Good Styling

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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• fintail (Oct 06, 2008 4:02 pm)
• andre1969 (Oct 07, 2008 4:30 am)
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• andys120 (Oct 07, 2008 4:53 am)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Oct 07, 2008 4:30 am)

I think a lot of old musclecars and such could look "tough", without having to resort to "angry".
 
I agree, the best looking of the musclecars were subtle in their styling. You had to look closely to tell that you weren't looking at a garden variety LeMans or Malibu.
 
'64 Pontiac LeMans>

 
'64 Pontiac GTO>

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• andre1969 (Oct 07, 2008 5:03 am)

Replying to: andys120 (Oct 07, 2008 4:53 am)

I think in the case of the '64 Pontiacs, even the Tempest has a tough look about it, so that was a good basis for the GTO. In '65 though, I thought the whole package just looked too "pretty" to be tough. But for '66-67 they were able to balance it out to be "tough" yet "pretty", if that makes sense.

Porsche AG has released the first official photos of the controversial Panamera 4-door sport sedan, thankfully they look a lot better than the hideous spy-shots and sketches that have been floating around the web for months>
 

 
I'll reserve judgment til I see one but it sure looks better than the Cayenne.

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• andre1969 (Nov 24, 2008 7:54 am)
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• texases (Nov 24, 2008 8:28 am)
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Replying to: andys120 (Nov 23, 2008 7:06 pm)

I think the car's actually reasonably attractive...but it's not what a Porsche should be, IMO. But I guess if Porsche can have an SUV, a sedan's not so bad. So when's the pickup truck version making its debut?

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• nippononly (Nov 24, 2008 12:25 pm)

Replying to: andys120 (Nov 23, 2008 7:06 pm)

From that angle it looks ok, but I don't like the profile towards the rear (edit: makes me think of what somebody would come up with when supplied with a 911, a sawzall, and instructions to 'make it a 4-door' :

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• fintail (Nov 24, 2008 12:26 pm)

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