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Harajoshi @ Jan 8th 2008 1:48PM
The headlamps are stolen from the veedub Phaeton, and inside those headlamps you can see the shape of the headlamps from the tiguan. BOOOH!
psarhjinian @ Jan 8th 2008 2:28PM
Everybody steals from everybody else. Get over it.
The reason cars look like other cars is that:
* People have common preferences, especially in a common time period. This is called "fashion": it's why every pant maker in the 70s made bellbottoms, and why many cars made today have multi-lens headlight clusters.
* Break out too much and you get slapped with the ugly label. Remember the homebrew aero Civic from a few days ago? Or the Aztek? Or, heck, the original Saab 99?
I have to say I'm getting really tired of the "xxxx looks like they ripped yyyy from zzzz!" posts. Yes, some cars look like other cars. When there are functional requirements of a design there's really very little you can do to differentiate the end-product and, at some point, you're going to end up resembling something else. Anything that's truly unique usually has functional reasons for being so (like a supercar or uiltramini) or is a blue-sky concept that will never see production.
Harajoshi @ Jan 8th 2008 2:58PM
dude, they copied it, this is not fashion, its buisness, companies pay for design a lot of money, so when GM steals the design they should pay for it or it is a crime.
Ligor @ Jan 8th 2008 2:59PM
yeah, why don't you just look at he 2008 Sabb 9-3, these headlights and grill are on that car
Guenther @ Jan 8th 2008 4:43PM
Dude- look at a Phaeton- the lamps have a nearly horizontal lower edge, in stark contrast to the sloped edge seen here. The Phaeton's are also much wider-typical 3-projector layout.