Thread 28468431

What happened to car design?

>>28468431 (OP)
>engine went behind the driver
>aero was added
>designers probably wanted it to look badass

>>28468431 (OP)
CAD software and and probably advances in manufacturing as well. Any designer can apparently go batshit crazy with forms and that won't cost that much.

>>28468431 (OP)
Over-stylized, more doesn't mean better.

>>28468449
>more doesn't mean better
It does to midwits hence why nucars are still selling based on looks alone.

>>28468460
So why has the multipla never been a sales hit, despite being a comfortable car with a large trunk?

>>28468460
So why has the multipla never been a sales hit, despite being a comfortable car with a large trunk?

>>28468472
Because it was ugly even for normies? Duh?

>>28468431 (OP)
by making them look like gaming computers, they heavily increase sales in their target demographic, which like it or not is mouthbreathers

>>28468431 (OP)
c8 looks like a hotwheels car kek

I need more edges
I SAID MOOOOORE

>>28468523
But why ?

>MORE BODY LINES
>where?
>YES

>>28468533
So you don't see the ugly proportions

>>28468431 (OP)
90s and early 20s cars look like bars of soap.

I like the aggressive, muscular styling. That orange metallic tintcoat makes the car pop too.

>>28468621
understandable, if you're literally 12 years old

>>28468621
fagget wait till ur balls drop

>>28468449
>he doesn't like IRL Hotwheels

nigga how you even aware of this board???

>>28468431 (OP)
OP I see your point but the bottom is a base model and top is coked out roided out track model

>>28468431 (OP)
Sled vettes looked like ass when they debuted.

>>28468621
>early 20s cars look like bars of soap
U WOT, M8?

>>28468729
That would be C4

>>28468523
Looks like an orange frog reeeing

>>28468745
KEK whoops *00s

zoomers see this and think "fucking nice, but needs a bit more edge"

c5 is unironically the best looking corvette, idgaf

>>28469214
I mean super cars are styled aggressively and muscular for a reason

>>28469252
C5 is very nice. Love the pop up headlights.

>>28469214
needs less black space on the sides

>>28469252
Not when 68-72 coupes exist.

>>28469332
what's the reason

>>28468431 (OP)
I blame Top Gear. They bullied it from a affordable sports car to a hyper car

>>28469335
C6 was peak and we never realized it. Well I did. C6 Z06 4eva.

>>28468433
>designers probably wanted it to look badass
well they failed, it looks ugly and try hard

>>28468431 (OP)
Catering to crypto bros

>>28468693
I do like irl hotwheels but I don't want every single fucking thing to be exactly the same.
there's only three types of supercars as of the past 40 years and it's
>anerexic aero-space-fish
>lambo cocaine wedge
>mclaren lawn-darts

c5/c6 is blobshit and ugly
c4 was peak

>>28468745
Quite literally looks like a block of butter on wheels

C8's main problem is that the bonnet is too short.

>>28469386
The good shit remained as concepts.

>>28469521
And yet the frontal overhang is no shorter.

>>28469558
this thing fucks

>>28469335
I miss the era when cars looked cute with the pop up headlights. Nowadays all performance cars or sports styling needs to be aggressive so they can make the white collar ceos and management who buy them feel masculine.

>>28469521
no shit they moved the fucking engine you retard

>>28469672
they should've made the bonnet lower to compensate then

>>28469672
They shouldn't have

>a 2009 game makes an american supercar for its lineup
>looks remarkably like the c8 corvette
>if c8 corvette didn't look like shit

>>28469677
This. They should've kept it front engined. Now it just looks like a budget Ferrari.

>>28469704
It only looks like a budget Ferrari because they designed it to look like a budget Ferrari, whether deliberately or out of incompetence. They could easily make a distinct-looking mid-engined car.

>>28468431 (OP)
you know a car is good when the only criticism retards can come up with is "it ugly"

I like it. Bunch of whiny boomers on this board.

>>28468431 (OP)
I hate black plastic cladding so much.
Hey does everyone do this?

This is peak Corvette.

>>28469335
>C5
boring
>C6
boring
>C7
getting there
>C8
too much but still better

I'd take a C7.5

>>28469688
>Split/Second
based taste in games.

>>28469362
No one cares about that reality TV show except fatherless faggots.
>>28469335
Too bad the C4 isn't on that list. It's my favorite.

they go for the arab clientel

>>28469876
based knower

>>28468435
Also, American buyers won't buy cars if they're nit sufficiently flashy.

>>28468472
>>28468478
it's the double chin
pre-facelift front with post-facelift windshield/hood area would have been ideal
the older round headlights and simpler front grill looked better

>>28468431 (OP)
Cars are increasingly designed to appeal to Arabs, Chinese, and sometimes Blacks rather than Europeans and Americans.

>>28468435
The RAM today is an improvement over the blobeye, thougheverbeit

>>28470895
I only see them when I'm in Italy these days. Not a huge fan of the old front end, but I really like the boxy shape. Especially the rear looks good because the wheels pushed so far into the corners. Only slightly lowered would make these look really FAT imo

>>28468693
What the fuck are you talking about the generic hardedgue and le evil reddit face shit now makes hotwheels look simple and smooth.

>>28468431 (OP)
2025 looks better tho

>>28469560
I want to live in a world where this was made in instead of Veyron

>>28472128
I want to live in a world where they made both Nardo and Veyron.
And also XL1 and XL Sport.

>>28472176
Don't forget the original 18 cylinder Chiron.

>>28468431 (OP)
top was made for asians and gulf arabs
bottom was made for whites

>>28468431 (OP)
Bottom was very edgy at the time too.
Guess what? People will be comparing the C12 corvette to the C8 in the future claiming the C8 was modest in comparison

>>28472396
they can't keep designing it more and more edgy indefinitely
also, sooner or later a cultural change will come and the design will calm down, I believe

>>28472543
just wait until every car looks like the new Jaguar

>>28468431 (OP)
At a guess, I'm going to say "Cal Arts", since they've ruined virtually every other aspect of visual design.

>>28472627
If we manage to get rid of the Jews and the third worlders in time they will follow the n vision style.

don't know but had my dream car z06 for 3 years now. its the good blend of mechanical and electronic. the kind of shit that every other 2000s sports owner talks about. muh feel and excitement. so raw but you still got actively handling. in some ways cars have already peaked. in some way they havent. all about what you like. i know where i want to be and ive got a car from that era that is ridiculously good for being 25 years old.

>>28473690
Those are some tiny people.

>>28473695
I've looked at that pic a few times and now I see the perspective and you've fucking ruined it for me.

>>28473695
They are the least malent amerifats

>>28473690
based

The c5 is such a boomermobile just looking at one makes me want to drink a budweiser and pray for israel

>>28473690
Nice, I'm thinking about getting one
Mainly because I want to drive something cool that I can crash
Can't do that with a viper

>>28472396
No it wasn't lmao

>>28468621
Can that dude even see above the steering wheel? My head is just an inch under the top in the 440i; dude must be 5'2".

>>28472179
jesus
>hey who wants to lap 72 valves?

Modern lambos and ferraris are overdesigned shitboxes too

>>28468433
it looks like gaming mouse

>>28468431 (OP)
>What happened to car design?
Americans won't buy fast cars if they're not flashy. They tried understated design in the past and buyers ignore them like everyone else who doesn't care about cars.

>>28471737
Either stop phone-posting or lrn2english.

>>28476250
Sleeper cars are gay as fuck. Every guy that gushes over sleeper cars are some sort of weird soi boy. If you want a cool car, then make it look cool. They want every car to look like boring NPC cars.

>>28477140
12 year old detected

>>28477144
Convince us why cool cars should look uncool

>>28477154
maybe not everybody is so insecure he needs to shout to the world "look at me! look at me! look at my cool car and look how cool I am!"
maybe I just want the good driving experience without other people noticing too much

>>28473705
Sorry, fixed it for you. And totally didn't add anything else in there either.

>>28477245
That's your reasoning for not wanting a cool car? Because someone else might see it and assume silly things?

Literally who cares. You buy a car for yourself. I want something that makes me look back at it while I walk away. I appreciate beauty. I don't care about other people and I definitely don't treat it as a status symbol like some brownoid.

>>28477335
for me the cool lies in how it looks like a shitbox but can keep up with a ferrari or whatever

>>28477393
That sounds like insecurity. Also very try-hard to LARP as something you aren't.

>>28477245
>>28477393
stop worrying so much about what other people think

>>28477154
have you ever considered that for something as subjective as looks, some people may prefer the thing you find uncool?

>>28477461
Show me these "people"

>>28477419
>>28477425
maybe cool isn't the right word. funny, more like it. yeah. it's just funny. especially when people get assblasted by it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-1OlniW4bc

>>28477470
Hi

>>28477508
>4chins members make a significant part of new car buyers' demographic
You probably aren't a buyer at all, that's just another manifestation of a contrarian mindset. I won't even ask you to show your car.

>>28477535
>new car buyers demographic
oh ok here's the best selling new car then, wow so cool looking

>>28477552
It's a Toyota, they can make it look like some disgusting alien and still be at the top. Oh, wait, they already did that with Lexus.

>>28472396
>Bottom was very edgy at the time too.

You have the understanding of aesthetics of a legally retarded person

The C5 was a blander version of the C4 design-wise. It was the definition of a tame design update

>>28477290
im not seeing anything else so I will trust an anon on 4chan against my better judgement. thank you.

>>28477552
The people buying that don't care about aesthetics, they just want something practical that runs forever with basic maintenance.
That said, I think it's not bad in the right trim.

>>28477899
>not bad in the right trim.
>glossy painted parts that get most scratches
>something practical

>>28472396
C5s were never edgy. They were going for a classic curvy sports car look.

>>28477290
big foot if he real

>>28477335
what i want to know is how a bunch of video game trannies are better car designers than literally every person at every car company in the world right now.

>>28477552
It looks like a libtard soijak

>>28478839
but enough about you

>new AMG GT XX hypercar concept
>is not ANGERY TRIANGLES AND WINGS
was the problem the americans all along?

>>28478505
Not really, it was just the styling in general during that era.

styling goes through cycles of smooth/edgy or tame/extreme. In a little bit, we'll see the vette become a rounded bullet wedge shape. Right now its like a c3-c4 with how the c7-c8 has been

>>28479955
It's a hungry fish with glowing mouth

>>28468596
The belt line really isn't that high up on that one.

>>28479955
>4 door uber car
>Le catfish face
>Bug-eyed
This is gay as fuck

>>28480122
>isn't that high up
Are you retarded? That's how it should be with crossovers.

>>28474167
Fucking kek. I didn't even notice there was a little guy behind the wheel. I thought it was a stationary car with a CG background.

>>28468431 (OP)
The disappointing reality is that most consumers will not buy the Corvette on the bottom anymore. Most of the people buying C8s are not car nerds, they're boomers who want a weekend toy. I think initially supercars and high end sports cars like ferraris were styled like this for aero reasons in the late 2000s-2010s, and now other brands are copying that but without any true aero benefit (fake vents, fake exhausts) because they want to associate with brands like lambo and ferrari.

Also, who cares? You can still buy a near mint C5 for $20,000 or less.

>>28480159
/o/tards cry about belt line then say that the model y looks like a fishbowl

>>28474167
It probably has a bucket seat set really low so that there's room for a tall guy with a helmet on. He might actually be average height, I'm 5'10" and felt about that low in the car when I drove my old shop's E92 track car, which was set up for my 6'3" boss.

>>28480564
What is the point of your reply?

>>28468433
That last point is the moment of decline.

Generally I'm a sucker for Lambos but I HATE the Veneno. It's so horrendously garish compared to the Aventador.

I would gladly pay 1/10th the price of this abomination to not have to own it.

It's a shame since the Reventón (which is the Murciélago's equivalent "super premium" model) looks just fine (it's basically a matte gunmetal Murc).

>>28468745
These were peak years for cars and bikes

>>28482181
Add about 10 years and you're correct.

>>28482192
1932 does get the first v8 ford
An eagle sheds a tear

would the cf spoiler be too much?

>>28482422
Yes, looks aftermarket.

>>28482422
Yeah, way too much, they should have just come with a duckbill spoiler at most.

>>28482515
>>28482567
to clarify top is stock and bottom is aftermarket

>>28482422
>>28482577
aftermarket one looks better imo

>>28482577
Aftermarket looks better than the stock version, but no spoiler would be better than either.

>>28470388
I just know lard courses through your veins

>>28468431 (OP)
They wanted to do it sooner but CAD wasn't there yet

>>28484432
I wonder what's the first car designed entirely in cad, rather than trying different shit out in a wind tunnel?

>>28484682
according to a quick and frivolous google search it was Peugeot 204 in 1968

>>28478833
>a bunch of video game trannies are better car designers than literally every person at every car company in the world right now
It's honestly pathetic. We could have some amazing looking cars but all we get is boring slop

>>28488423
Blame the safety regulations.