Is it just me or does mordern car designs just doesn't have that spark anymore. - Page 8

Bogbrush82 · 13th May 2018, 10:40

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Originally Posted by lord rover

i thought this was still the worlds ugliest car contender.

Guess that you motor is creeping up on this fiat disaster. :d

Kill it! Kill it with fire!!!!

oxfordblue75 · 13th May 2018, 10:43

Gorgeous car

Number 6 · 13th May 2018, 10:52

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Originally Posted by Lord Rover

You know what I mean, when ever you saw a car in the early 2000's 90's 80's 70's 60's you name it.

When you saw those beauty's for the first time you knew you wanted one and have a go in one yourself, back then cars were built too win your hearts over if its interior, exterior or performance in mind depending what certain things you like in car they had it covered.

Been Driving in work all day today and just looking at every motor going by, these modern motors look almost the same and doesn't appeal too me in the slightest.

When you see a classic go past Holly beep do you notice them, they had more class in everyway I think that's way I prefer them.

Or 75's and ZT's are modern too, But it has a very distinctive look about them which is eye catching and very appealing too the eye.

Mabey it is just me Guess I'm stuck in the past and can't really move forward, but can you blame considering all the nice cars we've had during the prime of the 90's and early 2000.

This is what I mean here's a few cars that I personally believe were the true eye catchers during there prime, There's many more but these for me stand right out.

Forgot too add the lexus ls 400

https://youtu.be/EsCyC1dZiN8?t=6

sworks · 13th May 2018, 13:19

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Originally Posted by Lord Rover

I thought this was still the worlds ugliest car contender.

Guess that you motor is creeping up on this Fiat disaster.

And yet it won the car of the year award, incidentally Fiat have won it more than any other manufacturer if I remember correctly

Lordy · 13th May 2018, 15:20

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Originally Posted by sworks

And yet it won the car of the year award, incidentally Fiat have won it more than any other manufacturer if I remember correctly

You serious this thing won car of the year award.

I had too look it up to see if you were joking, You weren't either.

www.motormum.com/Fiat-Multipla.php

Lordy · 13th May 2018, 17:52

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Originally Posted by oxfordblue75

Gorgeous car

Jaguar XJ8.

My dad had a British racing green Jaguar XJ sport 3.2 V8.

Lovely car that was and had plenty of poke too, hit the spots button the gearshift and which it fly.

hrissim · 13th May 2018, 18:46

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Originally Posted by Lord Rover

Jaguar XJ8.

My dad had a British racing green Jaguar XJ sport 3.2 V8.

Lovely car that was and had plenty of poke too, hit the spots button the gearshift and which it fly.

Recently I had a chance to touch this gorgeous piece of auto-build art /V8, sandstone leather, automat/:

Comfortably Numb · 13th May 2018, 23:51

Nowadays, car manufacturers spend so much time and effort to make sure their cars will get through the warranty period without expensive breakdown by stuffing them with sensors to put them into limp mode if anything goes outside the set parameters by a fraction, that they forget to use discretion in the design studio, and because, with computerised engineering,- if you can computer draft it, you can computer make it, hence the over-sculpted shapes of fat, ugly nightmares like the Nissan Juke/Qashqai, and so many other "cross-over" vehicles, - so called because if you see one parked on your side of the road, you cross over to avoid it. Computer design and engineering has allowed us to design things and get them into production far more quickly than ever before, so the buying public has been persuaded that new is different is better. Designs don't seem to evolve, so the good gets changed as much as the bad, new models often seem to have gained several new problems in eliminating 1 or 2 old ones. Undoubtedly, cars are more reliable, better made and better equipped than they used to be. But so many are flawed by both poor aesthetics and engineering design and over- complex and delicate electronics, that you would be insane to buy one out of warranty! Our cars may have their engineering faults, but at least they are great to look at and drive - which, for me, are the most important factors.

75 tinkerer · 13th May 2018, 23:54

If designers have the same goals or requirements then they will tend to look the same. To quote a mate of mine, they all look like bars of soap.

Lordy · 14th May 2018, 12:40

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Originally Posted by hrissim

Recently I had a chance to touch this gorgeous piece of auto-build art /V8, sandstone leather, automat/:

Now that's a beauty.

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Comfortably Numb Posted a thing or two Rover 75 Saloon Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Penrith Posts: 1,336 Thanks: 165 Thanked 303 Times in 241 Posts	Nowadays, car manufacturers spend so much time and effort to make sure their cars will get through the warranty period without expensive breakdown by stuffing them with sensors to put them into limp mode if anything goes outside the set parameters by a fraction, that they forget to use discretion in the design studio, and because, with computerised engineering,- if you can computer draft it, you can computer make it, hence the over-sculpted shapes of fat, ugly nightmares like the Nissan Juke/Qashqai, and so many other "cross-over" vehicles, - so called because if you see one parked on your side of the road, you cross over to avoid it. Computer design and engineering has allowed us to design things and get them into production far more quickly than ever before, so the buying public has been persuaded that new is different is better. Designs don't seem to evolve, so the good gets changed as much as the bad, new models often seem to have gained several new problems in eliminating 1 or 2 old ones. Undoubtedly, cars are more reliable, better made and better equipped than they used to be. But so many are flawed by both poor aesthetics and engineering design and over- complex and delicate electronics, that you would be insane to buy one out of warranty! Our cars may have their engineering faults, but at least they are great to look at and drive - which, for me, are the most important factors.

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75 tinkerer Regular poster Rover 75 Tourer Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Darlington Posts: 95 Thanks: 12 Thanked 10 Times in 9 Posts	If designers have the same goals or requirements then they will tend to look the same. To quote a mate of mine, they all look like bars of soap.