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Post by racingteatray on Jan 25, 2018 13:32:27 GMT
What is this new trend for blingy grilles?
I particularly dislike the perforated sheet grille treatment Mercedes saw fit to inflict on eg the C43 models. And this BMW take looks equally tacky:
www.carmagazine.co.uk/spy-shots/bmw/new-bmw-z4-roadster-2019-photos-specs-pictures-price-and-news/
When did people start overdesigning things. I wish they would stop and go back to producing cars that are simple and look good because of their innate rightness of form and line, rather than having to distract from their lumpeness with blingy tat masquerading as design details. |
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Post by michael on Jan 25, 2018 13:38:15 GMT
I was talking to a German journalist at the Detroit motorshow, I think it was 2006, who made this same complaint about Audi and their increasing reliance on chrome as a styling device rather than let the lines do the talking.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2018 16:14:46 GMT
I will wait until I see the full detailing to decide.
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 25, 2018 19:37:36 GMT
I’m with Racing here. One of my big issues with the new 5 series is the mega wide grille. The current 3 manages it much better with the slimmed down light unit at the abutment to the grille whereas the 5 looks ungainly compared to the previous one.
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Post by PG on Jan 26, 2018 12:54:04 GMT
...When did people start overdesigning things. I wish they would stop and go back to producing cars that are simple and look good because of their innate rightness of form and line, rather than having to distract from their lumpeness with blingy tat masquerading as design details.....
+1 Perfectly put. Less is more, as a concept, seems to be utterly lost on designers of cars and an awful lot of other stuff as well. And lost on the punters that lap it up (or seem to, unless maybe they are too young to remember a pre-bling, pre-chav, pre-tatt era? |
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Post by PG on Jan 26, 2018 12:54:46 GMT
I was talking to a German journalist at the Detroit motorshow, I think it was 2006, who made this same complaint about Audi and their increasing reliance on chrome as a styling device rather than let the lines do the talking. And based on the new RS4, their reliance too on other tacky design details as well. |
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Post by Tim on Jan 26, 2018 13:21:49 GMT
...When did people start overdesigning things. I wish they would stop and go back to producing cars that are simple and look good because of their innate rightness of form and line, rather than having to distract from their lumpeness with blingy tat masquerading as design details.....
+1 Perfectly put. Less is more, as a concept, seems to be utterly lost on designers of cars and an awful lot of other stuff as well. And lost on the punters that lap it up (or seem to, unless maybe they are too young to remember a pre-bling, pre-chav, pre-tatt era? Haven't the manufacturers been blaming the Chinese market for the past 5 years or so?
I don't think you can blame the young(ish) either as, for example, Merc seem to be one of the worst offenders yet their longer established models still find buyers in the traditional Merc customer age range.
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