I Figured Out Why the Chevy Volt Is Ugly

[boulder_bum]

I think the Chevy Volt is an awesome idea that I'm excited about! It makes me respect Chevy more, and I think it may even put them in a position to be innovators, but I always thought the design looked attrocious, and I think I just figured out why!

Exhibit A:


Exhibit B:


The Chevy Volt is a car that looks like an SUV!

Right now I think the big drawback to the volt is the appearance, and even though I'd throw cartwheels over an electric car I'd hesitate to buy it just because I think it's so ugly. I'm sure Chevy just wants to give the Volt an eye-catching, futuristic appearance to make it stand out (like the Prius' design), but I wish they made the car look a little more future, a little less gas-guzzler. Maybe GM's design engineers can't think outside of the SUV box because SUVs are at the heart of GM's business.

If the Volt looked more like this, I think I'd but it in a second!

[airportkid]

I'm glad someone else thinks the low roofed bulked up body styling is ugly as hell. To my eye the style looks too much like a brainless dinosaur: all muscle and no wit or vision, stupidly trampling toward its own extinction - a perception that is completely opposite the spirit of an EV.

MB

[hycamguy07]

The bottom car looks like a death trap if involved in a auto accident.

[Tideland Prius]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hycamguy07 @ May 29 2007, 10:41 AM) [snapback]451539[/snapback]</div>

The bottom car looks like a death trap if involved in a auto accident.
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That bottom car is a Lexus concept featured in Minority Report.

[boulder_bum]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tideland Prius @ May 29 2007, 11:59 AM) [snapback]451551[/snapback]</div>

That bottom car is a Lexus concept featured in Minority Report.
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Hey, good eye! I'm surprised anyone would recognize that.

[Pinto Girl]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hycamguy07 @ May 29 2007, 12:41 PM) [snapback]451539[/snapback]</div>

The bottom car looks like a death trap if involved in a auto accident.
[/b]

Ohhhhhhh...that's the *front* end we're looking at!
[laughing]

I was thinking it has this neat long-hooded/cut down pontoon fender thing going on...those brushed metal strips evoke memories of the polished exhausts and louvers of 1930's Packards and Duesenbergs...kind of a retro thing...

It just needs to say, 's-u-p-e-r-c-h-a-r-g-e-d'!

The cabin area kind of looks like a mid-30's Cord (not the L-39, the later coffin-nosed one), too, sort of bulbous...wonder if the headlights retract by cranking a handle under the dash...? The hood, come to think of it, *did* have these prominent horizontal chrome trim bars...

Dang!

[darelldd]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ May 29 2007, 10:40 AM) [snapback]451538[/snapback]</div>

a perception that is completely opposite the spirit of an EV.

[/b]

But you are in luck! This particular version of an EV will use gasoline! The circle is complete, and it all makes sense.

[ozyran]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ May 29 2007, 07:48 PM) [snapback]451734[/snapback]</div>

Ohhhhhhh...that's the *front* end we're looking at!
[laughing]

I was thinking it has this neat long-hooded/cut down pontoon fender thing going on...those brushed metal strips evoke memories of the polished exhausts and louvers of 1930's Packards and Duesenbergs...kind of a retro thing...

It just needs to say, 's-u-p-e-r-c-h-a-r-g-e-d'!

The cabin area kind of looks like a mid-30's Cord (not the L-39, the later coffin-nosed one), too, sort of bulbous...wonder if the headlights retract by cranking a handle under the dash...? The hood, come to think of it, *did* have these prominent horizontal chrome trim bars...

Dang!
[/b]

You know, I had a similar feeling dawn upon me as I was looking at that car. I realized that the engineers must have been confused when they designed the seats and the dash, because they accidentally put them in backwards.

As for the Volt, once I laid eyes on the 2009 Prius, the Volt became just awful; IMO, the styling of the Volt is as nauseating as all of the General's trucks, save the Colorado/Canyon (neither of which I like, they just look better than the Silverado and Sierra).

[larkinmj]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hycamguy07 @ May 29 2007, 01:41 PM) [snapback]451539[/snapback]</div>

The bottom car looks like a death trap if involved in a auto accident.
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That car can actually drive up the sides of buildings!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ May 29 2007, 01:40 PM) [snapback]451538[/snapback]</div>

I'm glad someone else thinks the low roofed bulked up body styling is ugly as hell. To my eye the style looks too much like a brainless dinosaur: all muscle and no wit or vision, stupidly trampling toward its own extinction - a perception that is completely opposite the spirit of an EV.
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But entirely apropos to the spirit of GM!

[daniel]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Boulder Bum @ May 28 2007, 10:08 PM) [snapback]451325[/snapback]</div>

... but I always thought the design looked attrocious,
[/b]

What does it matter what a car that's never going to be built looks like?