Tenpoundbass says

My First ride pulled a whopping 15mph max up hill in the Mountains of South Carolina. It would be maxed out balls to the wall pedal to the metal.


The maybe you should have waited until you could afford a better car than a model t
41   anonymous   2017 Oct 25, 8:02am  

Honda is forging a path ahead for EV aesthetics with two concept models shown below. I happen to like these designs very much, even though the Urban concept is a borrowed VW style.






42   Eman   2017 Oct 25, 10:03am  



If you're going to design a car, make it look nice. Otherwise, it's just a waste of time and resources. Learn from Tesla and design something like this.
43   anonymous   2017 Oct 25, 11:38am  

I don't see anything ground breaking in that Tesla design. It's very Corvette.
44   Blurtman   2017 Oct 25, 2:55pm  

anonymous says
Honda is forging a path ahead for EV aesthetics with two concept models shown below. I happen to like these designs very much, even though the Urban concept is a borrowed VW style.
The first looks 911-like from the side. Not bad. The second like a VW Golf. How much can you actually do with a compact hatchback?
45   zzyzzx   2017 Nov 6, 10:01am  


Now that's dedication!
47   Philistine   2017 Nov 9, 6:23pm  

Spotted en route the other day. Sha'Kwanda at the DMV had no issue approving it, natch. (Heart) BN WHT, meanwhile, is automatically rejected on Califuckyou's online customized plate application before you can even submit it.

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