I just don't understand why car designers think it's OK to make ugly electric cars.
The craziest example is the i8 vs the i3. The i8 is lovely but the i3 is beyond ugliness. It's the same designers trying to build for the same line of cars. A regular BMW 3-series is no uglier than a 5 or 7-series.
Tesla built a beautiful car in my eyes. They took the look of an Aston Martin from what I see.
Then in a similar fashion as converting the style of a 7-series into a 3-series, they've managed to shrink and simplify the design whilst keeping the look. It's ridiculous that other car companies can't do this with electric cars.
I know it's pure vanity, but the Tesla is worth more simply because you don't have to wear dark glasses and a hat to drive it.
It's the same reason that I believe the Prius sold so well over other hybrids. A Hybrid Civic or Hybrid Fusion just looked like regular cars. Nobody looked at the tiny badges so nobody knew they existed.
You see a Prius, it's ugly, but you know what it is right away, an economical hybrid. People who didn't know asked WTF is, and the car kinda sold itself. I think Toyota knew that the people lining up to buy them would not care about how good the car looked. They just knew that the Prius was the weird car they saw over and over that was a Hybrid.
I mean, most people don't even know the 1st gen Prius existed. They look like a regular car. They still got great economy, but IIRC the car didn't sell nearly as well as the newer, more ugly Prius.
