Good Styling

Replying to: mattandi (Oct 03, 2008 7:00 am)

BMW X6 - just a bizarre looking buggy. I would buy one in a New York minute if I was looking for a slightly outside the norm premium sporty crossover and had $60k or so burning a whole in my pocket.
 
I saw a couple of 'em parked at the BMW Oktoberfest last week, they looked like a couple of blimps. There is no excuse for a four-seat automobile being that large,
especially nowadays, what are they thinking at BMW?.
 
Mercedes R class - did MB really make a minivan, or is it an oversized CR-V
 
Actually IIRC the CR-V came second, I can't imagine why Honda would copy that roofline. Amazingly enough, they CR-V seems more popular than ever.

Replying to: andre1969 (Oct 03, 2008 4:31 am)

People Love Angry-Faced Cars
 
If a Toyota Prius just looks too friendly for your tastes, you're not alone. People readily see faces and traits in cars, and a new study suggests that they prefer cars to appear dominant, masculine and angry.
 
Apparently they studies 38 car models - no SUVs because it would have "skewed the test results" - and with a sample group of 40 participants, cars like the 5-series came out on top because of their "power" characteristics.
 
Just one more step on the road to all cars being styled by computers? I hope not.
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081006/sc_livescience/peopleloveangryfaced- - cars

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Replying to: nippononly (Oct 06, 2008 11:17 am)

and with a sample group of 40 participants, cars like the 5-series came out on top because of their "power" characteristics.
 
Well maybe there's something to be said for that...Dame Edna and the Church Lady can be kinda scary...

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Replying to: fintail (Oct 06, 2008 1:17 pm)

I guess I'm even more disappointed in the 5er than the 7 - I'd never get a 7, but the 5 was on my list. I still haven't gotten used to the look. Prior versions just had a very 'honest' and clean design, don't know how better to put it. Not the current version. , or I guess I should say

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Replying to: texases (Oct 06, 2008 1:29 pm)

The previous 5er was such a clean and homogenous design - almost good enough to be an old MB ...I have never adapted to the current version either. The 7er is just weird, where the old one was clean too.
 
I don't think either of them look "angry" per se, I don't see the glaring narrowed headlights as such an obvious styling ploy on BMW as I do on some others.
 
And on the styling note, am I alone in thinking the Chevy Traverse looks better than its blinged up siblings?

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Replying to: fintail (Oct 06, 2008 1:17 pm)

I prefer "cute" to "angry". Maybe they got a group of angry people in their study!
 
I prefer clean and well-proportioned to either cute or angry. And in general I don't focus on the looks of a car much at all. The specs and the way it drives are more important to me than the looks.

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