I cannot work out American car design; it has always produced distinctive cars but you have to be blind to the absolute stinkers that get produced along with the classics. There are some cars that just do not look right. The American Ford Focus is such a car. (more)
cam : More proof:
People bought it. Autoblog commented:
heh. Someone penned this design, and people agreed that it looked ok, and then with that design much money was spent to bring it to market. Including moulds and dies. How many people hated their jobs with this car?
People bought it. Autoblog commented:
heh. Someone penned this design, and people agreed that it looked ok, and then with that design much money was spent to bring it to market. Including moulds and dies. How many people hated their jobs with this car?avocadia : The thing I noticed when I was over there wasn't so much ugly as boring. We had two or three Chevrolet Impalas - I can't actually remember what we were driving around LA - and it is just a boring looking car. And it had to be boring for me to notice despite my twin handicaps of having a tin eye for design in general and so not being a car person at all.
cam : I was talking to someone about why American cars tend to be black/white/silver/cream. Apparently having a fashionable colour can date a car too quickly and destroy its resale value. So the chartreuse colours you see on Holdens won't be on the Pontiacs they are importing. It is a wierd sort of commercial conservatism. I guess it is just the companies responding to the markets; Honda/Toyota/etc have equally boring colour choices.
