...if this is what passes for good design 54 years later:
For the time being, I suppose the Acura is the only one that qualifies for butt-ugly, since it's the only one of which whose posterior is shown.
Late designer Duncan McRae, credited with having freshened the 1957 Studebaker sedans for the 1958 market, has now been exonerated at least four times over...and I'm betting he spent a whole lot less money on the entire line than any one of the above eye-searing catastrophes....adjusted for inflation, of course.
Now we know why so many good automobile designers of the 30s through 60s have passed on. They've been spared the pain of seeing what their contemporaries do when aerodynamic necessities confront the demand to do something, anything, to give "our" product distinction when compared with every other bar of soap that's been subjected to a gentle, lengthy water spray in a wind tunnel.
Your opinion may vary. BP
For the time being, I suppose the Acura is the only one that qualifies for butt-ugly, since it's the only one of which whose posterior is shown.
Late designer Duncan McRae, credited with having freshened the 1957 Studebaker sedans for the 1958 market, has now been exonerated at least four times over...and I'm betting he spent a whole lot less money on the entire line than any one of the above eye-searing catastrophes....adjusted for inflation, of course.
Now we know why so many good automobile designers of the 30s through 60s have passed on. They've been spared the pain of seeing what their contemporaries do when aerodynamic necessities confront the demand to do something, anything, to give "our" product distinction when compared with every other bar of soap that's been subjected to a gentle, lengthy water spray in a wind tunnel.
Your opinion may vary. BP
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