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Making it look too much like a regular F-150 was a mistake. You need the vehicle to look distinctive enough for it to market itself.
by namlem 9mo ago
Making it look too much like a regular F-150 was a mistake. You need the vehicle to look distinctive enough for it to market itself.
- shusaku 9mo agoI guess that’s kind of the defense of Musk on the cyber truck. If Ford can’t sell hem off their F150 platform, it means you need to make more of a splash. He just went too far…
- bombcar 9mo agoI've seen an argument that the Prius was intentionally made "ugly/noticeable" because they knew the buyers would be interested in the technology AND want to be recognizable as such. When hybrids are common, the styling reverted to more normal car-like.
- mrguyorama 9mo agoThe first gen Prius just looked like an average car https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_(XW10) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_(XW10)
- 725686 9mo agoI would argue against that! If anything, I hated the firs hybrids that where distinctly different, and ugly.
- bombcar 9mo agoThere's an argument that they did that intentionally - some hated it, but more bought it because they wanted to be recognized as having bought a hybrid - hence the "Toyota Pius" nickname.