Cars That Are Ageing Badly
Discussion
Nickbrapp said:
same with the last gen e class. The original had all xenon and led, then they face lifted it and fitted led dipped with a halogen main beam and a standard indicator. Why?!
To try and temp people to fork out £2k for the intelligent light sytem, makes all the lights LED as well as cornering lights and auto main beam which moves around to not dazzle others, I really like having it fitted, but I don't think I'd have paid £2k if I'd got it new. Although the latest XC90 is a very modern looking car I saw a white one with black bumpers and it looked really rather dated.
This is the only picture I could find of one and does do it justice.
Edited by carlove on Wednesday 21st September 08:45
Nickbrapp said:
I would bet that any new car that mixes halogen, xenon and iridescent bulbs together looks dated.
It really annoys me when I see a BMW with xenon dipped beams, led DRL and a iridescent bulb for the indicator. 2£7 do they keep doing it? Every new model ffs then the lci gets Led indactors. Fine 10 years ago but not now. The new x1 has iridescent too.
Jags are just as bad.
Saw a outlander too, xenon dipped with a halogen main, wtf?
same with the last gen e class. The original had all xenon and led, then they face lifted it and fitted led dipped with a halogen main beam and a standard indicator. Why?!
Do you mean incandescent?It really annoys me when I see a BMW with xenon dipped beams, led DRL and a iridescent bulb for the indicator. 2£7 do they keep doing it? Every new model ffs then the lci gets Led indactors. Fine 10 years ago but not now. The new x1 has iridescent too.
Jags are just as bad.
Saw a outlander too, xenon dipped with a halogen main, wtf?
same with the last gen e class. The original had all xenon and led, then they face lifted it and fitted led dipped with a halogen main beam and a standard indicator. Why?!
carlove said:
To try and temp people to fork out £2k for the intelligent light sytem, makes all the lights LED as well as cornering lights and auto main beam which moves around to not dazzle others, I really like having it fitted, but I don't think I'd have paid £2k if I'd got it new.
Although the latest XC90 is a very modern looking car I saw a white one with black bumpers and it looked really rather dated.
This is the only picture I could find of one and does do it justice.
That's a £3800 optional pack to get the black cladding on the XC90, a lot of money to make the car look dated.Although the latest XC90 is a very modern looking car I saw a white one with black bumpers and it looked really rather dated.
This is the only picture I could find of one and does do it justice.
Edited by carlove on Wednesday 21st September 08:45
r11co said:
This thread is the antithesis of all those 'most modern looking old cars' or 'which old car would look not out of place new today' threads. Invariably the point is missed and people start to post pictures of cars they like. Some lunatic even suggested the Mk1 CRX was 'modern looking'.
In here when someone posts a car that meets the brief, someone misses the point and defends it as 'good looking'.
The 8 series is the epitome of a car of its time. It is the Peter Stringfellow of cars. Looks old and is old.
Thread title is "Cars that are ageing badly".In here when someone posts a car that meets the brief, someone misses the point and defends it as 'good looking'.
The 8 series is the epitome of a car of its time. It is the Peter Stringfellow of cars. Looks old and is old.
A 27 year old car that looks old (but still sharp) is not ageing badly.
A 5 year old car that looks old is.
r11co said:
In here when someone posts a car that meets the brief, someone misses the point and defends it as 'good looking'.
The 8 series is the epitome of a car of its time. It is the Peter Stringfellow of cars. Looks old and is old.
Indeed. The 8 is a wonderfully handsome piece of kit, but nobody in their right mind could possibly describe it as being "modern-looking". It's a design which is absolutely of its era, which is what makes it so appealing.The 8 series is the epitome of a car of its time. It is the Peter Stringfellow of cars. Looks old and is old.
r11co said:
AW111 said:
A 27 year old car that looks old (but still sharp) is not ageing badly..
Surely that is an oxymoron?A car can look like it's from another era but still be a very fine thing to behold.
If someone said a Lamborghini Miura or Ferrari 275GTB had aged badly just because they look like they were built in the 1960s, most would agree that was a stupid thing to say.
A car aging BADLY is one which had some naff attribute about it that looks particularly naff now - as a 1980s mullet hair cut or stone cladding your semi-detached housing estate house would.
sleepera6 said:
ChrisR99 said:
[quote=Löyly]The old Peugeot 207 tail lights have aged appallingly. They always looked bad but the passage of time has not been kind. They have that awful design of a single bulb beneath a perforated cover to attempt to give the impression of an LED cluster or similar. It was a look that was just becoming popular then and the 207 seemed to want in on that style without any of the technology. I always hated these lights, particularly when the indicstor is flashing inside and highlights just how naff the whole thing looks.
Have to say I disagree with that, we had a 207 up until recently and I thought the lights looked pretty good seeing the design is 10 years old. Mk2 A3 looks pretty dated now, but then it always looked boring.
Assume that means the Alfa has aged well
The Vauxhall Mokka (I shudder just typing the words) looked out of date the moment it was released, even more so now it's been left behind by latest Astra and Corsa. Perhaps I have a bias though, as it's such a dreadful car in so many respects. That it's the 9th best selling car in the UK says a lot about the general public IMO (data here http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/best-cars/94280/best-...
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