QOTD: Who's Got The Look?

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All new family cars look the same nowadays, am I right? The Camcord and the Sonatoptima and the, um, Altusionbupassant. Never before have we had such identical cars in the mass market. Compare this to, say, 1963. It was so easy to tell the Ford from the Chevy back then, assuming you worked for a Chevy dealership or owned the Ford. Or 1956, when, uh, the tailfins were way different. Or 1984, when the Camry and Stanza literally had different numbers of headlights. Let’s not forget 1936. Does anybody even have the ability to distinguish a ’36 Ford from a ’36 Chevy any morer?



You get what I’m saying, right? Ever since somebody made the second car to compete with the first one, there’s been a certain sameness among the mass market offerings. But that doesn’t mean that all the animals are created equal. Somebody out there makes the best-looking midsizer. Is it the Camry, with its sharp creases and avian front end? The Accord, with its dramatic side creases and taillights that mimic the far more upscale rear end of the Genesis Sedan? Perhaps it’s the Galant, with its, um, grille.

Regardless, now’s your chance to show some venom on the vellum, so to speak. For what it’s worth, my robotic vote is for the Optima. It literally looks more like an Audi than an Audi.

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  • Ryoku75 Ryoku75 on Mar 15, 2014

    I beg to differ on cars of the 60's-80's as far as "sameness", yes a number of them did look similar but due to their basic styling it was easy to tell one apart from another, with the differing details being fairly obvious (though most Japanese cars stood out like Chameleons). Todays cars are much more stylized, so not only is it more difficult to find just one detail thats different but also it just looks lazier with every car using the same grille\Spider-Man headlight shape. Yes older cars typically had circle or square headlights, at least they were that way for practicality. It'd be nice if we could see a family car that doesn't in one way or another borrow from the Citroen DS.

  • Jdmcomp Jdmcomp on Mar 15, 2014

    Which is why I am keeping my 2003 Jaguar S Type. Love it or not nothing looks like it (except the older Jag it was styled after).

  • Kuponoodles Kuponoodles on Mar 15, 2014

    Mazda RX-8 is pretty... I wonder what would've happened if they put a V6 in there and called it something else. Pontiac G8. Yes. the boxiness of it made it a standout from all the current teardrops Infiniti FX-35. dated? a little, but I think Porsche just took the shape and added it's own headlights. When it came out, people bought it just for looks. Tesla S. It reminds me of the golden age of cell phones, before smartphones... when companies were trying to make them as curved but as straight at the same time. Z32 Nissan 300zx. the design is 25 years old.

  • Ponchoman49 Ponchoman49 on Mar 17, 2014

    My favorite looking sedan is the 2014 Impala LTZ with it's std 19" alloys. In red jewel or ice blue it got more compliments on the show room floor than anything we looked at all week and stands out from the plain dull blandness that typifies the rest.

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    • Mikey Mikey on Mar 17, 2014

      Poncho........obviously your a man of taste. The Impalas looks are growing on me. I was , and still am, a big fan of the previous generation.. However the 14 is one very nice car.

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