the new viper is just a viper.... fine the vipers a timeless clasic of a shape ..... only the new ones head lights aint as good as the old so the old looks far better .... degress !

Nissan IDx concept to rival the toyta gt86 is about the only nice bit of out side the box thinking iv seen in a while . oh and that new bmw

You can only do so much to a design that has been refined for the past century and a half. Just being able to keep the car for the next hundred years will be hard enough

True, especially when you are considering aerodynamics.

they try and attain similar looks accross ranges for brand familiarity and then retain old designs for legacy purposes... sometimes its tastefull.... then u think of porsche LoL

I think if we can make carbon fibre panels cheaper in the next 10 years we will see some interesting designs. A lot of it used to be manufacturing limitations but generally steel and aluminium has been mastered now so we can have all these sharp creases and shapes. If we move to more carbon fibre then it'll allow different things again

The new Beetle is awful, the bonnet is squared, it's completely lost it. But it has done so for a very common reason. Shared base, it's skin being stretched over a Golf, octavia, TT, Jetta, etc etc. The Lambo being an R8 in drag shows it's not just the High Street stuff. So much criteria, from passenger space to making cars cheap to repair for insurance reasons, cheap to build for all the technology they're forced to be equipped with these days.

All the basic experimenting that saw countless very different ways of building cars, all gone because the homework has been done. It doesn't make sense to put a straight four in the boot. So it's done no more. So cars are engineered all the same and marketing turns to fashion, using little things to set their cars apart.

Styling similarity has always had the same problem. 90s cars looked the same, for example. Take the 80s and look at the front of an '82 Escort, Astra, Jetta, Alfasud. They all influence eachother and tastes roll with fashion trends. My problem with today's cars is the kitchen appliance mentality. The car is no longer the star. We're not allowed to love our cars anymore. They're soulless and engineered to be. They don't want us to get attached to them. Or even own them - just twist'n'go.

Just face it, aerodynamic efficiency means that sooner or later all cars will look the same.

Its happening everywhere even the cheaper cars are all styled the same just look at the Opel Astra and the new Toyota Auris looks like the same car and the whole VW range looks like the same car just different sizes Audi also all look the same its shocking

its sad I have been looking to buy a new Car for a year now and can't find anything interesting I keep buying older cars because they have more character and style but spares are getting scarce especially small stuff like gear linkages lol I'm heavy on those lmao

Amazing how big new cars are getting on the sly .
They looks so small then you park up next to a old car he'll not even that old and u release your new micro mini car is as big as a old RAV 4

I know what you mean. My mother had a 1970 Oldsmobile Delta 88 that would shrimp most modern luxury cars.

They make sports cars now look less masculine unlike the designs b4.cars are now too and rounded .and soft for example a tough car such as a porche.after watch paul walkers accident it almost impossibe to identify.

Just shows how new time cars laps in design and and all.so I agree with that statement

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