Comments by "J Hutt" (@jhutt8002) on "Ed's Auto Reviews"
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Worst desing offense of modern cars is, that they're mostly fake desing:
1. Old cars had chromed bumpers, then they switched to rubber and eventually plastic, making it look like part of body, so car doesn't actually have a bumper. Then they started to add fake pieces that look like partial bumper.
2) Chrome, wood and leather in cabin and/or outside. First these went mostly away one after another, then they started to add fake plastic pieces that look like those materials. Modern car interior are infested with those hideous plastic bits faking chrome.
3) Vents. Cars used to have vents for various reasons. Japanese cars had small chrome grilles in C pillar, one hid a fuel gap, other air vent for the cabin. If you have vent in 21st car, 9/10 times it's plastic piece with no purpose whatsoever.
4) Headlights. There are absolutely no reason to make their such a ridiculously massive, with complicated and weird shapes. They often look like fungi creeping over the cars face.
So much of modern cars desing is cheap and fake, making the whole car feel fake and pretentious trinket.
I have 2008 Kia Sportage mk II. One of the finest things about it is, there isn't anything pointless, or unnecessary in it. It's sturdy and solid, and while being cheap, it doesn't feel like that because it doesn't have a hundreds of cheap plastic bits and doohickeys over everywhere. Unlike mk3 Sportage for instance.
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