Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars

• oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s great Citroën is making a small, cheap EV … but why did they make it look like a cross between a Fiat Multipla and a pug?

  That thing is ugly.

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Why is this $8,000 car so terrible,” he lamented, without a trace of irony.

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It isn’t “terrible”, it’s ugly because of design choices – specifically that Multipla style “forehead ridge”. It would have cost nothing to design front/back body panel without it. A less complicated body panel would look better.

      The price point and form factor has nothing to do with it.

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  • venoft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All cheap cars are made ugly on purpose to make the expensive models more attractive to buy.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That thing’s front and back are exactly the same. It saves on fabrication costs to use the same part but it gives a weird look.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Turns out there are after market mods for that. Spoiler, other front, flame paint job

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• lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What a compact thing, also charges to full in just 3 hours from a normal outlet 🤯

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