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Originally Posted by Cd
I often wonder how a design like this one got accepted by the public.
This car certainly resembles a 'submarine' yet people bought it.
Sad that all that swoopy style was overdone, and the Cd actually stayed the same as the previous generation ( actually worse .32 vs .29 on a Sable ) All the angles were wrong for good aero on that car. |
And the Taurus died (in that generation) while the CamCords of the world lived on... and on... and on... and...
The previous comment on the Prius... spot on. people were lionizing the Civic hybrid and Accord hybrid when they came out... why? Because they were eco-misers that looked like "real cars."
Dodge's "cab-forward" designs met with stiff resistance when they first came out, too.
Slowly but surely, automotive fashion is forcing people to accept sleeker noses, taller tails and more fluid shapes... by disguising them with gaping, mawish grilles (which, laughingly, are almost completely blocked off), gigantic headlamps, split-level trunks and huge wheels and wheel-wells.