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that's because it's industry is mostly populated by little boys wanting to build those fantasy car drawings they did in school, everything looks like a transformer about to morph into a robot saving the planet except they are not saving anything.
The whole male ego design language for motorcars needs to change, more women need to be employed in the process so the industry can grow up and be more responsible, it's had over 100 years to do this so no excuses.
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Hard agree.
Everything looks like a snarling Predator straining to take a shit, especially the hyper-aggressive BMW/Merc/Audi hatchbacks with mutant M/AMG/S-line factory bodykits. It’s the primal, anthropomorphised expression of capitalism.
I’m especially irked by the trend of sticking giant gaping scoops on the sides of bumpers, like a cross between a Group B rally car and a teenage mutant ninja turtle, only to cover the actual ‘air intake’ folly with a solid unvented ‘grille’ to reduce the aerodynamic impact. This, on everything, including the most mundane shopping trolley motors and fucking builders vans.
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Fully agree.
Polestar seem to be the EV people trying hardest on this. It’s tough when vehicle design degrees are still male dominated but there are voices for change.
ectoplasmosis
Hefty
An Etron approaching from behind to overtake at ~30mph sounds the size of a Luton van. It’s mental, the road noise is so massive, unlike any other car, even a Range Rover size thing.
Would not want to be mowed down by one going 0-60 in 4.4 seconds. I hate to get too political but they’re a microcosm of all that’s wrong with the consumerist world reflected in the world’s most sophisticated consumer product. Vast inefficiency, style and posturing over and semblance of usefulness and actual purpose. An embarrassment to every engineer that worked on it. Never has the car industry stooped so low.