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  • Re: Pic Of Proposed Apple EV - How UGLY Can You Get ???

    From pothead@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Mar 12 00:53:15 2024
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    On 2024-03-12, 67hx.1803 <[email protected]> wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13183579/Apple-Car-renders-futuristic-looking-van-private-jet-interior.html

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/11/18/82325777-13183579-image-a-50_1710181425918.jpg

    . . .

    Ok ... YUK !!! Did Apple pick up one of Tesla's
    disemployed cyber-truck design interns or something ???

    Sorry, NO fixing that !

    What'd it be worth as scrap ? I'll offer half
    of that .....

    That car may very well be the most ugly car ever manufactured in modern times. It tops the Pontiac Aztek which is one ugly car as well.

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  • From 67hx.1803@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 11 20:38:01 2024
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13183579/Apple-Car-renders-futuristic-looking-van-private-jet-interior.html

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/11/18/82325777-13183579-image-a-50_1710181425918.jpg

    . . .

    Ok ... YUK !!! Did Apple pick up one of Tesla's
    disemployed cyber-truck design interns or something ???

    Sorry, NO fixing that !

    What'd it be worth as scrap ? I'll offer half
    of that .....

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  • From 67hx.1803@21:1/5 to pothead on Mon Mar 11 22:39:45 2024
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    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    On 3/11/24 8:53 PM, pothead wrote:
    On 2024-03-12, 67hx.1803 <[email protected]> wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13183579/Apple-Car-renders-futuristic-looking-van-private-jet-interior.html

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/11/18/82325777-13183579-image-a-50_1710181425918.jpg

    . . .

    Ok ... YUK !!! Did Apple pick up one of Tesla's
    disemployed cyber-truck design interns or something ???

    Sorry, NO fixing that !

    What'd it be worth as scrap ? I'll offer half
    of that .....

    That car may very well be the most ugly car ever manufactured in modern times.
    It tops the Pontiac Aztek which is one ugly car as well.


    The Aztek at least LOOKS like a car ... not a terribly
    attractive car, but still ....

    There have been some UGLY cars over the years - mostly
    as a result of letting dope-smoking 'designers' run
    amok with their "concepts". Not sure HOW anyone convinced
    Ford that the Edsel looked "prestigious". More like a
    scrap-yard creation with a toilet-seat on the front.

    Anyway, that WAS the end of the "big-fin cars" - the
    "flat-box + roof" dominated much of the 60s.

    Some cars are ugly for a good reason - consider the
    Citroen 2CV models with the flat sides, sort of a
    VW Bug that had tried to go down a narrow alleyway.
    Extreme low cost was the goal, and that's what
    50s tech could deliver. Now they're "classics"
    and worth big $$$.

    It is interesting to look at automobile design over
    the decades. Took awhile before some grasp of what
    a self-powered vehicle SHOULD look like appeared ...
    all the early ones were based on long-known wagon and
    carriage aesthetics. Still like the Model-A Town
    Sedan look ... those "swoopy" 20s/early-30s designs were
    the Great Revelation in design. Ford really should build
    more - albeit with a modern drive-train. Some of the
    Duesenbergs and Packards were the cat's meow too. Saw
    a '29 REO Flying Cloud recently, also beautiful.
    Then, mid 30s/40s, they all kinda LOST it for awhile ...
    "bulbous" was the 'style' by and large.

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 12 06:57:42 2024
    XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.usa, alt.automobiles
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    On 3/11/24 10:39 PM, 67hx.1803 wrote:
    On 3/11/24 8:53 PM, pothead wrote:
    On 2024-03-12, 67hx.1803 <[email protected]> wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13183579/Apple-Car-renders-futuristic-looking-van-private-jet-interior.html

    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/11/18/82325777-13183579-image-a-50_1710181425918.jpg

    . . .

        Ok ... YUK !!! Did Apple pick up one of Tesla's
        disemployed cyber-truck design interns or something ???

        Sorry, NO fixing that !

        What'd it be worth as scrap ? I'll offer half
        of that .....

    That car may very well be the most ugly car ever manufactured in
    modern times.

    Nah. It has some Japanese elements to it.

    Besides, the fugliest modern vehicle clearly has to be the one where a
    manchild with way too much money tried to make a "macho" pickup truck
    with only straight lines ... and then wanted it to be out of
    'bulletproof' stainless steel.

    Its not going to age well at all, and that's before noting that the manufacturing defect rate is reportedly 80% .. even when not considering
    the panel gap & alignment flaws in the basic design because manchild
    doesn't understand tolerance stacking.


    It tops the Pontiac Aztek which is one ugly car as well.


      The Aztek at least LOOKS like a car ... not a terribly
      attractive car, but still ....

      There have been some UGLY cars over the years - mostly
      as a result of letting dope-smoking 'designers' run
      amok with their "concepts". Not sure HOW anyone convinced
      Ford that the Edsel looked "prestigious". More like a
      scrap-yard creation with a toilet-seat on the front.

      Anyway, that WAS the end of the "big-fin cars" - the
      "flat-box + roof" dominated much of the 60s.

      Some cars are ugly for a good reason - consider the
      Citroen 2CV models with the flat sides, sort of a
      VW Bug that had tried to go down a narrow alleyway.
      Extreme low cost was the goal, and that's what
      50s tech could deliver. Now they're "classics"
      and worth big $$$.

      It is interesting to look at automobile design over
      the decades. Took awhile before some grasp of what
      a self-powered vehicle SHOULD look like appeared ...
      all the early ones were based on long-known wagon and
      carriage aesthetics. Still like the Model-A Town
      Sedan look ... those "swoopy" 20s/early-30s designs were
      the Great Revelation in design. Ford really should build
      more - albeit with a modern drive-train. Some of the
      Duesenbergs and Packards were the cat's meow too. Saw
      a '29 REO Flying Cloud recently, also beautiful.
      Then, mid 30s/40s, they all kinda LOST it for awhile ...
      "bulbous" was the 'style' by and large.

    In looking at the concept Apple car, it does have VW microbus "vibes"
    while also being safely far enough away from that design to avoid any meaningful legal/trademark liability issues. Its also a lot less boxy
    than a lot of the Japanese "micro-cube" designs I've seen: their design language make them look like loafs of bread because they're trying to
    maximize volume while minimizing size, supposedly due to parking size
    issues in areas of Japan where a consumer needs to supposedly prove that
    they have off-street parking space before they're allowed to purchase.


    -hh

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