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GTPlanet, it's time to talk cars yet again. This time, it's about art.

Now to me, I am an art person. Everything from a sporty compact to a European superexotic, I've come to love almost all types of cars. If you know me, you know that most American cars nowadays lack any real style (except Dodge and maybe Ford). This time, allow me to pose the question, and you can re-quote this if you like:

"If you were in charge of redesigning cars to look more stylish and less unattractive, which car would it be and what changes would you suggest?"

I'll start.

New Ford Mustang? No, I like it. New-model Pontiac GTO? No, I like that too. Dodge Neon SRT-4? I like that as well. Saturn Ion? Hell yes. I think it needs some plastic surgery bigtime. Saturn cars are noted more for their drivability and affordability. But their styling is pretty ugly to me, and possibly the only saving grace is the Saturn Relay coming out soon. The Saturn Ion, at first, seems like the most decent looking Saturn. But when you look at it, you see a small grill, big headlights, bland side styling, the rear bumper is just as ugly, and the brake lights are in a sense... alright. I guess it's making an impact in the sport compact tuner market, but for the most part, it could have been much better. Even "Car and Driver" blasted on this car saying, "We waited seven years for this?"

I don't have restyling ideas at this moment, but Saturn needs to make it look more decent instead of an ugly-ass waste of four tires and an engine and metal. I'll come back with better ideas, but it's now your turn.
 
Lincoln Continental. It could be a badass gangster style car, but it right now is a hearse/limo. They should redo it as a big, slab sided, suicide doored, like those concepts they had.
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Fill it full of supercharged 4.6 motor goodness, paint it black, and watch the 300C crawl into a little hole in the wall. And produce it with those outrageous rims. The make the look, and are entirely approriate on such a car.
 
I'm not big on Acura, so I think the RSX could have had better-styled lights (front and rear), and I am not a fan of that grill. Even though this car came first, it looks too much like the Mazda 6's grill. Maybe if the lights looked more like the Toyota Chaser (which looks too much like a BMW), maybe a front grill like a Nissan Skyline, and tailights like the newer Honda Accord (2-door), it would be a nicer-style car. The rest of the car is fine.
 
Right now I would totally restyle everything being built by Mitsubishi (except Evo VIII), everything built by Toyota, and everything built by Nissan except the 350Z and possibly the Maxima.

Toldly. From the ground up.
 
I would amputate Chris Bangle's hands so that he couldn't design anything as pony as the BMW Z4, 6-series, 5-series and 7-series.
 
I didn't want to go there, but I'm glad somebody did.
 
anything by chevrolet. and I mean EVERYTHING. why larry shinoda is dead? we need him at chevy. all the cars chevy is putting out are hideous. hell. maybe all GM products should enter this ground up redoing.

Cano

just ask pontiac and the new sunfire.
 
Oh, the new Sunfire needs some double bypass heart surgery, plastic surgery, and mass prayer to get to be a beautiful swan. When the first Sunfire came out, it was a sporty and fun little car. The back is alright on the new Sunfire, but the front has got to go. There is actually hope for the new Sunfire, because it doesn't need as much as a makeover as the Pontiac Ass (Aztec) needs. I think only the front needs to be styled. I mean, that's what I think.

Cano, you're an American car lover. I was surprised to see you get on Chevy like that. So what else can use a face lift? Let me see... oh yeah. The new Cavalier. Chevrolet talks about "an American revolution," so does the new revolution involve killing new cars that were sweetly styled? I'd hate to see how the next Camaro would have looked if it were still in production. That SS thingie with 400+ hp looks more like the RX-8 with the front grill. But I think the Camaros of late 1990s and early 2000 would have been nice. The Impala of 1993 and 1995 make a nice widebody that is still favored. The Impala tries too much to have lights like the Nissan Skyline, but even the Skyline looks better than it. I think the new Viper needs only a slight makeover. It's a bit too muscular on the sides, and the back lights could be a little nicer. But, the new Viper is alright. It would be better if the Viper could return to GT racing. I would LOVE to see Team Oreca with red cars with white stripes and those yellow lights. Timeless design.
 
I like the cavalier and new corvette a lot. Not a big fan of ford's recent styling changes, or the rest of chevys. I like the way cadillac is moving though, they seem to have caught a niche for themselves and have a very distinct identity that is not at all unpleasant.
 
Originally posted by skip0110
Lincoln Continental. It could be a badass gangster style car, but it right now is a hearse/limo.
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It was cancelled before ever seeing the light of 2003 - thank God.

Saturn Ion? Hell yes. I think it needs some plastic surgery bigtime.
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What - to remove the plastic? Hahahaha, I'm so damn funny.
 

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