Comments on: Ugly Design Awards Always Include Japanese Cars

By: S15

S15 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:40:42 +0000

Is it just me or are all the new Subies ugly ducklings. Same goes for all Acuras, Hondas(the Civic and Accord are major disapointments), and Toyotas. The newer Nissans would look great if they didn’t have those stupid boomerange headlights.

By: mush360

mush360 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:49:59 +0000

Should we really place the blame on the Japanese and their quirky taste in weird game shows if their luxury cars were designed here in North America?

“Two-thirds of all Acura vehicles sold in America are researched, designed, developed and assembled exclusively in North America.”
(source: http://www.carbodydesign.com/archive/2007/05/29-acura-opens-design-studio/).

Manufacturers redesign offerings might have influenced these disappointing sales figures of -38.5% in Acura Truck sales and -28.8% in Acura Car sales (July 2008-2009), in comparison to Audi sales have climbed 20% (Year to date).
Source: http://www.hondabeat.com/sales_stats.php
Source: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/cnw/article.jsp?content=20090804_112502_1_cnw_cnw

I place the blame squarely on the automotive design studios. Peter Schreyer from VW/Audi group should forget about Korea and show some of these studios on how put out some winning and lasting automotive designs.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:35:30 +0000

For someone who said Acura TL is nice, boy you sure are tasteless!

By: logic

logic — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:48:58 +0000

I nominate pretty much anything sporting a Toyota badge nowadays.

Also – the G37 coupe and sedan are some butt-ugly variations on what was once sexy – the G35. Nissan’s new Maxima is simply atrocious. The Pathfinder Armada causes my eyes to bleed. Whose brilliant idea was it that all modern Japanese cars need to have odd bends and droops in the weirdest of places? And boomerang-shaped headlamps? No THANKS.

Though I must say that the designers at Honda seem to have their heads on straight when it comes to styling nowadays. Acura TL included.