View Poll Results: Who is to blame for the last few years and ugly and uglier gettng vehicles?

Chris Bangle must be stopped. He actually designs for everyone as a freelance.

7.14%

The lead car designer and his/her team of designers

The managment approving these designs

35.71%

The people buying these designs

3.57%

I design cars and they look good, you just don't understand

Who cares, sign me up. I want a job where I can legallly smoke crack rocks and destroy car design!!

7.14%

Its the gotdamn goats

7.14%

These cars actually look good and they are not ugly

SUV influence has destroyed car design

3.57%

Acuras look like giant Megatron turds. Megatron then looks at his turds and screams "AHHHHHHH"

35.71%

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What on earth happened to good car design?

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11-21-08, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by 8speed

VW/AUDI is not the number one automaker in the world by accident. They are so good at reinventing themselves

How are you defining "number one automaker"? Worldwide sales volume puts
VW/Audi and it's other divisions at number 3 in the world (they just overtook Ford this year). The nearly bankrupt GM is closer to #1. Toyota is numero uno.

Their quality is worse than the your average GM and Ford product, so that's not it.

So why are they #1?

11-21-08, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by mmarshall

Here's my vote for the most physically beautiful car in production today (in the American market), although the roofline is a little too raked for my tastes. Still, this car is my idea of beautiful.....the Jaguar XF:

I agree the XF is REALLY beautiful. My only nit is the top of the headlights.

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And here is (perhaps) the ugliest one....the Yaris hatchback:

It actually doesn't look that terrible in that picture, but besides the ugly exterior is one of the ugliest modern interiors EVER.

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11-22-08, 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by JLSC4

He may also be referring to the contributions of VW's huge sales in Europe, where the Golf/Rabbit, from the last figures I saw, was the top-selling single vehicle. That alone, of course, would not necessarily make VW #1 worldwide.

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Their quality is worse than the your average GM and Ford product, so that's not it.

Only in electronics, wiring, and some cheap plastic interior stalks, where VWs and Audis do in fact have problems. Other than that, I'd take one over the average domestically-designed product (especially Chrysler/Dodge) in a heartbeat.
The superb DSG transmission alone (where it is available) is a big selling point.

11-22-08, 07:17 AM

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i don't know what happened to styling but I do know some companies take it more seriously than others.

Ferrari + Lamborghini + Maserati + Land Rover + Jaguar

vs

Toyota + Nissan + Honda + Fiat + GM + Ford + Chrysler + Hyundai