cerberus wrote on Wed, 18 February 2009 01:09 |
this apparently official photo was released today as part of big three beg-out hearings.
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...which demonstrates their sense of apalling timing. I wouldn't do anything so silly as to release a photo of such a complete dog's breakfast of a design if I was so short of money.
Bold, it may be. -But it's also excessively polarizing. -People tend to love it or hate it, with very few people feeling impartial either way.
I personally feel that It's perhaps one of the worst looking vehicles since... well since almost any of the recent GM offerings, actually.
The 2000 GM monte Carlo, for example: -At what point did somebody say
"There; -That looks attractive!"? -And was he wearing dark glasses, carrying a white stick and being shepherded along by a golden retriever at the time?
It has unneccessarily vast slab-sided expanses of sheet metal at the rear-end which they tried to minimize by:
a) raising the upper edge of the wheel arch to a simply preposterous degree.
b) adding a "bridge-to-nowhere" crease-line (which -I know- is supposed to 'echo' the elegant, sweeping tail haunches from Monte Carlo's of old... but it fails. Miserably.)
Words fail me when it comes to GM's various styling departments' ineptitude.
In fact Every single -no exceptions- Cadillac product since about 2001 has looked simply appalling to me. Angular and ridge-lined for the arbitrary sake of it.
They've heard about "brand identity" and "badge-specific features" etc. and they've taken these business-school-geek terms and have utterly and completely lost sight of the fact that a simple 'whole' concept; -One which looks "right" and speaks "to the heart" -instead of hitting all the key spots on some arbitrary, theoretical checklist- will triumph. EVERY TIME.
The poor little sheep have lost their way.
Buick. -What the HELL are they thinking? Cars which used to sell reliably to old people are now reduced to three models. -And one of those is an 'aspirational' semi-SUV crossover design which old people aren't buying because it looks too "wierd", and young people are scared to buy, because "...it's a Buick... isn't that an OLD MAN's car???".
Pontiac Aztek. -Are you shtting me?
You could have a thousand free swings with a sledgehammer, and I guarantee that not one blow would do ANYTHING except make it more attractive.
Best looking GM recently? -Probably the GTO. -Except that was designed and styled in Australia by Holden.
Will someone PLEASE take the crayons away from the buffoons in the styling department? -The Europeans are starting to worry about global Ugly.
Keith