Did I miss some great scientific leap forward wherein the laws of aerodynamics were tossed unceremoniously out the window? Surely it hasn’t been ten years since sleek, rounded cars were all the rage – presumably because they cut down on wind resistance and thereby got slightly better gas mileage. Does anyone remember the restyling of the Ford Taurus? The original design of the Saturn? The Geo Storm? The Honda Insight?
What’s the body type of the future? Apparently one that looks like it’s been built from Lego bricks. As a matter of fact, the resemblance is so uncanny one television commercial actually shows one of these vehicles being built out of Lego bricks. It all started with the gawdawful Pontiac Aztek. Bad spelling and bad design; a transition from aerodynamic to boxy. Now we’ve got the Honda Pilot and its bastardized offspring.
What’s happening? Is it just that these vehicles were well along in the design cycle when gas was obscenely inexpensive and we were all living like fat hogs off the proceeds from our flooz.com stock? Now that we’re all back in reality we’re stuck with these damned ugly looking inefficient things? Boy, I’d sure like to meet an automobile body style designer, I have some questions.
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