Why are most cars so ugly? - Page 2

Fuuma, despite being annoying and too obtuse to realize your own pretensions (oh, look at me, I look like an artist and I'm original), you are at most times not even remotely entertaining. If you're going to constantly belittle the mainstream (gosh, all cars are hideous in my cum glazed eyes), at least be funny, or extremely flamboyantly homosexual about it, like LabelKing.

Right. Despite all the suggestions as to socioeconomic stature thus far put forward, the simple fact that remains that nearly everyone considers the Aston Martin a beautiful car. Old people, teenage girls, homeless people, car enthusiasts, people who think cars are only for A-B, Prius drivers, even most on this forum. Would it not make sense for Honda to design a more beautiful car? Would it not increase sales? They have hundreds if not thousands of people working years on each car design. How much cost would it add to make the car beautiful? Is that cost somehow more expensive than the gain? Or is there simply a shortage of talented designers and they are all working for the high end firms that produce the few beautiful cars? This is plausible. The other interesting thing is that Acura goes to great length to showcase their new design center and prowess while turning out some of the most downright ugly cars, a mixture of parent brand blandness slapped with showy and garish chrome. They've showcased and named the young female designer of their new crossover. In "style," their marketing magazine, they devote a great amount of space to showing how attractive they think their cars to be. They have a feature on the TSX, showcasing it's "really great design." A quarter of the article about the TSX is spent about the "pure pleasure" of the body of the NSX, a now nineteen year old design! Really bizarre.

There isn't one, which is the point of the thread. Why can't Honda maximize space and function, while also making a beautiful car? Expand this to SUVs. While more controversial, the X5 M is a very attractive SUV. Compare to a Honda SUV. Yes, they are in different classes and price ranges, but why can't Honda make an SUV that looks as good as the X5 M? Why do they come out with the Crosstour, which looks like a misshapen turd? This isn't about function or interior space. Why does a huge company like Honda have to have a single "priority?" I argue there are as much resources in Honda's exterior design department as there are at Aston Martin's. Constraints of function, visibility, and interior space cannot account for the difference in aesthetics. Consider the outgoing BMW 550i Sport. Here's a car that has as much space and practicality as the Accord but is far more attractive. Again, why? Also, I don't buy the "Americans have bad taste because they are not as sophisticated as StyleForum posters" argument above. All these Americans would turn and stare at the A-M. Some would pretend to jack off. It would be a different matter entirely if they found the Honda attractive and the A-M ugly. This is not the case.