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It is not clear to me why they need to make them so ugly: Citroën is pretty good with design, and then they try to sell these. It is almost as if they don't wan
by gregoriol 6y ago
It is not clear to me why they need to make them so ugly: Citroën is pretty good with design, and then they try to sell these. It is almost as if they don't want people to buy them.
- globular-toast 6y agoBrand loyalty is a huge thing with cars. It's actually really bizarre to see it. Some people won't even consider another brand of car for any reason. So these are to hook people on to the brand but make sure they want the more expensive models.
- orthoxerox 6y agoThe boxy shape is to minimize parking space. The weird design is to cut down on costs: as mentioned in the article, the doors are identical, the front and back panels are as well. A sleek carlet wouldn't have cost 6000€.
- jaclaz 6y agoYep, they don't need to be "ugly". But I don't think there is much to do with design, I guess all shapes have been already designed for these cars, and they all invariably end up being a sort of caricature of a "real size" car, more or less the inside needs to be big enough to house the driver and passenger (that do not and cannot shrink) whilst the outside is reduced in size as much as possible leading to things that are "stubby". The only two exceptions I know are (like it or hate it) the already mentioned Renault Twizy that has a somewhat unconventional design and the Microlino which is a sort of (good ol') Isetta replica: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20745339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20745339 https://microlino-car.com/en/microlino https://microlino-car.com/en/microlino
- GoToRO 6y agoBecause they don’t. They still have petrol cars to sell and no real plans for electric full cars. The only companies that make nice electric cars are those that only sell electric cars.