Thread 28602418

Pls explain this ridiculous car trend from recent years in the market, and lack of diverse design other than progressively-common angry car faces. Yes, psychologically speaking, cars have "faces", it's a form of pareidolia.
I get it if we're talking about sports cars, but almost every car nowadays looks angry, even to the point that some Jeep owners (and Dodge Neon owners), for some weird reason, add a literal design modification to their vehicle's front lights so that they aren't famously round anymore. Modern Fiat 500's and Mini Cooper's, which also had iconic, rounded front lights, also look angrier now. WHY? What market need is being met or what problem does this trend solve?
What kind of society are we living in, or civilization, where the more neuroticism there seems to be on the roads, coincides with more angry car faces on the roads? Why is society being manipulated like this? And what is the end goal?

Relevant links:
"Why Do Modern Cars Look Angry?" (DW REV - Cars & Mobility)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkXjQzvd-LU

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-new-car-s-front-especially-Germans-seem-so-angry-bad-and-threatening

https://old.reddit.com/r/regularcarreviews/comments/1l1mx2e/is_anyone_else_tired_of_the_angry_face_design/

>>28602418 (OP)
>angry
I call it the coffin grid.
It is horrible.
The powers that be have ruined cars on the inside and the outside.

>>28602418 (OP)
women

they are intrinsically insecure and frightful. they want their vehicle to be large and intimidating to compensate for their shortcomings. Women account for the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of consumer spending, so everything caters to them now.

All cars have to have the same overweight bar of soap sloppa shape due to regulations so all they can do to give a sense of sleekness is redesign the headlights to be smaller and thinner (the fact they are sealed units that cost $500 is a bonus) or add fake grills.

>>28602418 (OP)
He cute

>>28602602
>The powers that be have ruined cars on the inside and the outside.
I've heard they have been trying to slowly turn car design language into something more akin to home appliances, as that would have the effect of killing automotive passion (which has traditionally been based on internal combustion engines, even though electric vehicles are not new and already existed at the beginning of the XX Century), in the name of globalist green socialism / modern environmentalism. I think this is also why some car companies like Jaguar have subtly changed their marketing from selling cars to selling mobility solutions, whatever that means. I guess places like 15-minutes cities designed with S.M.A.R.T. technology in mind, have "mobility solutions" instead of the cars we always knew and loved.

Picrel is the Citroën Ami, a little vehicle that to me seems like the kind of car you would find moving inside a 15-minute city while people are eating ze bugs, sharing their belongings because they own nothing and are still somehow "happy" (in a kind of "Brave New World" way, perhaps). Notice the friendly-looking, rounded headlights!

>>28602699
The Porsche 911 is a great car model. (And I must clarify that I wouldn't normally have a problem with aggressive-looking headlights if designed well, and if they fit a sports car or supercar.)

>>28602602
>The powers that be have ruined cars on the inside and the outside.
I've heard they have been trying to slowly turn car design language into something more akin to home appliances, as that would have the effect of killing automotive passion (which has traditionally been based on internal combustion engines, even though electric vehicles are not new and already existed at the beginning of the XX Century), in the name of globalist green socialism / modern environmentalism. I think this is also why some car companies like Jaguar have subtly changed their marketing from selling cars to selling mobility solutions, whatever that means. I guess places like 15-minutes cities designed with S.M.A.R.T. technology in mind, have "mobility solutions" instead of the cars we always knew and loved.

Picrel is the Citroën Ami, a little vehicle that to me seems like the kind of car you would find moving inside a 15-minute city while people are eating ze bugs, sharing their belongings because they own nothing and are still somehow "happy" (in a kind of "Brave New World" way, perhaps). Notice the friendly-looking, rounded headlights!

>>28602608
>euros have by far the highest % of female spending
Lmao no wonder they're so cucked and faggoty.

Most car companies are pinging the same market research firms running the same focus groups for any sort of direction. They basically end up telling all of them to do the same thing.
>Make numerous crossovers to make sure you cover your bases
>Everyone likes bold and aggressive designs so do that too
There was a rumor that Ford and numerous such firms were hesitant on the Maverick but now that they took that risk of adding a bed to a crossover, these groups are telling everyone else to do the same so they don't miss out on this brand new segment.

Try comparing Honda Japan with Honda USA. Japan still has cute Japan-only vehicles but anything going to both is designed with sharp angery that most companies have been doing.

>>28602794
There is nothing with wrong with cars as appliances, there are real enthusiast icons that have come from that design brief.

>>28602778
It's one of the few modern cars that doesn't look like some overly styled, pissy little bitch in the rear view mirror. Most people see a face at the front of a car, and an angry one just looks goofy, you must admit.

I think the angry faces look really bad. It was a big factor in my decision to buy picrel as my daily.

Angry face causes subconscious stress and aggression which lead to more accidents so insurance companies can raise your rate claiming you live in a "high risk" area.

i love the challenger's smug grin and bedroom eyes, the vents on the hood give it cartoon eyebrows and it reminds me of the chaika face meme

>>28603037
This NC flooded nigga toucher wants to MOLEST his MACHINE

>>28603037
like god dammit
>big burly american mooscle car
>:D face like a sacabambaspis

>>28603039
imagine elbow deep in a 9 year old chrysler thoughbeit

>>28603048
>imagine elbow deep in a 9 year old
I just want to be tongue deep, I'm a gentle guy

>>28603050
somewhat difficult to turn a socket wrench that way but you rock on king

>>28603065
the weak should fear the strong

>>28603037
idk, for me i don't see the challenger having a mouth, it looks masculine and stone-faced to me

>>28603186
the LC has that exact look of disgust and derision
LA is the LC after one bong rip

>>28602794
I disagree 100%.
Engine bays are too big, and the interiors are often very tiny for how big the cars are.
Cars without anything in the back is missing an entirely flat floor as a factory options, and cars often have HUGE engine bays for BEV vehicles with miniscule frunks.

What has happened is that there are barely any OEMs left.
Stellantis
VAG
A bunch of competing CCP brands, who is also selling a lot of models for other continent OEMs. Even more so when a lot of them are selling BYD/CATL skateboard platforms.
Toyota vs Japanese OEMs
FORD
There are now 5 car designs per class, because guess what... by this point there is only realistically just 7 manufacturers left despite global stock ownership trade exchange.

>>28603065
This twingo looks evil

>>28603065
>>28603834
I think it's seen some shit.

>>28602418 (OP)
Recent example: >>28603821

>>28602608
>Women account for the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of consumer spending
this is why all cars are just screens now too. it impresses their small brains

>>28602794
>Citroën Ami
it's a car for literal children to drive before they can get a licence
if anything it promotes personal car ownership to the new generation

>>28602794
I like this lil fella

>>28603083
>>28603868
kek

>>28602806
The "wrong" element I tried to point out is not design diversity meeting various market niche's needs, but this forced, subtle, suspicious homogeneity that is probably meant to serve particular politics, since we live in times of globohomo-fascism (which includes forcefully moving the car market away from internal combustion engines to EV's). The problem is intentionally killing automotive passion in the name of a questionable, left-leaning ideology such as environmentalism, which serves as a pretext for imposing globalist green socialism.

Furthermore, it's just this weird phenomenon that is so pervasive yet so freaking difficult to pinpoint as to its root cause, like smartphones back in 2014 having actual personality depending on the brand as well as more useful features like front-facing speakers and removable batteries, versus the smartphone industry losing individual personality after the iPhone X and homogeneizing their products into clearly mass-surveillance hardware, as opposed to humane and ethical communications technology. And then a lot of companies redesigning their own logos in a hyperminimalistic, bland way. It's almost nightmarish when you think about it. A sign of the times.

Picrel is Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum's version of the VW Type 1 (a.k.a. the Beetle) and the Trabant, from the "Olinia" brand, but in meme form, not as it was officially anounced. It has that home-appliance look to it, but slanted headlights, so it's not really like modern EV's are designed to look friendlier or nicer than internal combustion cars.

The problem is when people are forced to a few or a single kind of choice in the market, as opposed to a more organic diversity of purchase choices, which a free market economy ought to have.

>>28602418 (OP)
I like my happy 2010s Early retro faces

>>28603036
>LOOK AT THIS CARBON-FARTING, BIG MEANIE VEHICLE RUNNING ON (allegedly) EXTINCT DINOSAUR JUICE, GRRRR.

>>28604166
Looks like a happy spider

>>28603907
Beautiful subie.

>>28603037
It looks like an grumpy retard lmao

>>28605194
the eyes are just closed anon, of course he has a face

>>28603048
On the front page??