IMO, you are right. Buyers.us would think that body design looks ridiculous, if not cartoonish.
Both Chinese and Japanese designers, and the actual buying public has different ideas to what looks good compared to the rest of the world. I say that as way-way back when the internet was new, and I had to get the latest EVs from Asian from the Automotive paper magazine in the Automotive dept. at my (hp.com) work. The concept designs, and event the toned down designs that public were buying, looked weird by our standards (but hey that's what sells ... there). Since them, most of the Asian designs I've seen were not going to sell well in the U.S. (but they did ok in their markets). Let' not forget the 1999-2001 hypermini https://www.google.com/search?q=hypermini which being touted for lease at the same time as the EV1, Rav4-gen1, Honda+, etc. Personally, I thought the hypermini looked awful, especially with its (urine)green paint-job, and a body style that reminded me of a roadkill-squished toad. It drove ok, but looked terrible. But, lets not forget what-sells. Remember the rocket tail lights, wings and tail fins on cars? https://www.google.com/search?q=vintage+cars+rocket+fins+wings When I was a young kid in the late 1950's, I would see those designs driving-by on the road (and smelling the raw-gas from the carburetors) and thought they were goofy-looking. But they sold well, and every automaker copied the idea and has similar designs. Today, those rocket lights, wings and fins wouldn't sell (too old school for the newest generation, but they are still collected by a few car-club buffs). For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
