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1 hour ago, rperez817 said:
Ioniq 6 SE (the 3rd finalist in the 2024 NACOTY car category) offers a great combination of style and value.
If Hyundai were an American company and if it offered a direct-to-consumer sales model for BEV, I would have bought an Ioniq 6 rather than a Tesla Model 3 earlier this year.
I find the 6 to be odd looking and poorly proportioned with its odd, droopy rear end.
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20 hours ago, fuzzymoomoo said:
The bigger question is how in the hell is anyone with a torso fitting in that back seat?
"Rear seat passengers must use the conveniently built-in guillotine to remove their head/upper body to enter the vehicle."*
*Tesla is not responsible for injuries that will occur with use of included guillotine.
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3 hours ago, Chrisgb said:
Stopping kills, not speed.
Solution - All accelerator, all the time.
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5 hours ago, DeluxeStang said:
I sincerely hope that character line that runs down most of the body side, and then curves behind the rear wheels carries over to this design. But if it's there, I don't see it.
I think I see some sort of shadow change along a crease bisecting the door handles.
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23 hours ago, rperez817 said:
Toyota is discontinuing the current Venza (rebadged Harrier) after 2024 model year. Toyota Venza Canceled After 2024 - Kelley Blue Book (kbb.com)
Ah. Well there you go!
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9 hours ago, silvrsvt said:
So I saw this on social media just before-seriously the bed is that small on it?!
Yes. I saw it in person, and despite its massive length, the bed isn't very big.
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7 minutes ago, akirby said:
Mustang Mach-EYeah, I got what you meant after I posted.
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57 minutes ago, akirby said:
They dared to name a crossover the same as the car?
It's "Crown Signia"
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51 minutes ago, Rick73 said:
I recall a study that concluded the safest speed is that of traffic flow. People who drive much slower or faster than average flow cause more accidents. If I recall correctly, accidents didn’t always involve them, so data can be misleading. In my personal experience, people who drive very slowly on Interstates cause backups which makes many drivers caught behind them impatient, and often aggressive in an effort to get around the backup. And the guy at front who caused the problem in the first place wasn’t even aware of accident.
This is absolutely a problem - and wouldn't be AS bad if the slowpoke would stay in the right lane - instead, they'll dart all the way over to the left lane to do 10 under the limit....like WTF?
34 minutes ago, 92merc said:When ever I did something not too bright as a kid, and failed, my dad would say "Did you learn anything?" Usually the answer was yes.
Unfortunately, for too many people today, the answer is No.
Well, often failure isn't even allowed - i.e. participation trophies.
"Padding too many corners" as my brother says.
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29 minutes ago, fuzzymoomoo said:
No different than what Ford did with the new Mustang….Right, but Ford at least changed the sheetmetal on every panel (except maybe the roof). This redesign kept the same sheetmetal - including door skins - between the pillars.
23 minutes ago, akirby said:
It’s just as new as every other Camry the last 30 years. Which isn’t a bad thing. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. You listening Ford?I don't have a problem with that overall approach, and advocate them doing that with ICE products going forward so that those products don't whither on the vine - but change all the sheet metal when doing it - see above.
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1 hour ago, Hugh said:
Nailed it.
It looks like anyone with Sync 4 and up. I'll look for that feature in the updates.
Conversely - it can be a good tool if folks say "feature X is buried in too many sub-menus" and they get a few thousand of the same thing so they change it.
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I'm not really sure what the point of this is with the Venza and Highlander already in this space.
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So it's basically a thorough refresh they're calling "all new" - with the middle body and doors unchanged.
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Here's a thought - don't run in the road in front of a car.
How about we address problems BEFORE they become problems - more thorough driving tests (which helps a multitude of issues), and make people responsible for their own actions instead of having to "pad every corner" to use a phrase my brother uses.
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2 hours ago, rperez817 said:
That's correct, urban transportation design and planning in 20th century and into the 21st deliberately favored automobiles, thereby endangering other street users especially pedestrians. In fact, jaywalking regulations specifically were introduced in the U.S. nearly a century ago at the behest of the automotive industry, as California Assemblyman Phil Ting described.
Many locales have adopted a "complete streets" design philosophy that does a much better job accounting for street users who are not in cars and trucks, resulting in a dramatic reduction of pedestrian injuries and fatalities. Below is a simple example in Seattle (Rainier Avenue).
Yes, that's one of the chief advantages of autonomous vehicles. Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (Ford Motor Company is a member of that organization) had a panel discussion a few weeks ago on how "advanced vehicle technologies" including ADAS and AV can improve pedestrian safety. PAVE Virtual Panel: “How Advanced Vehicle Technologies Can Improve Pedestrian Safety” – Full Recording | PAVE Campaign
Very well said GearheadGrrrl. The IIHS research paper referenced in the original post mentioned several of the more recent studies in that regard. The association between passenger-vehicle front-end profiles and pedestrian injury severity in motor vehicle crashes (iihs.org)
AKA - remove lanes and cause more traffic because people can't stay out of the road.....;
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18 hours ago, DeluxeStang said:
That's Vizcom, a free software, at least for the base version. It's only available on desktops for now, but they're working on a mobile version. It uses AI to render, you can feed either existing images, and/or text prompts into it. It's pretty primitive as far as AI image creation goes, it tends to mess up the details a lot of the time. But for free software, it's not bad.
It saves a ton of time if you want to sketch something, and then render it, because you can just give it a simple pencil sketch, and ask it to render that drawing realistically, and end up with something that would take half and hour to do in Photoshop if not longer.
As for the 3D modeling itself, I use a program called GravitySketch, which allows you to design in full scale wearing a VR headset. So you can walk around a full sized model while making changes, it's pretty ready to get into.
Sounds pretty neat! I'll have to check those out.
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this can be a good idea, but I'm sure folks will be like "I want the cupholder 3" to the left".
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1 hour ago, silvrsvt said:
next EV thread I post I'm putting a disclaimer that you need to find a new talking point or it gets locked!
Good luck - I'm sure we'll get a few ....articles from someone to really spice things up.
26 minutes ago, DeluxeStang said:Thanks, that's actually what I'm going for, something that doesn't look like a normal truck at first glance. The bed starts as the pillars start to go down. I tried a version of the design where the cab goes straight down like most trucks, but the proportions just looked off.
To put it into perspective, the model is about a foot and a half shorter than a maverick, but with a similarly sized bed, with ideas on how the bed could be extended even further for more space. I was worried about the angled pillars making it difficult to reach over, but the vehicle isn't very tall, it's about 1-2 inches lower than a maverick's roof, so reaching over the side pillar is easier than trying to reach over the side of something like an f-150 or ranger.
I'm also working on another truck, midsized for that one, that's far more traditional looking, it looks a bit like Rivian's truck from some angles.
I'd love to design cars but also didn't want to move to where the industry is (i.e. Michigan mostly) - have tons of sketches over the years.
I could definitely tell it's a lower truck - maybe it's just the angle that made the back part look filled in more than open behind the butresses.
7 minutes ago, T-dubz said:What software are you using? That looks like it would be fun to mess around with.
Agreed!
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1 hour ago, Deanh said:
actually...we were basically informed by Ford Trainers no less, to question customers to see if an EV was fully suitable for their needs....if not then to suggest alternatives....doesnt rerally pertain too much to me, but was rather refreshing to tell the truth....
That's how it should be really - give the customer something that suits their lifestyle/needs, and they'll come back next time around. Do the opposite and they'll say "that dealer talked me into product X, I hate it, I'm not buying that brand again!"
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The endless back and forth on the same subject in all threads is exciting! lol.
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22 hours ago, DeluxeStang said:
Tesla design in the sense of prioritizing areo targets over aesthetic appeal.
I get that, zig where others zag is the guiding principle to my own approach to product design. My mentality is the world only looks at you if you give them a reason to, if you're a startup, and you just copy the f-150, then everyone is just going to buy an f-150.
I'm working on a small sporty truck for my portfolio, early on, I decided to wanted to shorten the hood and lengthen the bed, while also lowering the nose. Trying to applying those ideas to something with the typical blocky truck styling cues just looked off. So I decided to try something radically different. I said to myself, in theory, this would be an EV, you can make an EV truck perform really well, but what if you also made it look the part? You're already giving this truck the cab forward proportions of a mid-engine car, so instead of pulling styling cues from a typical truck, make it look like a lifted mid engine sports car instead. It worked, version 1 and 2 of the design were a little rough, I'd say I'm on version 3.5 now, and it's showing some promise.
It still needs some tweaks, but it's something very different. The overall profile looks vaguely like the lancia rally cars from the 80s, and there's an areo pass through in the hood like the EV charger concept. It's a small, practical truck that goes and looks like a sports car. It wouldn't appeal to everyone, but it would definitely appeal to people who want the practicality of a truck, in a more exciting package. So I definitely understand the appeal of doing things differently, but there's a good different, and a bad different.
12 hours ago, DeluxeStang said:Here you go my friend. I have to preface that this was rendered feeding a 3D into an AI program, so it did some weird things. The surfacing and detailing is pretty off compared to the actual model, but the overall shape and proportions are pretty close to the real thing. Basically imagine this shape with a more sculpted and vented hood, sportier front graphics, and less cuts down the body side. It's a quirky design, would definitely polarized people if it was an actual truck, but it's had some fans thus far due to how different it is.
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Interesting design, though I'm having difficulty seeing how that's a truck - I don't see room for a bed back there with how the pillars seem to taper in.
It sounds like you're actually considering how your vehicle looks, though, not just taking a ruler and drawing a few lines like Tesla did with the Cybertruck.
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1 hour ago, akirby said:
I believe the reason it looks funky is due to maximizing aerodynamics to reduce battery cost. They don’t have to worry about that on the Lincoln.
So it depends on how much that works and even if it yields a significant advantage - will people buy it if they hate the styling? They tried that to some extent with the CMax Energi to compete with the funky looking Prius but that didn’t work.
There's a difference between "ugly unique" and "attractive (or decent) unique"
C-Max fell under the former category, IMO - ugly might be a strong word, but it certainly wasn't attractive....
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On 11/10/2023 at 6:50 PM, rperez817 said:
It's not asinine, but BMW didn't do a good job marketing subscription based payment plans for heated seats and ultimately discontinued them, leaving only the fixed one time price for that feature.
Jim Farley isn't a fan of BMW's previous heated seat subscription model anyway. He wants Ford to focus on high value, customized subscription offerings for both fleet and retail customers. Ford CEO Jim Farley Dings BMW Over Heated Seat Subscription Model (fordauthority.com)
Please stop trying to justify what they did as...."marketing" related - it's a stupid concept.
I've outlined in different threads scenarios in which it could work - but none of them involve the blanket "feature X is subscription, period" approach.
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