Comments on: What’s Wrong With This Picture?: Midsize Mainstream Meshuga Edition

By: TZ

TZ — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:37:10 +0000

Criticism of design sketches is always so amusing.

By: philerup

philerup — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:10:51 +0000

So, what’s the difference? Now it has B-pillars and flat tires, big deal.

By: hal

hal — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:15:26 +0000

@autonut – VW never sucked on quality. reliability and dealer service are what they have needed to work on.

By: autonut

autonut — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:13:47 +0000

IMO, it looks like crap on wheels. When VW will understand (if ever) that it is not in the looks department their cars are sucking. It’s quality, stupid.

By: th009

th009 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:29:53 +0000

The main things that I would expect to see in a production model would be the front end design and the shape of the greenhouse.

Gangster-style slit windows are not really part of the VW design language, so I wouldn’t expect to see them on the new Passat, either, regardless of the sketches.

By: jmo

jmo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:22:41 +0000

American mainstream midsize sedan

How stunning do you expect a mainstream midsize sedan to be?

By: Edward Niedermeyer

Edward Niedermeyer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:28:51 +0000

Steven02: Exactly. It’s VW’s concept of an American mainstream midsize sedan. Japanese bland meets domestic bunker design. As stimulating as a handful of Ambien. Yawn.

Now imagine the production model.

By: Steven02

Steven02 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:10:39 +0000

It is just a concept. Not likely to build a sedan like that.

By: Chicago Dude

Chicago Dude — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:24:24 +0000

If that’s a midsize sedan, then nobody taller than 5 feet will fit in an upright seat inside of it.

By: chuckR

chuckR — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:50:55 +0000

Can’t someone do a retro-homage to the greenhouse of the 635CSi? Big bulbous hoods, tall doors, gun slit windows – I’d feel like a little kid in many cars today.

By: jimble

jimble — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:27:42 +0000

The C-pillar looks oddly like an Impala. That can’t be what they were going for.

By: SpikedLemon

SpikedLemon — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:20:49 +0000

Worst thing about it: it’s no hatch.

Next worst thing: it looks like a Camaro+Challenger offspring with a VW badge.

By: Stingray

Stingray — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:19:38 +0000

Looks a lot like the current Accord to me.

By: grog

grog — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:04:32 +0000

Looks like a 4 door Camaro.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:32:54 +0000

carve :
October 28th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

The bottom 1/4 of the wheels are completely flat! While it looks good standing still, it’d make for a very bumpy ride once you start driving- espeically since no tires will fit and your just left with a little rubber painted on the wheels.

That was the first thing I noticed too. If you want to put huge wheels on something, feel free to actually draw the whole wheel in there so you can fully see how stupid it looks and how far off the ground you would be.

By: CyCarConsulting

CyCarConsulting — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:28:15 +0000

Must be the Meshuga Mieskeit LX

By: carve

carve — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:24:40 +0000

By: Jimal

Jimal — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:22:47 +0000

I’m a VW fan, but to me the bottom picture looks like a Volt, a Camaro and an original Lexus LS400 had a menage-a-designer. And the gun-slit windows are the “cab forward” of the late 2000’s.

By: Porsche986

Porsche986 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:22:18 +0000

When will manufacturers understand that it is SO unsafe to drive a car with so little visibility? Style over function… while everyone loves a beautiful low slung sports car with little or no visibility, why on earth would you want one in a family sedan?

By: jthorner

jthorner — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:18:32 +0000

Lots of modern Honda and Volvo design cues in there.

By: jmo

jmo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:17:25 +0000

Me likey very much. Turns out the suspension on my GTI is just too firm and sporty. I must be getting old. When the time comes it might be the one. That or a CC… or a A5…