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I'll applaud anything that tries to move us away from the current stale design trend where every car looks like the same boring bar of soap and every truck look

I'll applaud anything that tries to move us away from the current stale design trend where every car looks like the same boring bar of soap and every truck looks like the same aggressive, drivable, mechanized fist.

alistairSH 10mo ago
But anything in this case is a pedestrian-maiming, finger-slicing, dumpster on dubs. Not sure that's really a move in the right direction.
- rbanffy 10mo ago
  I like the fact the design is bold. I don't like the fact it's criminally unsafe. There are lots of interesting concept cars on every car show. Too bad companies choose to never make them.
  - iknowstuff 10mo ago
    It might be safer foe pedestrians than most trucks due to the significantly lower hood, despite the sharp edges. We don’t have statistics on that. But we know trucks are more deadly because instead of launching a struck person up and over the hood, they maim them underneath
kylehotchkiss 10mo ago
The bar of soap is aerodynamic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_coefficient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_coefficient
- jeffbee 10mo ago
  Right. All cars are converging on the shape of the Dodge Intrepid Hybrid. It is simply unavoidable. It is carcinisation, but for cars.
- echelon 10mo ago
  They're so ugly to me. Anything with that teardrop shape is immediately out of my purchasing decision matrix. I like boxy vehicles and sharp angles you could cut yourself on. The Toyota FJ Cruiser. The new Ford Bronco. The new Land Cruiser FJ. The original DeLorean DMC-12 speaks to me. The Ferrari F40. The Corvette C8. The Unimog. FMTV trucks. Nothing that looks like a dollop of sour cream or a tear drop breast implant is ever going to appeal to me. Aerodynamics be damned.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 10mo ago
    I love the look of Unimogs and FMTVs. I was seriously thinking about looking into finding a surplus FMTV until I realized just how loud and uncomfortable they probably are. Sure, that can be fixed, but I have enough projects.

alistairSH 10mo ago

But anything in this case is a pedestrian-maiming, finger-slicing, dumpster on dubs. Not sure that's really a move in the right direction.

rbanffy 10mo ago
I like the fact the design is bold. I don't like the fact it's criminally unsafe. There are lots of interesting concept cars on every car show. Too bad companies choose to never make them.
- iknowstuff 10mo ago
  It might be safer foe pedestrians than most trucks due to the significantly lower hood, despite the sharp edges. We don’t have statistics on that. But we know trucks are more deadly because instead of launching a struck person up and over the hood, they maim them underneath

kylehotchkiss 10mo ago

The bar of soap is aerodynamic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_coefficient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_coefficient

jeffbee 10mo ago
Right. All cars are converging on the shape of the Dodge Intrepid Hybrid. It is simply unavoidable. It is carcinisation, but for cars.
echelon 10mo ago
They're so ugly to me. Anything with that teardrop shape is immediately out of my purchasing decision matrix. I like boxy vehicles and sharp angles you could cut yourself on. The Toyota FJ Cruiser. The new Ford Bronco. The new Land Cruiser FJ. The original DeLorean DMC-12 speaks to me. The Ferrari F40. The Corvette C8. The Unimog. FMTV trucks. Nothing that looks like a dollop of sour cream or a tear drop breast implant is ever going to appeal to me. Aerodynamics be damned.
- HeyLaughingBoy 10mo ago
  I love the look of Unimogs and FMTVs. I was seriously thinking about looking into finding a surplus FMTV until I realized just how loud and uncomfortable they probably are. Sure, that can be fixed, but I have enough projects.