That's not a Vette

[David64]

I'm about to do a "old man shakes fist at cloud" thingy, so buckle up.

I just don't like modern car design. Remember when a Corvette was what the Apollo astronauts drove and they were cool ? When cars had curves and rocket fins on the back ? When the designers had some flare and imagination ? *sigh* Now everything looks like everything else. It's like all the designers and engineers got together and said "Let's just make a rubber stamp car and change a few things around depending on the make and model". You ever notice a Ford Fusion { Mondeo for the Brits } looks like an Aston Martin ? Seriously. You can look it up for yourself.

THIS is a Corvette




THIS is something that looks like Ferrari, Lamborghini and Pagani threw together. It's not a bad looking car, it's just not sexy. I don't want one. I don't even want to drive it. It doesn't have that oomph ! to it.

 


I'm sure it's fast. It'll probably push your eyes out the back of your head, but I just don't like it.

THIS is a Mustang



This is just something that's supposed to be a Mustang, but misses by a mile.







Yeah, they're faster. They're sleek, aerodynamic and have all the gadgets and gizmos.......but they ain't sexy.

[RazorV66]

I have a 2003 50th anniversary Corvette, Millennium Yellow in color.

It's somewhere in between those 2 body styles lol

I get what you are saying though, the older ones definitely look better.

[Tecate]

Not just the body style and gadgets… but where did the colours go?? Serious question.

Hunter or British Racing greens? Blues? Yellows?

Everything is some grey or charcoal or silver. Of course you have the usual white and black…

Ugly with a capital U.


Tecate

[rickymouse]

I'm about to do a "old man shakes fist at cloud" thingy, so buckle up.

I just don't like modern car design. Remember when a Corvette was what the Apollo astronauts drove and they were cool ? When cars had curves and rocket fins on the back ? When the designers had some flare and imagination ? *sigh* Now everything looks like everything else. It's like all the designers and engineers got together and said "Let's just make a rubber stamp car and change a few things around depending on the make and model". You ever notice a Ford Fusion { Mondeo for the Brits } looks like an Aston Martin ? Seriously. You can look it up for yourself.

THIS is a Corvette

[Image: https://i.imgur.com/4IeXRz1.jpeg]


THIS is something that looks like Ferrari, Lamborghini and Pagani threw together. It's not a bad looking car, it's just not sexy. I don't want one. I don't even want to drive it. It doesn't have that oomph ! to it.

[Image: https://i.imgur.com/XZUuRbF.jpeg] 


I'm sure it's fast. It'll probably push your eyes out the back of your head, but I just don't like it.

THIS is a Mustang

[Image: https://i.imgur.com/h42jMlU.jpeg]

This is just something that's supposed to be a Mustang, but misses by a mile.


[Image: https://i.imgur.com/v7xOFfx.jpeg]




Yeah, they're faster. They're sleek, aerodynamic and have all the gadgets and gizmos.......but they ain't sexy.

I used to have a sixty nine mustang special addition.  It originally had a 429 in it but the engine was out of it when I bought it, the guy blew the engine.  I bought it for fifty bucks in seventy five and stuck the 302 engine out of my seventy one comet that got totaled when someone hit it parked on the street.  It had the 302 cleveland block in it and could only take the manifold from a 289 hypo, the ports were bigger.  With the holley seven fifty double pumper and headers, nobody could beat me in short distances with my N50 fifteen slick tires on the back.  Could beat anyone but it maxed out at a hundred and five....the rear end did not match the transmission from the comet and the trany that was in the car when I got it was for the big block 429...not a 302.  I was able to fix the spedometer pretty close but the rear end ratio was way different.

I liked that car, it was a limited edition and in a year or so after they built the special edition they came out with the boss mustang same style. Needed air shocks to make up for the N50 15s, to keep the fenders from sitting on the tires. 

Got pulled over a lot with that car.  Wish I had that car with it's original engine, but what the hell, I had way over a hundred thousand dollars of fun with that special addition mustang.  And since it was not a Boss, my  insurance was way cheaper for a guy in his early twenties....like half the price. 

Got a sixty seven buick electra in my garage, and a 47 Dodge pickup in the yard...both run, but both need brakes.  The 47 dodge has both a starter and a crank spot.  But the engine is from a fifty three, I have the old 47 engine I got with it....it cost me fifty bucks for the truck and it is not in bad shape, but it needs to be double clutched to shift it.  I need to start working on the truck again to give to my grandson.  

I used to have a fifty seven chevy and a fifty five ford...although that was in seventy four, when I had my fifty nine international truck.  When I was young, I thought fifty five cars were old.....in seventy four...that is only nineteen years old....lots of cars are nineteen years old now, in fact my eighty seven chevy squarebody is almost forty and runs pretty good and only has thirty three thousand miles on it...although it subtracts miles when backing when plowing, in ten years I have only put two thousand miles on it...because all my plowing miles are erased with the way my driveway is.

[quintessentone]

They were phallic-shaped back in the day and it was suppose to be sexy to women, to attract women. Although now that I think about it more, my female cousin bought herself a phallic-shaped corvette back in the 70s, so I'm mulling around the psychological connotations or associations.

"1.) C3 Corvette

Suggested By: snapoversteer

Why it's so thrusting: What really shoots the Stingray into the top spot on this list is that it doesn't just look like a penis, but that it's bought almost exclusively as a middle age crisis mobile. The Stingray makes the phallic nature of front-engine sports cars more obvious than any other car, as reader snapoversteer explains:

True story: my dad's buddy bought one of these in about 1978 without telling his wife. They came over for dinner, and before he could respond to inquiries about the new ride, his wife, a psychologist, said, "Oh, Bob's just driving his penis," and promptly went inside.

Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/the-ten-most-ph...s-5862207/"

[SomeStupidName]

When I could finally afford a second fun car I bought a 2013 mustang gt with a 6 speed manual transmission in got to have it green. And that was only a few years ago before covid. During covid I could have sold it for double what I paid but I would rather have the car. I wouldn't mind piecing together another one that is still street legal but could taken to a dirt track or off road course like dirt fish in Washington state.

[Mantiss2021]

Back in the late 1970's, I studied Transportation Design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA. My goal was to be an automobile designer.

The design/styling of a modern automobile IS as much engineering as it is styling: more so, perhaps.

A new car is, above all, a market product intended to bring in as much profit, for as little cost, as possible. The corporation sets the parameters of the product: size, capacity, market demographic, and target sales price. Engineering then lays out the parameters of the physical vehicle. 

In the "old days", when cars were built on a chassis, to which a body was then attached, the stylists had much more free reign to develope all those fantastic finned wonders. But cars now incorporate unified frame that are as much the body (and thus, the limitations of the body) as they are what used to be the "chassis".

Which is to say, that by the time any creative input is solicited from the styling and design staff, market pressure and engineering dictum have already pretty much nailed down what a new models will look like..

And since everyone is competing for the same markets already, and since every manufacturer must abide by the same government regulations, every new car looks like every other "New" car.


Really glad I quit the program after the first term!