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Originally Posted by sygazelle

I was going to bring that up but I didn't want to derail the thread.


I get why people buy cars that are ugly ( or weird/different/non-conforming/unusual), but I cannot understand how some cars get past the draft design stage.

Some cars don't sell very well because they look ugly to many people. The few that buy them are just being themselves, but the car companies are in it to sell units and make money. How can these ugly cars get designed in the first place? Why doesn't someone on the design team say, "That's ugly, let's start over!"? And even if the design team is drinking their own Kook Aid, how does that ugly design get approved and then built?

You mentioned the Avenger in the OP. The Avenger is a perfectly fine appliance to me. It's not beautiful but I don't think its ugly either.

Agreed. I'd never purchase one but from a pure visual standpoint? You wouldn't need to put a brown bag over the Avenger to fuck it. Nissan Juke or the Cube or the vert Infiniti / Lexus / Range? Brown bag, black out curtains and leaving all the lights off.