Aesthetic Cars

>>17159774
It's weird hey?

When I'm driving I find myself looking in detail at all the passing cars

I evaluate which generations have aged horribly or well and which still look good (80s-90s) jap cars that are in decent shape , or which look damn atrocious (2000s ford with the stupid rounded tail lights, nearly all BMW in any shape or form)

I don't know if in a few years things will
Shift or not? I hope we are at the denouement of every manufacturer
determined to make driverless Elon musk futureisic wannabe HyperCars

I for one won't go driverless

FUCK that

Driverless passenger mobiles is gay as FUCK
It makes more sense to make more and better public transit

Having people all go in personal superpods designed by Elon musk is fckin crazy desu famalam

If pppl take buses or trains they will filter out and spread as they walk or travel in some way to their destination

U must always drive ur car

Don't let the skynet botnet do it for u
Next black mirror is about driverless AI going rogue

>>17159857
I will soon buy an 86. I will keep it forever.

Designed in board rooms and focus tested by normie retards.

More interesting questions
Why is men enjoy striking colors, hard, strong edged silhouette, pronounced lines, guttural vroom vroom or alternatively optional tssssu , and moving very quickly?

While (speaking generally plsnokill) women care about safety, "wake me up tan" / "I don't care grey" with soft curves and quiet rides

>>17159877
Cars have been designed this way for 40 years.
>>17159774
You don't know what 'aesthetic' means.

>>17159888

well then i guess this thread is pointless because most cars look like shit and always have

>>17159888
Damn this nigga right.

I hate cars

>>17159895
It is. OP is retarded.

>>17159888
Yes I do, but something changed. I just can't place my finger on it. Cars are no longer picture worthy. There is a picture of me standing next to my dad's prelude in the 90s. I drive a Civic Si now, I've never felt the the urge to have a picture taken while I'm standing next to it. It's just not as cool nor are cars as valued today as they once were.

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>>17159904
You don't like the way modern cars look. It literally stops at that. I'm the same way though, so don't feel bad.

Here's my daily.

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Modern cars are aesthetic. Even moreso than the bland boxes of the 80s.

It's alright if you don't like the aesthetic. Perhaps your hipster brain just wont allow you to like it until 20 years have passed, but they do have an aesthetic.

>>17159913
I do funny enough. I absolutely love the design of the new Civic, especially the hatchback version. But again, it's just not worthy enough to have a photo taken of.

>>17159927
They just aren't. Explain why people no longer take pictures of themselves next to their cars anymore. Even the normies back then did, but they no longer do today.

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>>17159942

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Twesla when?

>>17159948
KEK. Oh man, you got me.

/thread over

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>>17159958

>>17159964
Are you just pulling instagram photos now?

>>17159970
I only posted Elliot, friend.

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>>17159970
>people don't take pics with new cars anymore
>dismissing a whole social network dedicated to it

>>17159976
That's a black guy.

The major problem of recent car designs is that virtually everyone is going for an "aggressive" face which just looks juvenile to me. Example:
>>17159927

The problem started in the early 2000s.

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Ae86 thread?

>>17159982
That's just a hobo leasing a car. He doesn't love it, he will toss it when the lease is over.

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>>17159774
Wind tunnels.

>>17159948
The more I look at Elliot, the more I think he resembles Nakazato. Please tell me I'm not going crazy.

>>17159991
Post aesthetic pics. My folder could use some fresh ones.

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>>17159927
>>17159888
aesthetic != a e s t h e t i c

Because angular shapes fail safety tests.

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>>17159995
Sure friendo.

>>17160009
Whoa what is thatpicture from? I just discovered what irony is and I love that picture.

>>17160009
kys

>>17160020
it's mcintosh

>>17159995
Who's to say you can't love a lease? And then fall in love with another car

>>17160017
bring back pop-ups!

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>>17160034
No. You don't marry someone and love someone else. It doesn't work that way. Pic related.

>>17159927
This.

OP is a hipster faggot that drinks craft beer, listens to vinyl records for their "warmth," and drives a 30yo shitbox because "they just don't make them like they used to anymore."

Jesus christ what a fag.

>>17160020
The classic vaporwave album Floral Shoppe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE

Vaporwave is NOT irony.

Vaporwave's stance is more focused on loss, the notion of lassitude, and passive acquiescence.
Vaporwave relates to cultural memory and the buried utopianism within capitalist commodities, especially those related to consumer technology in the computing and audio/video entertainment area.

>>17160048
No, I drive an 8th gen Si and love the modern world in every aspect except automotive.

>>17160009
>memes

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>>17160026
>kys
Thanks, but I'm quite happy with myself :)

>>17160050
That's cool, I'll listen to it ironically at first for now, since I don't get it but later on I'll actually like it. Thanks.

>>17160086
It's like a fever dream reflecting on the lost capitalistic dream of the early 1990s and the birth of cultural globalization.

Like drowning in a shopping mall fountain of syrup.

>>17160100
>>17160050
>>17160086
It's these songs that play in my head when I'm looking at these old pics.

What if I install pop up headlights on my Mitsubishi Eclipse, will that make it more aesthetic?

>>17160115
Yes. Pop-ups represent a bygone era.

>>17160046
I want an MR2 so bad, but the meme tax is too strong.

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>>17159774
For the same reasons we can't even surpass 80's Geo Metro fuel economy. They don't want you moving around, discovering, and enjoying life. You're tax cattle, stay in your pens.

See Bill's red sports car? Probably means he's gay or is compensating for a small penis. Keep the other cattle in line so they don't venture too far away from the farm.

>>17160138
>can find them all day for under $5,000

What is meme tax to you?

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>>17160135
Pic related

>>17160138
$4k is too much?

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>>17160138
They aren't that expensive and I don't think there's gonna be a huge surge in price anytime soon.

>>17160151
This picture will never not warm my heart.

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>>17160156
My personal favorite is this one not sure why though

>>17160148
>>17160153
>>17160155

New Jersey, aka hell for cars. Find a nice one? Prepare to pay a premium. Found a cheap one? The entire body has rotted through. Oh, and since it's a toyota, absolutely NO maintenance has been done, that means it's still using the same fuel filter for 300K miles, ignition cables were never changed, fuel injectors are clogged, and the differential was welded shut.

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Just wait until you obtain an 80s shitbox and you start going hyperautistic about interior aesthetics.

>>17160169
You need to go out of state then. Here is one near me.

https://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/6118222294.html

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Saab 900

Toppola is a brand of camper shell originally made for the Saab 99 combi coupé. By removing the hatch and putting on the Toppola a car could be converted to a campervan in about 15 to 30 minutes. The top can easily be lifted off and the hatch door reattached, so the car can be used without the Toppola. The unit is small, but features full standing height (2.0 m) and a 170 by 200 cm bed. It could be fitted with a complete kitchen and even a heater for use during winter.

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>>17160177
>SW20

Nah m8, you couldn't pay me to drive one of those shitheaps with cheaped out suspension and with that signature 90's lump of plastic styling.

>>17160187
But the SW20 is better than the AW11....

Here is one in USABLE condition.

https://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/6098259311.html

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>>17160155
>panda AW
Lads I got a stiffie

>>17160187
>>17160200
Found one in even better condition. But the blue is not my taste.

https://dayton.craigslist.org/cto/6111222542.html

>>17160187
But the SW20 is better, just like how the AE101 is objectively better than the AE86 in every way.

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>>17160200
>autotragic
>used as a fucking garbage hauler
>this

>>17160209
Holy shit, it's the blue falcon.

>>17159774
>Because you can't have square edges or you might injure some moron that walks into traffic
>Because a bunch of current car design aesthetics are self referential memes (cars need a face, pointless lines on side panels etc)

>>17160219
I never said it was good. I said usable. But again, there are more in my area.

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>>17160230
That grill opening juts out the furthest and is sharp.

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>>17160230
>pointless lines on side panels
A engineer friend of mine works at VAG estimated the completely useless "edge" or "fold " on modern car designs effectively costs roughly $500 per car.
$500 flushed down the toilet for NOTHING.

I'm sure there are dozens of further examples.
This just pisses me off. Anything that does not improve the car's performance, safety or comfort should not exist.

>>17159904
I think it's because everything is optimized.
>aerodynamics
>safety
>interior space
>normie visuals

Companies no longer explore risky new styles. Maybe the Nissan Juke and Kia Soul are exceptions, but I fell like those are specifically marketed toward hipsters who have no taste anyway.

>finally get my first manual car
>shitty early 2000s aesthetics
Heck my stuff up famalam

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>>17160272
Speaking of Juke..... License Plate

>>17159948
>posting best boy
Saved for future use

>>17160254
I always thought they existed to strengthen / increase the rigidity of the side panels and cut costs on material thickness, so it surprises me that it costs MORE and looks crap.

>>17160244
It also has a dumb car face, you just know they spent weeks working on it in marketting meetings.
>Its a fun car so it needs a fun face
>look how happy he is

>>17160272
The only point mentioned I care about is aerodynamics, because lower air resistance=higher topspeed+better mpg

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>>17160272
>>17160287
Sticker

>>17160291
It's so angry

>>17159948
This car belongs in a museum

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>>17160288
I swear that Elliot was Nakazato IRL.

>>17160048
Not OP, but enjoy your wind tunnel tested, soccer mom focus group car aesthetic.

>>17160292
Of course, but what happens is most cars end up looking about the same. Especially the front ends.

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>>17160314
Literally describes the most-loved car on /o/.

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I like the NB Miata interior. It reminds me of '90s skeuomorphic UI design, like riding around in Windows 98.

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>>17160358
the cluster is clean, simple, yet a e s t h e t i c as fuck

>>17160339
I think the rear end is as important as the front end for low air resistance, just look at the CRX, the 1.gen insight, the model S, the old Datsun Z-series, the EV-1 and many sports cars.

https://youtu.be/DrxJCOVsV1E

New generation thinks cars aren't cool.

They are for faggots and Uber drivers.

It's not hip to drive

/o/ is old

>>17159995
so what?
cars are good thats why we're here but there's so many people who just see them simplyas (if i may, what they are) transportation devices

>>17160716
That's what's wrong. The dude in the first pic clearly loves his car and treasures it.

>>17160728
OP's pic is so fucking blurry how can you tell?

What are you even implying? That the chink in the OP loves his car more because it's Japanese and the 1980s?

My first car was a 95 Camry, but best believe I also loved the shit out of it.

>>17160740
Well, when you buy a GTR or any other performance car it's because you love it. You did not love your Camry. You got it to get from A to B. And that's what wrong with the automotive world today.

>>17160365
Yeah, I love the green from my NA cluster at night

>>17160761
I got it because I was 15 and it was time for a car.
I certainly drove more than just from A to B in it. I learned to love driving period. In a Camry.

Drove it from North Carolina to Maryland completely on a whim once. Best years of my life with that Camry.

>>17160761
there was shitboxes since the beginning of time dude i honestly don't see your point.

>>17160784
>>17160822
STOP. YOU'RE RUINING MY DELUSIONS. GTFO

Globalization ruined our culture