I’m sorry Europeans, but sitting on your vast catalog of drop dead gorgeous classic cars is a crime.
I mean, people remake them and sell them for a fortune why can’t they just massage the old bodies and put them over there.
Honest answer, it’s health and safety. Old designs aren’t necessarily pedestrian impact friendly, and some don’t leave a lot of options for crumple zones.
Being a car designer now, with all the limitations must be challenging/frustrating/suck
Edit: that’s no excuse for the basking shark looking Merc and the ridiculous attempt at two front teeth on the BMW
Old designs aren’t necessarily pedestrian impact friendly, and some don’t leave a lot of options for crumple zones.
Depends. 30 year old designs are probably more pedestrian-friendly than SUVs. The shapes were certainly better for that, and I assume they already invented crumple zones in 1995.
They can massage them to fit modern aerodynamic and pedestrian safety standards, though.
See the new Renault 4 and 5
Renault 4 and 5
Those look good!
It’d be awesome if they make a Renault 5 rally-inspired version, with a little more suspension travel.
Peugot should be next with the 205:
It’s like a perfect mix of small, practical, understated, until you squint and realize it’s fast too.
They did make a rally inspired version! Although I think it’s more racey than longer suspension.
That Peugeot would be brilliant. I want more hot hatch electric cars. Instead of all these fucking SUV mimics.
I see it! It’s low volume it seems, but still cool.
I wish Ford could get back in, if it weren’t for the tariffs and all. I know they made some noise about and Escort tribute, but they mind as well go full crazy and make a high volume RS200-looking EV:
Stubby, almost no space wasted over the front axel, but they could make it a proper hatchback without the engine bay. It’s perfect!
Ez: just mandate that pedestrians have crumple zones instead of cars
old American cars are so pretty tho
the white rims are the cherry on the cake
The merc would look okay with a black grille. Not stunning, but okay. I do like the mini merc logos in the lights.
The BMW just needs to start over.
I always think this about BMWs and then they somehow manage to grow on me. It’s like they’re released 2 years too early or something.
You know they do this on purpose, and you just showed exactly why it works. They make the design controversial so people talk and argue about it. They thank you for the free advertising.
That’s literally Jaguar’s business approach now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGlTULmheI
I’m not sure others are necessarily doing that on purpose yet, but you are not a conspiracist here, lol.
Jaguar had no choice. I was working for one of their suppliers until a couple of years ago and their sales figures were not good. Nobody was buying their saloon cars anymore, and their SUVs were selling well but were essentially eating into Land Rover’s market share, so they had to do something different. It is easier to sell low numbers of outrageously expensive cars than to mass produce cheaper ones so that’s what they’re gonna do.
That makes sense, but is weird to me, as their smallest sedan was really good. And cheap, compared to BMW and Mercedes! The others were too.
It feels like a reputation/trendiness problem. And that doesn’t exactly bode well for the outrageously expensive car market.
BMW has stated this is their plan. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2022/10/27/controversial-bmw-design-is-punking-you-and-wont-stop-ceo-says/
I assume anyone with one of those BMWs with the giant grilles is a psychopath.
Sure buddy, I’m sure someone’s gonna look a this lemmy post and jump straight to the dealership and buy the car just to spite me.
Also:
The point of advertising is to keep your brand in the public conversation. Whether that conversation is in favour of your brand or not is secondary at best. First and foremost you want people to know about your brand.
I bought two of whatever the fuck these things are, just to spite you.
The BMW is the upcoming BEV iX3. The first vehicle to be built on the Neue Klasse chassis. It’s a big leap forward in BEV tech over anything currently offered by BMW. Has 800 km range and 800V architecture.
“One of the most substantial updates to the 2026 Mercedes-Benz S-Class is the evolution of its SAE Level 3 autonomous driving system, Drive Pilot. Previously capped at 37 mph (60 km/h), Drive Pilot now operates at speeds of up to 59 mph (95 km/h) on highways—though only in Germany for now. Mercedes clarified that this increase is pending regulatory approval in the U.S., where the system remains limited to 37 mph. Read more > https://mercedes-world.com/s-class/mercedes-s-class-comes-with-major-autonomous-driving-update” https://mercedes-world.com/s-class/mercedes-s-class-comes-with-major-autonomous-driving-update#google_vignette
It’s horrific.
Douchemobiles
WTF? Cars used to be so elegant.
Ill just stay with the classics. No goofy cheeks, mustache, teeth, etc. Theres that argument that older cars are less safe but older cars didnt weigh as much as a cargo ship and you could still improve their safety design with a few tweeks. Literally everyone wants reworked classics, why dont car companies just make those?
It’s an oligarchy, so they just made what was easiest for them.
Now that there’s asian cars that are more popular and cheaper they go cry baby poor us give us subsidies.
Both look good imho.
They look like every other SUV on the market. These things are designed by committee and focus groups.
Right one’s got a hitler stache and very clenched ass cheeks
Looks like BMW decided to revert back to full Hitler.
