It happens.. a lot of things have been "upside down" in car design lately... cars are beginning to "frown" instead of "smile"... IE the front air dams have the points facing downwards instead of upwards. It's good design in the sense that it is new and innovative, and it's boldly breaking away from the norms (both the triangle butts and the frowning fronts), but it's going to take people a while to get used to. Whenever radical changes like that are made, it starts as just that.. a radical change.. then it grows on people to become the norm. Take, for example, the Dodge Ram trucks.. Dodge was the first to do the "18 wheeler style" front, with the massive grille and the smaller lights on the side. I remember the first time I saw it I thought it was fugly. But it grew on me, and now I love the design, and it has become synonymous with Dodge's design language. And it's becoming the norm in truck design.. the new Ford super duty trucks have the same design style, and it's spreading.

Give the triangle butts some time. New design is like getting a new car.. you have this new, awesome thing, but it takes time to see how far it will go, how well it will perform... right now auto designers have this new "look" going for cars.. they're getting a lot more angular and edgy. But they don't know how much edge is ok and how much is too much. The only way for them to know is to look at customer feedback and sales numbers, which take a while to accumulate into any kind of usable data. It's something new they're trying, and in the coming years, they'll tweak designs and smooth here and edge there and they'll be making cars that are absolutely sick. A car that will be made in 2020, I can guarantee you, you would look at now and say "that is SO ugly", because it will have design aspects that you're not used to, and there won't be a logical design sequence. BMW is the best company, imho, to look for with design sequencing.. you see the generations of 3 series, for example, and you see them maturing and evolving. But if you take a way old school 3 series, from the 70s for example, and put it next to a brand new 2007 m3, the connection is lost. Design is just as much about evolving a concept as it is creating a new concept.

Cliff's Notes - Give it time.. they'll figure it out and make cars that are truly sick.

And yes, I do intend on having a hand in it.