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Tesla’s European and Chinese customers are staying away in droves
(arstechnica.com)
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Dunno why reports continue to blame the sales on the styling of the cars instead of the fact that the very public CEO of the company, who is kind of inseparable from the whole brand, is polarizing to say the very least.
Tesla cars look fine. Genuinely they do. They've stuck with their own design language so that their cars are apparently "Tesla" on the road, and that kind of brand recognition is something designers spend their whole lives trying to create. You recognize them, like an Apple product. Sure, 15 years ago, everyone was trying to copy Apple and Apple's own image suffered a bit from design oversaturation, but they pushed through it, waited out the trends and for the competition to move onto the next thing, and held their ground and kept a good-looking, consistent lineup. Tesla is basically the same.
Tl;dr: it aint the cosmetics
Teslas are fucking shit cars made as cheaply as possible. People literally burn to death in them trying to find the door handle.
Yes, the CEO is a human piece of shit, but the cars shouldn't be bought regardless.
The fact that they’ve had multiple vehicle designs that break when it rains is nuts.
Eh they look like trash but are so common now and the other manufacturers have made copy cats. But you're right.
I disagree but that's just my opinion. I love Ramsian design and the (exterior of) Tesla's do it well. The new Prius is good too but gets a bit too futuristic to call it Ramsian.
Either way, my point is that most of the copy cats have moved on to other designs, "trend chasing." Yeah, a couple years ago every automaker was ripping off Tesla, but I don't see that anymore, they're going towards a more 80s angular look. What I'm saying is that Tesla's maintained their design language really well. That's not a fault, it's a success. Tesla cars are apparently Tesla on the road, just like an iPhone is obviously an iPhone and not one of the thousands of iPhone copycats that were on the market ~10 years ago or how a Starbucks is obviously a Starbucks, and not one of the thousands of wood-toned internet cafes that came up a few decades ago.
New Tesla cars look a decade or more old, what are you on about.
They look like Tesla cars from 10 years ago, which is what I was talking about with maintaining brand design identity versus trend hopping, which is an admirable thing. Like Apple or Starbucks or IKEA, whose product design is instantly recognizable and has been established for decades. I'm talking purely from an industrial design standpoint here.
Apple looks totally different than it did 10 years ago.
But you’re right about IKEA, they haven’t changed shit
Why do you think modern Apple looks totally different than it did 10 years ago? Genuine question. Even with all the criticism of Apple I've ever heard, "design inconsistency" has never been one of them.
Totally different and design inconsistency are very different
I understand that the iPhone is basically a slab of glass, like most other phones
This is around 10 years apart for the “desktop” mac
The latest version of their OS’ is inconsistent as hell. At least for iOS and iPad. It’s a massive half-assed rush job with no thought put into it. It’s very un-Apple-like.
Agreed with macOS 26, those new borders on the finder icons? WTF Apple? That weird edge gap? The fucking corner radius?
What’s next, round windows?