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    Default are sharp lines ever gonna come back?

    i mean likes 80s and early 90s car styling,im tired of everything being rounded...like old BMWs,RX-7s,C4s,Ferraris,Lambos..etc

    anybody else feel sameway?

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    i like both.. some sharp lines i hate from back in the day. but some i like. What i do miss about the old cars is that they look alot more meaner, and more intimidating.

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    yea,it just seems like all cars now are bout the same

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    Yeah everything is becoming way too damn rounded. Example.
    Mk2 GTI.

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    deff the old VWs

    i mean i drive a rounded car..but the RX-7 deff looked better with the sharp lines

    but C4s are the shitdizzle


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    The MK5 Jetta/Rabbit looks like mush. But we're getting one anyway lol.

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    i do think that sharp boxy cars are coming back a little, but just with the big luxury cars. compacts are gonna get rounded off more and more. i just hope the small mini cars (fit/yaris) dont take over the compacts..than we would be left with rounded off 2dr eggs, and 5 door wagons..

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    yea,the caddy's are bringing it back with the CTS,STS, and XLRs

    i could careless bout normal cars...i want sharplines on sports cars


    also i want pop up lights

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    Quote Originally Posted by HypnoToad
    yea,the caddy's are bringing it back with the CTS,STS, and XLRs

    i could careless bout normal cars...i want sharplines on sports cars


    also i want pop up lights
    Hells yea for some pop up lights ive been in love with them since I was tiny.

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    thats right,pop ups are the best...

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    Quote Originally Posted by HypnoToad
    thats right,pop ups are the best...
    errr yeah, nothing like adding un-needed additional weight and making things completely unaerodynamic

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    Quote Originally Posted by speedminded
    errr yeah, nothing like adding un-needed additional weight and making things completely unaerodynamic
    how their flat,no drag

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    sharp lines are bleh, they are inefficient designs that are just not needed anymore. newer RX7 is better, newer civics are better then the sharp lined ones. Thats just the way it is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HypnoToad
    how their flat,no drag
    when they're up?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPOOLIN
    sharp lines are bleh, they are inefficient designs that are just not needed anymore. newer RX7 is better, newer civics are better then the sharp lined ones. Thats just the way it is.
    May be better for aerodynamics, but I hate how they look. Just like I hate cars with fixed headlights. I love the look of pop-ups and if a car came stock with pop-ups I'd never mod it to give it fixed headlights.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tinton
    May be better for aerodynamics, but I hate how they look. Just like I hate cars with fixed headlights. I love the look of pop-ups and if a car came stock with pop-ups I'd never mod it to give it fixed headlights.
    x2...i hate fixed lights on RX-7s look gay as hell

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    I prefer the in-betweens. The model generation right after the box cars and right before the rounded ones. Better options than the box and easier maintenance than the rounded.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TypeRPersonality
    I prefer the in-betweens. The model generation right after the box cars and right before the rounded ones. Better options than the box and easier maintenance than the rounded.
    What years were those? I'd say about 1980-1986 was boxy cars, 1987-1993 for slightly more rounded cars, then after that much more rounded spaceship-looking cars. I like my 1988 Fiero GT, its a good blend of boxy and rounded:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tinton
    What years were those? I'd say about 1980-1986 was boxy cars, 1987-1993 for slightly more rounded cars, then after that much more rounded spaceship-looking cars. I like my 1988 Fiero GT, its a good blend of boxy and rounded:

    i love that car


    and also cars like my old S5
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    i dont know about other cars but the last gen of camaro's had about the same coefficient of drag. the only difference was 0.001.

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    That VW up top is hot as hellllllllllllllllllll

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