Has car design stalled? The Edwardian era saw a move away from

File: soarer-86-92.jpg (164KB, 938x1000px) Image search: [Google]

164KB, 938x1000px

>>13906405
Case in point:

Above pic: 86-91 Soarer
Below pic: 92-01 Soarer

File: 96-97_Taurus.jpg (166KB, 1024x455px) Image search: [Google]

166KB, 1024x455px

But actual jelly bean Taurii (96-99) were a sales disaster.

>>13906405
Blame safety standards and regulations.


All the cars that you would reference as being increasingly progressive in design up til the 80's had virtually no safety or impact standards to limit their design.

>>13906405
thats not a jellybean taurus

>>13906405
speaking of the ford tempo's...
does anybody know of a tranny that can fit the motor?
my brother dropped one on me with a rebuilt barely broken in engine but the tranny is fucked and its on its second one and they come out to 750 a pop used + labor at his mechanics

now i plan to do the work myself and shit but is there a transmission thats compatible?

dont know shit on tempos

or division

File: 1447816532943.jpg (233KB, 1200x800px) Image search: [Google]

233KB, 1200x800px

>>13906405
Do not fear, the future is on it's way.

>>13906405
>all 30s cars looked the same
>all 40s cars looked the same
>repeat
>all 90s cars looked the same
>all 00s cars looked the same
>all 2010s cars look the same

wow its fucking nothing.

File: E65 7 series.jpg (410KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

410KB, 1024x768px

>>13906405
Actually if you're looking for the modern cars that have carried on their traits in the most modern cars since, you're looking for the E65 Seven Series.

What is there to change?

Also, you're wrong, designs have become more aerodynamic since the 1980s and the materials have also changed, making cars lighter, faster and also stronger.

>>13906885
please tell me that thing was at least RWD

>>13907637
is that shopped

>>13908065
soon it won't be

>>13906405
Nigga, yoy fucking blind?
...or so bad at art that you can't see lines?

>>13906980
Tranny is absolute garbage in Tempo.
Ford designers should have been executed.
My granny had one that wouldn't shift from 2nd - 3rd half the time. Dealer kept saying they couldn't reproduce the problem. Refused to fix it.

Ford cars are absolute shit, and that division is the absolute worst auto manufacturer on the globe. Their trucks are okay, but Ford Motors are fucking crooks that make shit tier cars and rip off old ladies.

Car design has stalled because of the EPA's fleet fuel economy standards. Cars gravitate towards the most aerodynamic design because more aerodynamic = better fuel economy. So you end up with every car having the same basic shape.

>>13908059
Nigga plz...
Do you ride a bike or something?

>>13908222
I live in Australia where we don't have these (luckily)

>>13908227
My fat whore ex had the Mercury Sable, last I heard it was left on the side if the road dead in Florida.
They are total shitboxes, fwd, and get about a dosen miles a gallon.
The fucking worst.

Also hers was always leaking and overheating, and throwing belts like a special olympian.

>>13908304
jesus

File: Ford Taurus JellyBean.jpg (788KB, 1548x1156px) Image search: [Google]

788KB, 1548x1156px

>>13906405

>>13906885
>>13906927
>Jellybean taurus

> The Taurus was released to showrooms on September 24 of that year, and sales began a week later on October 1.[14] The Taurus was released almost a week later than the Sable, as Ford designers consulted a $500 Sherman Oaks, California astrologer to figure out the best solstice date to release the car.[15]

>Ford designers consulted a $500 Sherman Oaks, California astrologer to figure out the best solstice date to release the car.[15]

>>13907932
That car's expression, though...

It looks like an English aristocrat having to chastise the butler for helping himself to some of the family wine.

>>13908667
>reagan loved jellybeans
>ford makes a jellybean on wheels
>reagan consulted astrologers
>ford consulted astrologers
>reagan was a shitheap
>ford makes shitheaps
THE PLOT THICKENS

>>13906405
To a certain degree it's what you are used t seeing. I'm a gearhead from birth, but I have trouble differentiating cars before the mid 50's or so.

Besides that, what you are looking at as far as modern car styling is concerned is the direct result of fuel economy standards in the US and to a lesser degree, safety and crash standards.

The US has had the largest car market in the world for a long time. In order to sell cars here, you have to meet our emissions and safety standards as well as fuel efficiency standards. If you don't meet the MPG standards, you get bitch slapped with a massive tax, making your product thousands more expensive.

The best and easiest way to meet tightening MPG standards was to improve aerodynamics as well as make engines more efficient.

The Taurus was just the first mass produced car to reach this kind of design in a shape that was appealing enough to most buyers. The smooth shape and rounded lines were inevitable, if Ford hadn't done it someone else would have very shortly after.

Aero wins, it has simply been a race to the most efficient design.

>>13908304
I have a 2000 Sable, and it is an excellent car. Rides smooth as silk, dead dependable, 25-30mpg average, comfy... Most of the time it depends more on how well the car was taken care of than what type of car it is. When you by a $500-$1000 car, you are going to have a fuck ton of problems no matter what.

>>13908059
No but the SHO came with a V8. Ugly as hell but neat sleepers

>>13908065
Yeah just a lil bit

>>13908667
A fucking astrologer?! Seriously for fucking real, FORD?!