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Old 03-27-2009, 03:59 PM   #4
RC45
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Originally Posted by HeilSvenska View Post
That's not very attractive. The lines look a mess and the bulbous rear light protrusion are just ugly. Has Pininfarina lost its touch? Is this a one off? It looks more like what Zagato would design, not Pininfarina.
Remember, their new target market is the still well heeled and cash-flush ostentatious middle eastern customer, so the new designs will cater for the more brash connoisseur...

Nothing subtle or refined about the new cars if the customer wont either demand or appreciate it.

This is natural design evolution and you can see it as a product might appear hitech/contempary when sold in europe, then dulled down and made more conservative/classic for the US market and then re-appears more gawdy and boystous for the middle eastern and far eastern markets.
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