Why do all cars look similar/same/cloned now?

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Only thing different will be the badges and some trim. After awhile we will all be riding around in cars that look like they are from the movie Sleeper w Woody Allen.
 
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Optional equipment.
The sexatron stand up sex cabinet is standard equipment.

Disclsimer, dont climb in there by yourself and try to use it. Bad things happen.
 
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moparmat2000 said:
Nice pic, add the cool 69 ish nose, but the front doors need to be about 6" longer, and the rear doors need to be welded up, and the handles shaved, also make it a true hardtop with 4 roll down windows.

I saw the 2007 charger when i had money to buy, was upset at what i saw. I was expecting something closer looking to a 68/69. I owned both a 68 and a 69 years ago. I told em that aint a charger. Wrong number of pedals on the floor, wrong number of doors cut into the body. call it a monaco and sell it to the cops. They must have took my advice. Went and specced out an 07 mustang GT. Shoulda waited for a challenger but i love my mustang. Sitting behind those old timey 60s looking gages i feel like Steve McQueen in bullitt.

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I agree. Mustangs never have looked like "everything else". Very nice.
 
pishta said:
and whats up with everyones HUGE taillights? They are square feet of red lens, or worse: Chrome art deco cheapness with a black backdrop housing the same red lens covered in a corner shaped lexan dome. You want to know what looks classy? Not cheapness, eg. BMW 2002. Simple....And Dodge, your "California Raisins sunglass'" looking rear taillight hoop is over the top.
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Hey I like the California Raisins LOL
 
There are really two reasons car look the same ie horrid:
Safety regulations
The Italians have lost it & are designing ugly hulks so nobody has anything good to copy.
 
Ddaddy said:
I will stick with my ‘06 SRT for a modern vehicle. At least it has some style...
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i run one of them as a winter beater
3.5 V6 with all wheel drive and winter tires

Ddaddy said:
And my SRT will get a bit more style after I finish installing the custom facia I had made for it....

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that reminds me of that firebird conversion that have out for the new camaros

(the air intakes n the bottom look like the headlight segments on the 'bird)
 
Ddaddy said:
I got it from Danko Reproductions. I worked with them to design it and got the first production unit available to the public. I also got the custom tail light assembly.

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Kodos for stepping up and designing an option. Question: Why did you retain the generic flush mount taillights? The 'surface mount' taillights would have been awesome!
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pishta said:
Kodos for stepping up and designing an option. Question: Why did you retain the generic flush mount taillights? The 'surface mount' taillights would have been awesome!
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Mainly because the ‘68 lights wouldn’t work with the shape of the rear of the car since it isn’t indented like the rear of the one you showed is. We tried it and it just looked odd. They still offer it as an option though.
 
barbee6043 said:
To take part of the response,...yes I got my license in '64. I agree... to me the early cars of the 30', 40's were in general not anywhere near style wise what the cars were of the 50's, 60's,70's,..Those later ones are the cars I mentioned as to what people waited eagerly to see in the fall. Now take a 32 Ford and make a rod out of it, then I beg to differ!!
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I admit to being an old fart. 70. I do not see many cars built today that have any styling, just a vary, vary few. Car companies work long and hard to put more "technology" in them for the sake of higher prices, and meeting the demands of modern buyers. ie... Your generation an later.... I am not a modern buyer!!!!! I could not afford one, an IF I had that kind of money, it sure as hell would not go for a new car!!!
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I'm only a couple years younger than you and I agree today's cars (or at least the majority) all kind of look alike, are really ugly or both. Even the new Jeeps look like some Japanese minivan. Not that a new car is in the budget anyway...
Agree that all the government-mandated safety crap is taking all the fun out of driving.

One "feature" of new cars (and trucks/SUVs) I rather dislike (and that no one's mentioned yet) is the huge consoles they're putting in them. Makes the interiors feel claustrophobic. Most don't really serve any purpose as far as I can see, they just take up a lot of space.
I don't think you can even get a truck with a bench seat anymore.
 
Oaktree said:
I'm only a couple years younger than you and I agree today's cars (or at least the majority) all kind of look alike, are really ugly or both. Even the new Jeeps look like some Japanese minivan. Not that a new car is in the budget anyway...
Agree that all the government-mandated safety crap is taking all the fun out of driving.

One "feature" of new cars (and trucks/SUVs) I rather dislike (and that no one's mentioned yet) is the huge consoles they're putting in them. Makes the interiors feel claustrophobic. Most don't really serve any purpose as far as I can see, they just take up a lot of space.
I don't think you can even get a truck with a bench seat anymore.
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I bought a new Ram in August, and it has a bench seat with a folding center console, standard cab.
 
adriver said:
I don't know.
But I wish headlight on new vehicles would be regulated to a standard height.
Tall vehicles with headlights that shine in my eyes.
Make the vehicle any size wanted, but put the headlights were they don't blind me.
No higher than a standard car maybe.
What is the reason to have headlights 4 feet off the ground?
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There used to be laws against that. A very creative friend back in the old country "lifted" his F250 4x4, WAAYYYUP lifted. Local constable pulls him over, first thing he did was take the tape measure to the front of the truck and measure the height of the headlights. Out came the ticket book. He drove the beast to Las Vegas and was cruising the Strip, Cook County Sheriff Deputy pulls him over, "I don't know what this is, I don't want to know what this is, but get it out of my county right now and never bring it back!" That was in the middle 70s when law enforcement actually enforced traffic laws.
 
[QUOTE=" but get it out of my county right now and never bring it back!" That was in the middle 70s when law enforcement actually enforced traffic laws.[/QUOTE] 1970 SW Ga, I 75, county fuzz pulls my 68 ford pickup over, been running 95 for an hour headed back to school. I told him thank you!!

Good ole days, trucks looked like trucks, drove like trunks, and were priced like trucks. $ 3100 new! in 1968.L OL
 
barbee6043 said:
1970 SW Ga, I 75, county fuzz pulls my 68 ford pickup over, been running 95 for an hour headed back to school. I told him thank you!!
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:rofl::rofl::rofl: I had one of those experiences myself in my Ranchero after burning the tires through the first 2 gears and half way through 3rd :rofl::rofl: I'll put you on my Christmas list Deputy. Thank you very much. :rolleyes:
 
Unconventional said:
There used to be laws against that. A very creative friend back in the old country "lifted" his F250 4x4, WAAYYYUP lifted. Local constable pulls him over, first thing he did was take the tape measure to the front of the truck and measure the height of the headlights. Out came the ticket book. He drove the beast to Las Vegas and was cruising the Strip, Cook County Sheriff Deputy pulls him over, "I don't know what this is, I don't want to know what this is, but get it out of my county right now and never bring it back!" That was in the middle 70s when law enforcement actually enforced traffic laws.
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That scene from American Graffiti comes to mind.
But the problem was too low.
Don't know why though.
 
barbee6043 said:
I guess now days it is "the window tint is too dark"!!! Or bumper is too high?
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I got told that clear plastic license plate covers were illegal. "It the law here in CT. I could give you a ticket. Just fix it", said the 25 year old 'trooper'. I asked him if he had trouble reading the plate. "No. But it's the law", was the answer. Who is the moron that comes up with this ****? (I have not fixed it either.)
 
69_340_GTS said:
I got told that clear plastic license plate covers were illegal. "It the law here in CT. I could give you a ticket. Just fix it", said the 25 year old 'trooper'. I asked him if he had trouble reading the plate. "No. But it's the law", was the answer. Who is the moron that comes up with this ****? (I have not fixed it either.)
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It’s illegal because it can interfere with the license plate readers in police cars and on traffic cameras. Many states have made them illegal now.
 
Have a look at this shitfull thing its called the Juke made by Nissan here in Australia. Very painful on the eyes.

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