Awkward design details on production cars

[stephen300o]

tobinen said:

A fairly clean design but spoiled when the rear windows are lowered. They don't go down all the way, presumably as this is where the front seat belt mechanism is located.

They did pretty well considering how close the rear wheel is.

[Hugh Jarse]

ReaperCushions said:

The top door line of rear doors on the QX56 annoy the heck out of me dipping down at the end:

Looks like the roof line is out of shape when its actually straight.
See also 'hidden' handles and odd shaped headlights.

Blimey what a mishmash of incoherence.
That's what cars look like when drunk.

Edited by Hugh Jarse on Wednesday 25th May 09:45

[carl_w]

Dads Taxi said:

My first post, so please be gentle.

The 'gills' on the doors of L405 FFRRs really grate.


At least on the L322 there was some pretence that the wing mounted ones may be practical.

They do grate, and I can't unsee this now.

[swisstoni]

Alright I'll play.

This thing bugs me every time my eye falls on it. I know why they had to do it, but still...

[nullogik]

tobinen said:

A fairly clean design but spoiled when the rear windows are lowered. They don't go down all the way, presumably as this is where the front seat belt mechanism is located.

The C207 CLK. That little pillar within the rear window looks awkward. It really spoils the side profile but necessary seeing how far back the window stretches and the position of the filler cap.



Reminds me of this when I see it, albeit not as obvious:



Compared to the previous generation:

Edited by nullogik on Wednesday 25th May 10:04

Edited by nullogik on Wednesday 25th May 10:13

[anonymous-user]

swisstoni said:

Alright I'll play.

This thing bugs me every time my eye falls on it. I know why they had to do it, but still...

Yep! And I always clout it when I'm washing the car. The rest of the car is a rarity in Merc's line up though as it's a stunning design!

[mph1977]

Hugh Jarse said:

ReaperCushions said:

The top door line of rear doors on the QX56 annoy the heck out of me dipping down at the end:

Looks like the roof line is out of shape when its actually straight.
See also 'hidden' handles and odd shaped headlights.

Blimey what a mishmash of incoherence.
That's what cars look like when drunk.

Edited by Hugh Jarse on Wednesday 25th May 09:45

possibly becasue it;s a blinged up version of a Nissan

[BrownBottle]

Whilst we're on Mercs, it's an old one but I always found the door handles on the C126 an abomination that ruined the smooth look of the car.





Looks like something off the back of an an artic.

[rodericb]

mph1977 said:

Hugh Jarse said:

ReaperCushions said:

The top door line of rear doors on the QX56 annoy the heck out of me dipping down at the end:

Looks like the roof line is out of shape when its actually straight.
See also 'hidden' handles and odd shaped headlights.

Blimey what a mishmash of incoherence.
That's what cars look like when drunk.

Edited by Hugh Jarse on Wednesday 25th May 09:45

possibly becasue it;s a blinged up version of a Nissan

Yeah some of those Infinitis are hideous. This particular thing has a face which looks like a piggy from Angry Birds.

[l354uge]

look at the ends of the chrome strip on the boot.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[Antony Moxey]

l354uge said:

look at the ends of the chrome strip on the boot.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Presumably to prevent them fouling on the light clusters. Now that would look daft and probably send you completely apoplectic if you're going to get that hysterical over a couple of corners being cut off...

[mattlad]

mph1977 said:

jamies30 said:

beach bum said:

While the Zagato Version of the Giulia Gt is pretty sexy, as soon as I look around the back, I want to throw up.

Which bit in particular?

botched on parts bin rear lights ?

They look like they were swiped from the back of someone's caravan!

[smithyithy]

Nickbrapp said:

they didnt even bother to fit aero wipers, which are standard on a fiesta, so i doubt they would do anything else. god awful Brazilian car. The old style hook wipers are totally unacceptable today, they have they on the nissan juke too, and a selection of awful suzukis

On the subject of not fitting aero wipers..

I recently rewatched Chris Harris's video of the 3 new hypercars on track, and noticed that the front wiper on the LaFerrari resembles something from the 90's.. compared to the modern looking ones on the P1 etc.

[mattlad]

miniman said:

I've never quite understood this:

Drive one.

[wst]

B2UFO said:

Not a lot of people like Ferrari Enzo but I love it! The things that need sorting on this car for me is the passenger wing mirror. And the ugly USA side markers, Ferrari never put them on the 288 GTO, F40, F50 and LaFerrari European models so why the Enzo. Got respect for USA traffic laws but they could at least make them blend in.

Could have picked a good angle to see them.

[Riley Blue]

teg98 said:

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.

I followed one yesterday and when it braked my immediate thought was that some muppet had wired up the rear lights wrong but no, it's apparently intentional - it looks stupid.

[F1GTRUeno]

RS Sean said:

Citroen C4 Cactus. Why have they stuck egg boxes on the doors?

Now you see I really like the Cactus, the doors are like that so that dings and scrapes are met with rubber rather than metal and thus, don't actually get dinged or scraped which is perfect considering it's a car designed for mums with kids.

The only thing that annoys me about it is the body coloured panel behind the C-pillar, it should be black like the surround of it is to follow the window line all the way to the back but instead it looks like they've stuck an oversized petrol filler panel up there.

[Dads Taxi]

The position of the rear foglight switch on the Jaguar XF is irritating - down by your right knee, next to the boot release, and hidden by the steering wheel. Why?

[Prof Prolapse]

Dads Taxi said:

The position of the rear foglight switch on the Jaguar XF is irritating - down by your right knee, next to the boot release, and hidden by the steering wheel. Why?

To give you the time to think "do I need to turn these on, or am I just being a dick?"

[ReaperCushions]

rodericb said:

mph1977 said:

Hugh Jarse said:

ReaperCushions said:

The top door line of rear doors on the QX56 annoy the heck out of me dipping down at the end:

Looks like the roof line is out of shape when its actually straight.
See also 'hidden' handles and odd shaped headlights.

Blimey what a mishmash of incoherence.
That's what cars look like when drunk.

Edited by Hugh Jarse on Wednesday 25th May 09:45

possibly becasue it;s a blinged up version of a Nissan

Yeah some of those Infinitis are hideous. This particular thing has a face which looks like a piggy from Angry Birds.

Indeed, the basic nissan version is even worse, at least the bling add some shiney shiney.