When I was walking around Downtown San Francisco, I ran into cheaply ugly looking car in front of a Luxurious hotel….At least, Audi which was parked behind looked way more respectable to me.
I looked at the vehicle carefully and I recognized that it was Latest Cadillac XTS….which is the largest Cadillac 4 door sedan today !!
Cadillac does not look good in front of luxury hotel??? What is happening?
Let’s look at the design…..well….it is hopelessly bad….it looks like big fat Toyota Prius or something…At least it is not the proportion of Luxury 4 door sedan.
Badly sloped front windscreen creates poor drivers position, also rear windscreen is causing limited head clearance at the rear seats.
Doors are too flat and it makes it looks dull and fat.
Popped up rear end…
This design is completely ignoring basics of basic of car design.
So, this is what I did by using Adobe Photoshop…..
- Lifted up Front windscreen to create better front space.
- Lifted up Rear windscreen to get extra head clearance at the rear seats.
- Dropped down the popped up rear end.
- Extended height of door windows to improve the vision.
- Added press line on doors to give some accent.
That is how I did….basically, all I did was related to improve cramped interior space and at the same time, it is improving the styling.
But….unfortunately the base was too bad…..to me it looks like Prius turned into Camry….I still don’t think it is enough for luxury sedan.
It has been a year since this model came out, but I have seen only a few times in Vancouver and it was the only one I saw in San Francisco !!
Do you remember that Cadillac used to be the most popular luxury car and saw everywhere in the United States…?
It is based on Chevrolet Impala and costing more than double, but it looks much worse than Chevy…..that is the reason It is not popular at all.
Last 2 decades, GM have been trying to copy Japanese. I don’t think anything wrong to learn from something…but they are making big mistake.
“Each design has a right size.”
Prius looks OK (Personally I don’t like it) because of its size. If you transplant the design into bigger size, usually it will not work.
That is the risk of copying Japanese design. They have to be very careful…..
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