eurotrash said:
Who cares if a car has a V8 if it has the interior out of a 95 pontiac sunfire, those cars are a monument to how clueless GM is. Gawdy and brash on the outside and soviet and grey on the inside.
I'm not sure if you just have a thing against color codes, or if it's something deeper than that. It's not that they are clueless, as far as design, they're not really doing much wrong. I really don't think Civics, Corollas, and Integras look all that good, interior or exterior. They're nothing revolutionary, they're just... ordinary. Yet, they sell very very well.
Why is that? It's because American cars are unfairly bashed left and right, by other countries AND by our own. If Toyota has a recall because they explode, our media is like, "Toyota has a small problem which they are fixing." If GM, Ford, or Chrysler has a seat-belt recall, it turns into a class action lawsuit.
The desire to own American isn't there as much as it used to be. Cars sell more on reputation than on anything else, and with the crap that American car manufacturers take, it's no wonder.
Yeah, I do think some American cars are ugly. What the hell were they thinking with the PONTIAC AZTEK? Some cars stand out in my mind as beauitful, however the majority of them I find as ordinary and "every other car" as any average import.
If you want to get on somebody's case about styling.. talk to BMW or Porsche. Man, I think they are fine cars. I don't necessarily like all of the technology advancements BMW shoves into their cars, but damn, why does every car have to look almost exactly the same? It's ok to have a few styling cues for your brand, but every damn Porsche looks just like every other Porsche. Again, looks beautiful, but ridiculous as far as styling advancements go.
