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I'm convinced there's only a small subset of adults who still regularly see faces in cars. Perhaps Thomas The Tank Engine had some detrimental effect in their formative years.
Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
swisstoni said:
I'm convinced there's only a small subset of adults who still regularly see faces in cars. Perhaps Thomas The Tank Engine had some detrimental effect in their formative years.
Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
It’s quite normal and called pereidolia.Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
“This robust and subtle capability is hypothesized to be the result of eons of natural selection favoring people most able to quickly identify the mental state, for example, of threatening people, thus providing the individual an opportunity to flee or attack pre-emptively. In other words, processing this information subcortically — therefore subconsciously — before it is passed on to the rest of the brain for detailed processing accelerates judgment and decision making when a fast reaction is needed.”
Unfortunately if you can’t see faces in cars or other objects, it’s you with the lacking cognitive processes and you’d be more likely to be a victim of natural selection.
Car manufacturers have know this from the start.
“And when it comes to cars, the face does matter, even for laypeople. Research suggests that buyers tend to prefer cars with more aggressive, angry faces. Live Science details one study that showed car faces to people and asked their preferences. It turned out the people took mostly strong to cars that had “slit-like or angled headlights with a wider air intake”—faces with “power” traits.”
Smithsonian.
swisstoni said:
I'm convinced there's only a small subset of adults who still regularly see faces in cars. Perhaps Thomas The Tank Engine had some detrimental effect in their formative years.
Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
Arrrr, who wants to be an adult matey? (said with a Pirate accent).Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
DonkeyApple said:
Everyone will like this little gurner because in a society where consumers shop by price tag this one is telling them that it is great.
Surely the tvr is expensive enough to make people think it look is great if it was all about price?
El stovey said:
I think that look is great. It’s nothing to do with it being a Ferrari though. It’s about the visual appearance.
Surely the tvr is expensive enough to make people think it look is great if it was all about price?
It almost pulls of the traditional delicacy of Italian design but it has the gurning smile. Surely the tvr is expensive enough to make people think it look is great if it was all about price?
As for brand value, TVR is nowhere near the likes of Ferrari. Such brands are near Giffen/Veblen territory.
DonkeyApple said:
It almost pulls of the traditional delicacy of Italian design but it has the gurning smile.
As for brand value, TVR is nowhere near the likes of Ferrari. Such brands are near Giffen/Veblen territory.
I don’t see the same gurning in that Ferrari though. The lights especially add a more menacing expression. As for brand value, TVR is nowhere near the likes of Ferrari. Such brands are near Giffen/Veblen territory.
It’s about a combination of the lights and the grill. It’s not about cost at all.
With the TVR it’s not just the face though, it’s about how the car looks as a whole. Yes it’s got a silly face but the rest doesn’t seem to flow together. It looks like the front back and sides were designed by different people and they just stuck their sections together when they ran out of time.
Stovey, price is hugely important in defining how people look at goods.
As for the rest of the car, I like it. I’m not seeing an issue with the lights, that discussion on this thread has gone over my head but I do see the issue with the grill. I prefer a car to look like someone has just farted in the lift rather than looking like there is an unexpected item in the bagging area.
As for the rest of the car, I like it. I’m not seeing an issue with the lights, that discussion on this thread has gone over my head but I do see the issue with the grill. I prefer a car to look like someone has just farted in the lift rather than looking like there is an unexpected item in the bagging area.
DonkeyApple said:
Stovey, price is hugely important in defining how people look at goods.
As for the rest of the car, I like it. I’m not seeing an issue with the lights, that discussion on this thread has gone over my head but I do see the issue with the grill. I prefer a car to look like someone has just farted in the lift rather than looking like there is an unexpected item in the bagging area.
I agree entirely. I often see luxury goods or cars and think the branding is driving demand rather than the aesthetics. With cars though, it’s not a huge surprise if more upmarket brands are attracting better designers and producing more attractive designs. Obviously in hyper car territory like Bugatti and it’s also about producing OTT designs that might look a bit vulgar but they’re supposed to look expensive and outlandish, As for the rest of the car, I like it. I’m not seeing an issue with the lights, that discussion on this thread has gone over my head but I do see the issue with the grill. I prefer a car to look like someone has just farted in the lift rather than looking like there is an unexpected item in the bagging area.
I just don’t look at the Ferrari you showed us and think it looks silly or gurning.
El stovey said:
swisstoni said:
I'm convinced there's only a small subset of adults who still regularly see faces in cars. Perhaps Thomas The Tank Engine had some detrimental effect in their formative years.
Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
It’s quite normal and called pereidolia.Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
“This robust and subtle capability is hypothesized to be the result of eons of natural selection favoring people most able to quickly identify the mental state, for example, of threatening people, thus providing the individual an opportunity to flee or attack pre-emptively. In other words, processing this information subcortically — therefore subconsciously — before it is passed on to the rest of the brain for detailed processing accelerates judgment and decision making when a fast reaction is needed.”
Unfortunately if you can’t see faces in cars or other objects, it’s you with the lacking cognitive processes and you’d be more likely to be a victim of natural selection.
Car manufacturers have know this from the start.
“And when it comes to cars, the face does matter, even for laypeople. Research suggests that buyers tend to prefer cars with more aggressive, angry faces. Live Science details one study that showed car faces to people and asked their preferences. It turned out the people took mostly strong to cars that had “slit-like or angled headlights with a wider air intake”—faces with “power” traits.”
Smithsonian.
One is the facility to interpret facial expressions on people and animals (ie things with faces in the first place
) And the other is 'research' where people were shown some cars and asked 'which face do you prefer' thus presupposing there is a face to be looked for.
Clearly some people do see faces in things. It's whether its common or normal to do this all the time that I'm having trouble with.
No doubt its a jolly world to live in but I'm not sorry to be missing out.
swisstoni said:
El stovey said:
swisstoni said:
I'm convinced there's only a small subset of adults who still regularly see faces in cars. Perhaps Thomas The Tank Engine had some detrimental effect in their formative years.
Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
It’s quite normal and called pereidolia.Driving about today I forced myself to find faces on vehicles and with some effort it's possible. But only with conscious effort.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
“This robust and subtle capability is hypothesized to be the result of eons of natural selection favoring people most able to quickly identify the mental state, for example, of threatening people, thus providing the individual an opportunity to flee or attack pre-emptively. In other words, processing this information subcortically — therefore subconsciously — before it is passed on to the rest of the brain for detailed processing accelerates judgment and decision making when a fast reaction is needed.”
Unfortunately if you can’t see faces in cars or other objects, it’s you with the lacking cognitive processes and you’d be more likely to be a victim of natural selection.
Car manufacturers have know this from the start.
“And when it comes to cars, the face does matter, even for laypeople. Research suggests that buyers tend to prefer cars with more aggressive, angry faces. Live Science details one study that showed car faces to people and asked their preferences. It turned out the people took mostly strong to cars that had “slit-like or angled headlights with a wider air intake”—faces with “power” traits.”
Smithsonian.
One is the facility to interpret facial expressions on people and animals (ie things with faces in the first place
) And the other is 'research' where people were shown some cars and asked 'which face do you prefer' thus presupposing there is a face to be looked for.
Clearly some people do see faces in things. It's whether its common or normal to do this all the time that I'm having trouble with.
No doubt its a jolly world to live in but I'm not sorry to be missing out.
“ . . a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus, usually an image or a sound, by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists”
It is caused by.
“eons of natural selection favoring people most able to quickly identify the mental state, for example, of threatening people, thus providing the individual an opportunity to flee or attack pre-emptively. In other words, processing this information subcortically — therefore subconsciously — before it is passed on to the rest of the brain for detailed processing accelerates judgment and decision making when a fast reaction is needed”
The fact that we see faces naturally makes us then make judgements about the car by the expression on the face and research shows people prefer powerful and menacing expressions full of intent not gormless ones.
Driller said:
RichB said:
As we're talking Astons, I think the lipstick on this one looks excellent! 
Disapproving/Frowning eyes-check (no smiling Frank Sidebottom eyes)Sneering/angry mouth-check (no tender guppying)
Result-looks brilliant, lipstick or not. It’s really not difficult
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