Awkward design details on production cars

[dazwalsh]

Pretty much the entire design phikosophy of the lexus nx.



Oh and the alloys on the vaixhall Adam, where one blade is coloured.

Edited by dazwalsh on Friday 20th May 21:58

[Jtotheg]

I really dislike P O R S C H E. I also can't believe the Cactus took so long to appear on the thread.

This is all kinds of wrong...

[Dyl]

Dyl said:

My bugbear with the new Jags - XE, XF and F-Pace - are that the exhausts seem ever so slightly too close together. I feel they should both be another 10cm toward to sides of the car.

Since I am bored I just did a very rough photoshop.

[jonnM]

LuS1fer said:

The high bulbous nose and unflattering headlights of the new Mustang GT

Edited by LuS1fer on Friday 20th May 18:04

I think they look fking fantastic!

[Blown2CV]

Dyl said:

Dyl said:

My bugbear with the new Jags - XE, XF and F-Pace - are that the exhausts seem ever so slightly too close together. I feel they should both be another 10cm toward to sides of the car.

Since I am bored I just did a very rough photoshop.

Go on change the badge for a growler!

[GroundEffect]

In general, the 488GTB is a better resolved car than the 458...BUT:



The intakes above the rear wheels are a total drag on the design. They look too big, too high up. I recognise why they are there...but surely they could have done better with them?

[Dyl]

Blown2CV said:

Dyl said:

Dyl said:

My bugbear with the new Jags - XE, XF and F-Pace - are that the exhausts seem ever so slightly too close together. I feel they should both be another 10cm toward to sides of the car.

Since I am bored I just did a very rough photoshop.

Go on change the badge for a growler!

Even rougher 'shop, only using iPad app, but here you go

[ajprice]

GroundEffect said:

In general, the 488GTB is a better resolved car than the 458...BUT:



The intakes above the rear wheels are a total drag on the design. They look too big, too high up. I recognise why they are there...but surely they could have done better with them?

The thing that bugs me with that is how low down the door the doorhandles are.

Oh and I like the Citroen Cactus

[anonymous-user]

Blown2CV said:

Go on change the badge for a growler!

Subtler growler

[Dyl]

cb1965 said:

Blown2CV said:

Go on change the badge for a growler!

Subtler growler

much better

[drivin_me_nuts]

GSE said:

Another rear light cluster offender:

How does (to my eyes) such an obvious blunder get signed off?



Thankfully corrected on the facelift:

I have yet to see an XF5 with oval pipes that are actually level. Most droop and just make the whole thing shonky.

[Blown2CV]

cb1965 said:

Blown2CV said:

Go on change the badge for a growler!

Subtler growler

It's now basically a 3 series! Identical.

[anonymous-user]

Blown2CV said:

It's now basically a 3 series! Identical.

That may well be what they were aiming for given the popularity of the 3!

[anonymous-user]

Drove a Peugeot 208 a little while back and it wasn't a bad little car with (I think) a little 1.2, 3 cylinder engine it. But the gear change was so so long. It was so strange in this little car to be have to throw the gear-lever through a really long travel.

[HD Adam]

Dyl said:

cb1965 said:

Blown2CV said:

Go on change the badge for a growler!

Subtler growler

much better

Yep.

Don't care what Callum says. This looks better.

Presuming, like most modern cars, the badge is stuck on with double sided tape, if I bought one I would have to swap it over.

[Limpet]

DiscoColin said:

Anything with entirely too much model description badging going on. I am astonished that there are people who don't take the "delete model inscription" option on 911s. It is pretty much the only thing that they don't charge extra for too...

Yep, completely agree.

Looks as tacky and silly as it did in the 1980s when the Japanese manufacturers used to do it.

[Hugh Jarse]

HD Adam said:

Dyl said:

cb1965 said:

Blown2CV said:

Go on change the badge for a growler!

Subtler growler

much better

Yep.

Don't care what Callum says. This looks better.

Presuming, like most modern cars, the badge is stuck on with double sided tape, if I bought one I would have to swap it over.

Agree, the larger growler (snigger) was OK too.

[teg98]

The new revised mini clubman rear. Two things bug me. The clubman badge, a 7 letter word, split into 4 letters one side and 3 the other on the back doors.
And the brake lights in the lower light cluster rather than the more obvious place in the upper cluster.

[ch108]

Now I know the Corsa has never been a design icon, but the new rear lights look hideous. They look like they've just used Astra lights and glued them on top of the old rear end.

New hideous lights:



Old normal lights:

[David87]

The new Ford S-MAX has rear lights that look like they're broken.