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80s cars were damn ugly, even during the 80s. I breathed a sigh of relief when they finally started adding curves again.
by kstenerud 11y ago
80s cars were damn ugly, even during the 80s. I breathed a sigh of relief when they finally started adding curves again.
- busterarm 11y agoI disagree. The 70s/80s wedge is still my favorite car shape. Hatchback Louvers were grand and those 5-mph bumpers look great on some cars (VW, Volvo...) Those garish econonoboxes are for-sure terrible though. The Dodge Omni has the honor of being one of the ugliest cars ever made. Which also makes the fact that Shelby turned it into one of the most awesome machines ever on the road (Omni '86 GLHS) that much more satisfying. That said, rally was much more fun when it was with ugly boxy cars and Group B.
- amorphid 11y agoI love 80s Hondas. Especially the late 80s Civic Hatchback.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoMost things in the 80s were ugly. I mean people wore costumes for clothes for crying out loud. I have pictures my wife will never see because of the embarrassing things I wore.
- Slothrop99 11y agoGeneral Motors, which dominated the market and always set the styling trends, stuck with the same box styling for too long. The "sheer look" was introduced with the 1976 Cadillac Seville and they were still using it until the late 1980s. So the Ford aero look was very fresh in comparison.
- aswanson 11y agoThe 80s were perhaps the worst decade on record from both an aesthetic and musical standpoint. Seriously, pop culture sensibilities reigned. Over-synthesized corporate pop music, neon-light bright clothes, box shaped cars. The only thing cool about the 80s was that I was a kid and had no bills. And much better cartoons and imagination/cynicism ratio.
- meddlepal 11y agoI dunno man... New Wave was pretty awesome.
- aswanson 11y agoMaybe. Maybe its the cheesy over-acting of the words in the low-budget videos of those days that drive me crazy...something about that decade strikes me as decidedly fake looking back on it. But hell, Im a grown man now. Things about the 90s and 2000s seem just as phony as well.
- vacri 11y agomusic videos were in their infancy in the '80s. They were still figuring out the ropes. Synthesisers were also a new instrument, and people were toying around with them. If corporate-backed music is your problem, you need to look two decades later, when the formula was perfected and in heavy use. And if 'artificial' music is your bugbear, you must hate sampling :)
- aswanson 11y agoI dont hate sampling. Nowhere near it. In fact, sampling brought back the raw early 70s/late60s sounds I love. Compare the early grittiness of a Public Enemy song from 1987 against a Cyndi Lauper or other neon-habadashery hair-metal corporate concoction from that decade. You can't. One was rawness and grit, the other a manufactured POS.
- aswanson 11y agoAlso, synths were around from the early 70s. Look up Bob Moog or ARP. The 80s marked the over-abuse and reliance on the instrument. Hollow sound for a hollow, soulless decade.
- vacri 11y agoYes, they were, but they hadn't really hit the public experimentation stage at that point. Guitars were around for centuries before guitar music really took off (and instruments similar to guitars go back millenia). I have the opposite view of sampling - I find it feels heavily artificial and manufactured (not always corporate, but still manufactured), and it doesn't really feel like you can 'hear' the musician's mood. Just a matter of taste, though. I just think you're giving the 80s a bit of rough stick - that corporate management increased through the 90s and 00s, and was around before the 80s, too - see the infamous 'wall of sound' methodology :)
- WalterBright 11y agoCars became ugly in 1973 and never recovered. The only good ones are the ones with a retro 60's look.
- joshuapants 11y agoI think the W123 platform Mercedes Benz vehicles are the best looking cars they've ever made.