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the weird thing is that both the Multipla AND the Scorpio are both very good cars.Gilly said:Like. I thought the Scorpio was just another bland barge.
The Multipla however.
Eurgh, eurgh, eurgh
they just look like they were designed in the back of a taxi that's all.
Don't know if i can explain this fully but the door top / rear side window shape on a lot of modern 2door hatchbacks..
off the top of my head i know this feature is on the 2door focus, the corsa and the saxo, probably many others as well..
what i'm talking about is that because the top of the glass in the door is the same height as the glass in the side window behind it, you end up with a really ugly L shaped panel gap from the door frame going higher than the glass..
if anyone has a side on shot of a focus or a corsa they'll see what i mean i hope.
On the Citroen C2, the way they've sloped the waistline on the side windows and the doors up meaning that there's no clear waist line on the car
Citroen again, the C3 "Pluriel".. all of it.. it's ugly from every angle and totally pointless as a concept (imho) it does make me laugh however that Citroen are enthusiastically publicising that they've made a car that structural bits fall off of.. they've been trying to play that down for years
Jaguar, deciding to provide diesel engine options for any of their cars.. i'd argue that this is a style point because jaguars are supposed to be suave, sophisticated, lean and catlike.. no matter how good the diesel engine they're using is it's not a cat.. the only animal it seems like is a smoking beagle.
Ford Sierra, the whole car because it's new aerodynamic design is what killed off all creative thought in car design.
Honda Civic.. the gearstick coming out of the dashboard affair.. damn that's ugly.
Datsun.. sorry i mean Lexus... creating those godawful rear light clusters is strike one, seemingly being responsible for kickstarting the craze of gold plating the badges on your car is strike two.
Rover 75, bringing back imitation chrome door handles that stick out from the bodywork.. for crying out loud it's not the 1950's anymore.. that car could have been a sleek, well proportioned budget jaguar, Rover made it into a mock tudor mobile punchline.
Any and all manufacturers, using fake wood or metal trim on interiors.. if you want wood in there, go and buy some trees dammit..
Nissan, canning the r34 skyline and releasing the new one.. just plain ugly.
Vauxhall, binning the Manta in the late 80's then releasing the Calibra as a fwd car based on a cavalier
Vauxhall, restyling the Monaro to have those stupid nostrils, then canning the car as no-one wanted it.. muppets
off the top of my head i know this feature is on the 2door focus, the corsa and the saxo, probably many others as well..
what i'm talking about is that because the top of the glass in the door is the same height as the glass in the side window behind it, you end up with a really ugly L shaped panel gap from the door frame going higher than the glass..
if anyone has a side on shot of a focus or a corsa they'll see what i mean i hope.
On the Citroen C2, the way they've sloped the waistline on the side windows and the doors up meaning that there's no clear waist line on the car
Citroen again, the C3 "Pluriel".. all of it.. it's ugly from every angle and totally pointless as a concept (imho) it does make me laugh however that Citroen are enthusiastically publicising that they've made a car that structural bits fall off of.. they've been trying to play that down for years
Jaguar, deciding to provide diesel engine options for any of their cars.. i'd argue that this is a style point because jaguars are supposed to be suave, sophisticated, lean and catlike.. no matter how good the diesel engine they're using is it's not a cat.. the only animal it seems like is a smoking beagle.
Ford Sierra, the whole car because it's new aerodynamic design is what killed off all creative thought in car design.
Honda Civic.. the gearstick coming out of the dashboard affair.. damn that's ugly.
Datsun.. sorry i mean Lexus... creating those godawful rear light clusters is strike one, seemingly being responsible for kickstarting the craze of gold plating the badges on your car is strike two.
Rover 75, bringing back imitation chrome door handles that stick out from the bodywork.. for crying out loud it's not the 1950's anymore.. that car could have been a sleek, well proportioned budget jaguar, Rover made it into a mock tudor mobile punchline.
Any and all manufacturers, using fake wood or metal trim on interiors.. if you want wood in there, go and buy some trees dammit..
Nissan, canning the r34 skyline and releasing the new one.. just plain ugly.
Vauxhall, binning the Manta in the late 80's then releasing the Calibra as a fwd car based on a cavalier
Vauxhall, restyling the Monaro to have those stupid nostrils, then canning the car as no-one wanted it.. muppets
The retarded/glum/suicidal sadsack stupid looking headlights on the mk4 fiesta/Mazda 121, and the stupid transparent plastic grille that goes between them on some models. Yuk.
Also the boss eyed headlights on the alfa 166 (not sure which revision)... for the same reason as the fiesta, plus - did they shrink in the wash or something?
Also the boss eyed headlights on the alfa 166 (not sure which revision)... for the same reason as the fiesta, plus - did they shrink in the wash or something?
The cross eyed Morgan lights are a styling disaster no matter how much the aerodynamics benefit from them.
Fords obsession with 4 spokes (Mondeo and Fiesta)
The twin rectangular exhausts on the Proton Satira(?) Gti.
Mk 2 Xsara headlights
Mazda 323 factory fit body kits with the 'lovely' black rubber strips around each bit of the kit.
The Golfs HUGE VW badge on the tailgate.
Any factory fit reversing sensors that aren't colour coded to the bumper.
The huge black bumpers on the non colour coded Ka's
EDIT: Almost forgot the little individual round headlights on one of the 3 series coupe's (have no idea on all this E46 etc malarky)
Fords obsession with 4 spokes (Mondeo and Fiesta)
The twin rectangular exhausts on the Proton Satira(?) Gti.
Mk 2 Xsara headlights
Mazda 323 factory fit body kits with the 'lovely' black rubber strips around each bit of the kit.
The Golfs HUGE VW badge on the tailgate.
Any factory fit reversing sensors that aren't colour coded to the bumper.
The huge black bumpers on the non colour coded Ka's
EDIT: Almost forgot the little individual round headlights on one of the 3 series coupe's (have no idea on all this E46 etc malarky)
Probably get abused for this but nevermind...
Honda fitting those minging round headlights to the UK DC2 ITR. WHY?! The JDM blatantly looks so much better!
Think you mean the ocuk favourite, the 3 series compact there
Honda fitting those minging round headlights to the UK DC2 ITR. WHY?! The JDM blatantly looks so much better!
lordrobs said:
Think you mean the ocuk favourite, the 3 series compact there
Yup those are the ones, thought some of the coupes had them too but a quick google shows I'm wrongTripleT said:Probably get abused for this but nevermind...
Honda fitting those minging round headlights to the UK DC2 ITR. WHY?! The JDM blatantly looks so much better!
Think you mean the ocuk favourite, the 3 series compact there
Nitpicking here, but Datsun changed their trading name to Nissan, Lexus is the "luxury" spinoff of Toyota, the two are not related at all.karoshi said:
Agreed on the UK DC2 ITR, round lights
Focus ST reverse/fog lights - what were they thinking!?
Mic said:
That's only because Jap cars don't have foglights as standard and UK importers are lazy. The proper way to do it would be to fit the UK spec rear lights (or convert the Jap ones), not just fit a £2.99 Halfords fog light.
The old Focus- Not the whole car just the stupid placement for the reversing light. I meant right at the bottom on the bumper isn't the best place for it.
Big cars which only have one reversing light.
Cars that have indicators (rear and front) on the inside of the other lights. (this is especially annoying at night when you can't see the damn think with the headlights on).
Cup holders!!!! I dopn't need friggin 18 of them (Made up figure I know but some cars have a ridiculous amount of cup holders )
Big cars which only have one reversing light.
Cars that have indicators (rear and front) on the inside of the other lights. (this is especially annoying at night when you can't see the damn think with the headlights on).
Cup holders!!!! I dopn't need friggin 18 of them (Made up figure I know but some cars have a ridiculous amount of cup holders
)YepMic said:
My UKDM Prelude has a horrible fog light, they (Honda) cut a huge hole into the bumper and stuck a mahoosive thing in there:
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So, I filled it in when I did my body kit, and relocated the fog-light into the offside reversing light (unfortunately losing one of those, but it's a price worth paying IMO!)
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