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Car brands forgot how to make a beautiful car. What gives? The new tech is great functionally, but the forms suck, they are all too damn slick or showy or bubbly. I really can't find a modern car or truck that looks good. I donāt understand it. There are endless beautiful old cars. I especially love the boxy old jeep XJs (pre 2001), and old range rover classics (pre 1996). The best new car Iāve seen is the one new model of the Toyota Land Cruiser, you of course canāt get in the US. On a recent trip to Tokyo, I fell in love with the old sedan taxis, mainly the Toyota Century (pre 2017), incredible. Iād love to design a car one day.
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80's and 90's BMWs!! Thank you! Bring back the boxy cars now. Every new car looks the damn same.
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80s-2000s Mazda, Nissan, and Toyota pickups. Efficient, functional, fun colors, reliable and will fix themselves if you yell angrily enough, cheap, not awful on gas. Trucks are personality vehicles.
Never buy a brand new car for the love of god.
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They are apparently a piece of shit but the design is so fucking good and that's good enough for me.
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