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Subscribe to this threadThe Roewe 550 is not beautiful
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joe23521 @ Nov 14th 2007 10:39AM
Looks pretty good to me, actually.
When you dissect a car into the most basic of geometric shapes, you're bound to be reminded of other cars' basic geometric shapes.
VP @ Nov 14th 2007 10:45AM
You don't need to disect this car into anything to see the Concorde grill, Camry body & the Altima grill. Just another hodgepodge of others cars sewn together by the chinese.
tekdemon @ Dec 1st 2007 9:16PM
VP, while at first glance I too thought Concorde, I don't really see the other things you claim it knocks off, and I own a Camry, lol.
To be honest though, since every car manufacturer basically knocks off design cues from other car manufacturers, it is pretty hard to make a fully original car that isn't hideous. Just try drawing your own car design (a REALISTIC car, not some crazy future-mobile with wire wheels or whatever) and you'll soon realize that pretty much all the possible shapes that aren't hideous are probably already used by some other car.
Oh and upon closer inspection the headlights are actually different from pretty much every other car out there, even if they initially give you the impression of Concorde. The real question is whether Roewe will develop this style across all their models as their new design language, since if you keep making drastically different designs people will just continue to claim you're knocking off x or x or x.
By the way, the rear looks like the Lexus IS' lights to be, but again upon closer inspection they're different enough that I wouldn't say it's a knockoff. Honestly it's more unique than most cars out there, Chinese or not, since all the cars you mentioned it as knocking off have also share design cues with a lot of other cars.