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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Still looks stupid.
Vehicles are increasingly becoming a commodity, and trying to differentiate brands by grill is a logical reaction by manufacturers.
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I agree. When molded door panels and molded dashboard covers were first introduced they incorporated faux stitching, as if they'd been sown together, 'old -school.'
I suspect that the marketing department's input during product development discussions will bring up the issue of not scaring customers off with too grand a styling gesture. Just slow, incremental change, as with GM's policy of the 1920s.
The sobriquets invented ever since by the press to describe efforts in style innovation probably resonate still, many decades after.
'beached-whale', 'worn bar of soap', 'pregnant', 'amorphous-blob', 'double-ended', ...............