Hyundai Coupe fully undisguised!
11-09-2007, 06:49 AM
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The overall proportions are nice, but nothing out of the ordinary for a coupe. I like that the picture frames the car behind a Mustang because there is a sense of size.
Looking at the car, it is almost impossible to figure out whether it is rear wheel or front wheel drive. That's not bad if you're building a front driver. I am not sure that I would proportion the car that way if it were a rear driver. It might be nicer proportioned if the front wheels were pushed farther to the front of the car to decrease the front overhang. This way the proportions of the car would let the viewer know that the car is a rear driver...almost as if the car had a sense of motion to it created by the cabin being pushed back and the front being longer and lower.
The photos don't indicate much about the rear or front, but from what I see those profiles like nice if not distinguished.
Now for the bad part...the flame surfacing and the parallel character lines. I really think that it has gotten out of hand on some designs, this one included. Call me old fashioned, but I like character lines that draw the eye along a detail of the car or to a design point on the car. Here, the character lines start as parallel lines behind the wheel arch and then fade off to an intersection at the C pillar. Why? What is the designer trying to communicate with this? I understand the sculpting of the car along the rocker panels which gives the car a lighter look. But these lines appear to have no aesthetic function.
To compound this ill-advised intersection, the scalloped look to the bottom of the rear window seems utterly without purpose, at least based on these pictures. I might keep the lower character line but reorient the top one to the C pillar and straighten out the dip at the rear window. This would create a gentle upsweep to the rear window back to the C pillar. This would be less dramatic but more coherent.
Just my opinion.
Looking at the car, it is almost impossible to figure out whether it is rear wheel or front wheel drive. That's not bad if you're building a front driver. I am not sure that I would proportion the car that way if it were a rear driver. It might be nicer proportioned if the front wheels were pushed farther to the front of the car to decrease the front overhang. This way the proportions of the car would let the viewer know that the car is a rear driver...almost as if the car had a sense of motion to it created by the cabin being pushed back and the front being longer and lower.
The photos don't indicate much about the rear or front, but from what I see those profiles like nice if not distinguished.
Now for the bad part...the flame surfacing and the parallel character lines. I really think that it has gotten out of hand on some designs, this one included. Call me old fashioned, but I like character lines that draw the eye along a detail of the car or to a design point on the car. Here, the character lines start as parallel lines behind the wheel arch and then fade off to an intersection at the C pillar. Why? What is the designer trying to communicate with this? I understand the sculpting of the car along the rocker panels which gives the car a lighter look. But these lines appear to have no aesthetic function.
To compound this ill-advised intersection, the scalloped look to the bottom of the rear window seems utterly without purpose, at least based on these pictures. I might keep the lower character line but reorient the top one to the C pillar and straighten out the dip at the rear window. This would create a gentle upsweep to the rear window back to the C pillar. This would be less dramatic but more coherent.
Just my opinion.
11-09-2007, 10:40 AM
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I think it looks fantastic. That tail (in profile) looks very similar to an Aston Martin V8. The side profile is G35/7, Lexus IS, and probably a bit of Eclipse or Accord.
Either way, great looking car. For the price, if this is RWD, I'd almost certainly take it over the V6 Mustang. I'd have to hold off on what I'd choose with a V8.
The V6 Mustang is a piece of crap, so that's why I can say I'd definitely take the Hyundai. It'd have to work to be worse than the Mustang.
Either way, great looking car. For the price, if this is RWD, I'd almost certainly take it over the V6 Mustang. I'd have to hold off on what I'd choose with a V8.
The V6 Mustang is a piece of crap, so that's why I can say I'd definitely take the Hyundai. It'd have to work to be worse than the Mustang.
11-09-2007, 10:53 AM
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wow, I think it looks great. Very impressed. I think it's funny that people accuse hyundai of knocking off other manufacturers...I think it looks like a natural evolution of the old tiburon. Besides, it's not like the IS, G35, Accord, Camry are exactly paragons of styling innovation.
