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Re: BMW i3 - ugly Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:11:56
In Reply to: Re: BMW i3 - ugly, Justin VanAbrahams  [Profile/Gallery]
, Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:18:36
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I assume you are referring to SAAB, but while that is true, there was always some element of good design there - polarizing maybe but relatively clean design. The same is probably true here to some degree with the i3, though the original concept was much more clean (the doors look really awkward imho on the production car). A lot of this is beauty in the eye of the beholder and at least these polarizing designs are not boring!
What seems unfortunate to me, is that many of the recent polarizing designs (I'm thinking stuff like the i3, the juke, cube, etc) are different more just based on aesthetics than function. Obviously they meet functional needs, but the same form could be done in very different aesthetics. So eg, the Juke looks awful to me, but I get it that some may like it, and also, it is conceivable that the same functionality could be done in a way that looks good to me. That said, the juke is not a particularly clean design - it is the strange ornamentation that makes it look garish to me.
Honda Element was kind of cooler in a way, and started this boxy Cube/Soul trend thing... why? You could hose out the interior of the car. How cool is that if you ride MTB's surf etc... all that mud, sand, etc...
The i3 is frustrating to me, that BMW went for marketing whiz-bang instead of releasing a really nice car that happened to have the same tech. Eg a 3 series, or a 4 series GT, or a wagon or something... Not unlike Tesla's approach... To me that would be a much more useful package for the tech vs a tiny people mover. Honestly, I'd rather ride a bike than drive a Smart Car, and though riding a bike might not make such an obvious statement as one of those teensy commuters, it is better for the environment also!
Tesla is very interesting to me going forward. Hopefully by the time we run out of good used saabs, their product will be stable and well known, and there will be used models available on the market. To me, the model S is one of the closest things to what I think of as "a SAAB" that I can see on the market right now.
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