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looking at all the new cars coming out, most just seem to be based of old models, or a mix of other cars. the new commodore looks like a lexus front and falcon rear. the new camry looks like the front was taken straight off a mazda 3 or 6. the new evo shown on a thread on here looks like it is a mazda 6 body, with silvia headlights.

are we getting to a point where the designers are running out of ideas? or is it just a phase where the designers are being told to copy other companies by the marketing people? but there are only a few companies that seem to be keeping to their own designs.

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If you look at just family sedans of course the styling will be conservative and trend-following.

Remember what happened with the AU Falcon when Ford decided to be bold with the styling - yes it got shat on by everybody. Hard.

Leave the out-of-bounds styling for the hot hatches and the sports cars please.

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The direction of car design is getting worse and worse... imo the worst part on all new cars is that they ALL have this obsession with making the doors really big and dead plain looking. It looks like no thought has gone into them at all and consequently, from side views all these cars look the same!!

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Everyone makes 'em in a wind tunnel

With a computer

With economy of material

Designers are the guys who just fob-em off too people and decide what colour badge and how big its going too wear along with the 'options' package of plastic, colour and other factory bolt on bits.

I'm not suprised.

But no sir I dont like the dull eye for a straight guy in car design lately.

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alot of graphic design looks the same. alot of architecture looks the same. designers go with the current trends, so stop with this 'ewww, its a toyota/holden/ford/audi...' crap. all design has influences...so no, mad082 designers arnt copying eachother, and are not running out of ideas, its just ppl in design follow similar styles

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alot of graphic design looks the same. alot of architecture looks the same. designers go with the current trends, so stop with this 'ewww, its a toyota/holden/ford/audi...' crap. all design has influences...so no, mad082 designers arnt copying eachother, and are not running out of ideas, its just ppl in design follow similar styles

dude, go have a cry about it. all i was simply saying is that in the past they have managed to design things that looked different, but in the past few months the cars everyone is coming out with just look like they haven't done any new designing. kind of like if you forgot to do your homework when you were at school and just copied of a friends.

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dude, go have a cry about it. all i was simply saying is that in the past they have managed to design things that looked different, but in the past few months the cars everyone is coming out with just look like they haven't done any new designing. kind of like if you forgot to do your homework when you were at school and just copied of a friends.

Look at family cars 20 years ago, they all looked very similar then too, this entire argument is stupid, they look similar now ofcourse and at the end of the day they all have 4 doors, big boot and engine and have to be aerodynamically efficient so i don't know what you are expecting. Maybe you should give it a go

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If you look at just family sedans of course the styling will be conservative and trend-following.

Remember what happened with the AU Falcon when Ford decided to be bold with the styling - yes it got shat on by everybody. Hard.

Leave the out-of-bounds styling for the hot hatches and the sports cars please.

Have to agree with that. You surprise your usual customer base with something too far off what they were expecting (which is usually a trendy evolution) then you end up with an AU situation.

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Look at family cars 20 years ago, they all looked very similar then too, this entire argument is stupid, they look similar now ofcourse and at the end of the day they all have 4 doors, big boot and engine and have to be aerodynamically efficient so i don't know what you are expecting. Maybe you should give it a go

how did an xd falcon look like a vb commodore. for starters, the xd falcon looks like it was based off a shoe box.

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Have to agree with that. You surprise your usual customer base with something too far off what they were expecting (which is usually a trendy evolution) then you end up with an AU situation.

and then they went with something different again and came up with the BA falcon, which sold shitloads.

there are plenty of car manufacturers that can come up with new ideas, but some that don't seem to do any work at all.

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how did an xd falcon look like a vb commodore. for starters, the xd falcon looks like it was based off a shoe box.

Yeah you are, right, they are completely different, my god i only see it now, its hard to believe they were released in the same century they are so vastly different, unlike today!

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and then they went with something different again and came up with the BA falcon, which sold shitloads.

there are plenty of car manufacturers that can come up with new ideas, but some that don't seem to do any work at all.

they went with the BA design cause it was a safe design. they wernt gonna make the same mistake twice. the BA is not sumthin completly different. it kept within the design trends, unlike the AU that was like a big soggy looking egg.

remember, holden and ford have to appeal to a massive target market. gota keep ther design appealing to a broad audience.

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Yeah you are, right, they are completely different, my god i only see it now, its hard to believe they were released in the same century they are so vastly different, unlike today!

Hi

I like the Hommer-Simpson car......great to look at and fun to be in.

Every one missed the whole point of that episode.

We unfortunately are in the......If you f**k up this car design your sacked era.

Know one wants to get a bit wacky with design and do anything different.

Mass public comformity

Cheers

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