Current ugly trends

[goingplacesanddoingstuff]

This grill is hideous!

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Fort Nine did a great video on the issues with truck styling these days. Literal feet of space occupied by air under the hood just to square off the grill.

 

[loneryder]

Admired this the other day at Tractor Supply

 

[Boomer]

Remember holes in the side to make you think exhaust was leaving the engine through those ports? Ridiculous.

 

[Kurtatron]

Single biggest offense to me is the slurry of greys, blacks, whites with a splotching of blue and reds. Bring back interesting car colors of the 70s

 

[PF52]

Single biggest offense to me is the slurry of greys, blacks, whites with a splotching of blue and reds. Bring back interesting car colors of the 70s

Such as Clark Griswold's "Metallic Pea" station wagon?

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Let's talk about some of today's ugly automotive styling trends. Over sized grills. Grills have gotten way to big on many of today's vehicles, to the point of being hideous looking. Black plastic body panels that go all the way around the bottom of the vehicle. Most, if not all modern SUVs have this and it looks ridiculous. It also turns powdery white over time and has to be treated with some sort of trim restore. Matte paint. To me this looks like primer. Paint should be glossy. And the final, and ugliest of them all...black rims. Regardless of wheel style, or the vehicle they're on, they always make the vehicle uglier. Rims should either be chrome or polished...

Volvo appears to have hired a tasteful designer for the S90. This car has quite the presence when seen on the highway.

 

[Pew]

I can't believe styling has changed over 70 years.

 

[D60]

This grill is hideous!

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I thought of exactly this when I saw the topic. I actually kinda like the look, but functionally visibility over the hood seems terrible?

I know no one's 'wheeling these, but coming from that background I always think about over-hood visibility

 

[SC Maintenance]

I like black trim black rims and flat paint.

Could do without the giant grill.

 

[Nyati]

You have to have big rims to fit 18” 6 piston ceramic brakes inside the wheel.

Add oversized rims.

 

[Wylie6G72]

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so just one man's opinion. Here are some of the things I see on the road today that I wouldn't describe as beautiful.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Oh, I long for the subtle styling of my youth, LOL!

 

[OVERKILL]

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so just one man's opinion. Here are some of the things I see on the road today that I wouldn't describe as beautiful.
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Yeah, I'm not sure who meth'd up the idea at Toyota for the "Predator" grille:

 

[Elkins45]

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so just one man's opinion. Here are some of the things I see on the road today that I wouldn't describe as beautiful.
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I call this Toyota and Lexus design the “baleen whale”

 

[64bawagon]

This grill is hideous!

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Not to mention a pain to clean. The thing will drip water for a week after a wash.

 

[Kira]

Add a matching, motorized grille behind the original (posts 31 + 34) and create a moiré effect.

 

[grampi]

I'm fairly certain you've started this exact same thread before, grumpi.

I think I've posted in similar thread, but I never started one before...

 

[Allaneddie]

Plymouth beat Lexus by decades.

"61 Plymouth

Late model Lexus:

 

[gfh77665]

Black plastic body panels that go all the way around the bottom of the vehicle. Most, if not all modern SUVs have this and it looks ridiculous. It also turns powdery white over time and has to be treated with some sort of trim restore. Matte paint. To me this looks like primer. Paint should be glossy.

I always speculated bottom plastic was done to prevent road salt from rusting lower panels out over time, but I don't really know. I have never lived in rust belt states, and only travel there in the summer. It is plausable?

 

[K-Man]

I always speculated bottom plastic was done to prevent road salt from rusting lower panels out over time, but I don't really know. I have never lived in rust belt states, and only travel there in the summer. It is plausable?

Panels over sheetmetal tend to trap moisture and salt against the metal, so they aggravate rust. When chrome panels on lower doors and fenders were the norm in the 1980s, they caused the same rust problem.