2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT

Re:2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT by function_seven on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @01:51PM (#20337592)

No accounting for taste, but I look at the current Accords and Civics and think those designs are gaudy and try-hard. Tons of creases and moldings and little blings everywhere.

This design looks really nice to me. Not too weird, looks a bit like the original CVCC, and it's clean.

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Re:2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT by auiya on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @02:24PM (#20337921)

I completely agree with you, I'm not a fan of them either. Those cars are designed to blend into the crowd, that's why they sell so many of them. But crowd-pleasing designs like that are quite difficult to develop. So why make a polarizing car your EV flagship? Is it so they can later say "oh well it didn't sell very well, EV must not be worth it"?

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Re:2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT by function_seven on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @02:28PM (#20337967)

Good point. I confused my idea of good with what’s actually popular.

There’s got to be some reason they do it. Back when hybrid cars were new, Toyota’s design for the Prius was polarizing. But it worked for them, and they established that model as “the” design for hybrid cars for some time.

So differentiation seems to serve a purpose, but I can’t say exactly what that is.

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