FRS Design Review
 

Not so positive design review.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/201...s/#more-461441

Is this the same site with the guy who just hated everything about the FR-S and preferred the Miata?

That blog post was tremendously hard to read... mentioning his three art history courses he took at three different colleges, "OMG SON", "DLO fail", among other snobbish and immature details. Is he trying to cater to the typical college frat crowd? It's hard to take him seriously as his critiques are muffled by his attempts to sound very knowledgeable.

Yep, same site. Here's their review:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVmpoT6RbHk"]2012 Scion FR-S vs. Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T vs. Mazda MX-5 - YouTube[/ame]

He does it for clicks. Stop giving him clicks.

After I started watching that video, I don't know how seriously I'm suppose to take him with that 'sparkly golden coat'...

... Who is he, Willy Wonka??! :bellyroll:

design is mostly opinion.

and I enjoy my own opinion.

Thanks for sharing. Interesting generational perspective. While insightful, the author writes in text-speak and doesn't seem to put much effort into more carefully articulating his analysis. I do wish he would've taken some time to compare the concept cars design cues and observe how they were watered down for production, as that would've helped him dramatically in explaining the soft "reverse pimple" where the front badge is located.

Whoever wrote that is probably a bit of a fairy. Not that they are WRONG per-say.. but they sure word it out that way.

The only thing he was right on about was the panel gaps around the front fender and A pillar.

Painful to read. My eyes were glazing over after the 2nd reference to surface-tension....really? Surface-tension?

I wanted to hammer my Uni PowerTank Pen through my ocular cavity with my coffee cup....

Stopped reading after "me likey." Sounded like a little child.

I refuse to click on this.

several quality control bits were true..but hardly surprising to see in a car priced at 24kUSD. Which in actuality was built under the pretense of 19kUSD if it weren't for the dollar to yen ratio bloat and economic tragedy befalling from the Tsunami.

Anyway, the authors design analysis is both wrong and right. In modern design, there are many no nos that the FRS/BRZ does. People in industrial design go bonkers over the little bumps, crevices, and lines that dont flow under a confined pattern. However, Industrial design Majors also sometimes lack the engineering and physics involved in designing a proper sports car, which requires CFD and real time simulations. This is why you see many people who study and claim to be in industrial design via automotive design pump out concept cars out of the blue with great good looking renders, but when you ask them what are the aerodynamic implications, they usually just scratch their head.

In the real world, artists and engineers will never see eye to eye. Especially when functionality at many times may not be the most aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

Seemed pretty neutral to me... And in some cases very positive. :shrug:

He considers himself a critic, so he will critique.

Some positive, some negative.

You could probably put a 1968 Ferrari California in front of him and he would find equal good/bad. It is what those who define themselves as critics do. I have been driving an Audi S4 for the last 4 years, and I can walk around that car with the same attitude of "gorgeous" and "WTF is that?"

Honestly, fake vents piss me off too. Make it functional or do something else. The Hyundai Genesis Coupe with all it's fake vents on the hood just looks ridiculous. At the least the fake vents on the FRS/BRZ aren't accentuated.