Best Looking Affordable and Practical Cars = Ford?
 

VEHICLE STYLING ONLY - nothing else considered

Right now in the year 2013 I would argue that the best looking affordable vehicle lineup belongs to Ford (Fiesta, Focus, Fusion). For the affordable car sector nothing else (imho) is close to having as attractive, practical, and affordable cars.

Here is my list of best looking car lineup for the affordable car sector. Sports cars are excluded, performance is not taken into consideration, and the sub brands are left out. Your thoughts?

1. Ford (Fiesta, Focus, Fusion)
2. Hyundai (Sonata, Elantra, Veloster)
3. Dodge (Charger, Dart)

Most boring - the cars below scream bland and boring appliance to me in terms of styling.
Chevy (Sonic, Malibu, Cruze)
Volkswagen (Jetta, Passat, Golf)
Toyota (Yaris, Corolla, Camry, Matrix)
Honda (Civic, Accord)
Subaru (Impreza, Legacy)

I'll play

1. Honda
2. Subaru
3. Ford

Never been a fan of hybrids but I like the concept of the Volt and that Cmax is lookin' good to me. As a disclaimer I drive 130 miles a day. It'd be nice if the first 40 of those were all electric the remaining 90 were at 45mpg.

Strictly based on look, I'll give that to the Koreans, the KIA cars looks very good for what you pay for them. Toyota and Honda's are very bland as usual...even Honda knows it with their emergency 2013 civic redesign. Fords are very nice looking but I still like the Kia's / Hyundai's better. Subaru's are nice but nothing exceptionnal. Nissan's cheap offerings are pretty ugly (sentra and versa).

Chrysler and Chevy's designs are all over the place...though I like the cruze but it's still pretty conservative.

My $0.02

I will be perfectly honest here, I havent seen anything from any manufacturer thats affordable and good looking. Cars have been increasingly ugly year to year and I blame the Civic for all of it. Honda came out with a cheap ugly car that made decent gas mileage and people bought them by the millions. People can blame American companies for the ugliest cars but the trend now seems to be fuel economy first design second. I'll save my money and buy something a little more expensive than buy any of the affordable cars...unless you lump my FRS in there.

the new chevy's are quite nice. but gosh anything pre 2012-13 is fugly. ford's styling is great. we sell hyundai's and they are really nice. we also sell toyota and they still are bland and honda is even worse. kia is great. dodge lose. subaru wins.

ford -focus/'13 fusion
toyota- camry/'13 scion tc
honda-ugly
nissan-ugly
kia/hyundai-genesis
chevy-'14 impala/gmc terrain
chrysler-charger/dart
subaru-brz
mitsubishi-fail
VW-'13 jetta

thats kind of it in a nutshell....

I agree that Honda (and Toyota) started the bland trend. At least the 'Merican cars finally ended their belief that cheap cars (i.e. compacts and sub-compacts) should be piles of :poop: and started making them competitive.

That new fusion is just sex... Like Aston Martin meets affordable, and it's one of the few cars that look good both in pictures and in person.. Of course everyone has their own opinion, but the new fusion and focus look great

So does the new impala coming out.. Though I'd love to have the impala interior in the fusions body..

My mom has a new sportage and I was surprised with the whole thing until I drove it and the lack of power.. But that couldve been changed with a V6.. Otherwise the styling of it and the new optima look really nice... I love the maxima, but that's pushing the affordability part, the new Altima is a step up but not quite there..

Nope. Sorry, I just don't see anything that has come out recently that's affordable that makes me go "Hrmm that's not bad." The really shitty thing is that the car companies can make affordable and sexy cars but fail time after time, because the xbox generation will buy Nissan Cubes and Scion xB's because they have zero taste.

Ugly:

http://0.tqn.com/d/cars/1/0/o/d/2/13fusion_side.jpg

If this somehow makes it to production not too shabby:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dcf8bgHapk...Carscoop11.jpg

Hell i don't even like the new BMW's and Audi's. Bland seems to be the flavor of this generation of cars. At least when you can spend $50k+ there's cars worth looking at and wanting to drive. If a car blends in with the background of other bland, featureless cars then it's just that...bland and featureless. It will definitely be interesting to see what Nissan and Mazda have coming up in response to the overwhelming reaction to the FRS/BRZ and who knows maybe some American car company will dust off the creativity and make a desireable sports car under $26k that isn't just a low power version of another car.

Also....Blech!:barf:

http://media.caranddriver.com/images...-s-429x262.jpg

So strange that that car and the new Viper are technically the same brand...guess they spent all the creativity on the Viper and just copy/pasted the Jetta with different lights for the Dart....

Sexy:

http://news.topmotors.com/wp-content...10-Monster.jpg

Also;

http://img2.netcarshow.com/Ford-Fusi...llpaper_01.jpg

Does not even come close to this:

http://encarsglobe.com/data_images/m...tin-db9-14.jpg

I don't understand how anyone can like the styling of Audi or BMW. The all look like bland and boring. I do have a soft sport for the A5 and 6 series (couple only), but that is it.

I would say...

1. Hyundai
2. Ford
3. Nissan

Mainly most kids are loosing interest in cars these days and don't have much money/desire too. So most will settle with Cubes or xB's or whatever is new and cheap enough to drive. Kids these days.

Not sure if I posted an article on here (somewhere in this forum) before on this type of subject.

the viper isnt a dodge........

And award for the most uninformed post of the day goes to you sir!

http://www.drivesrt.com/

Tell me it isn't a dodge...it's like saying Acura isn't a Honda...do you really think that SRT engineers aren't Dodge engineers?

srt is now a standalone division. different engineers, show me a Dodge emblem please........

1. Toyota
2. Subaru
3. Honda

Lol does not even come close? Sure a malibu is much closer! Seriously, style wise, they are almost a coupe/sedan family.

Fanboy much? Those are pretty much my bottom 3. Even with FR-S/BRZ pulling up 2 of those 3.

The Koreans are taking the Japanese to style school right now, that's for sure!

One this is for sure, the domestic auto industry almost completely failing was the best thing to happen to it. Period. All have better small car (and soon medium car) offerings than any have had ever.

Gm small cars are still junk

I'll bite...

Most exciting visual line up:

1. Hyundai
2. Kia
3. Audi
4. Suzuki, yes, suzuki, even though they no longer sell in the US, their styling cues have been consistantly unique and have become very very good looking.

Anything beyond that and were getting into price ranges that exceed ford and gm's ability. The most boring lineups have been consistantly ford, gm, and dodge coming in last place. Thank god they seperated the viper from the dodge badge. The only saving grace for dodge right now is the challenger, and thats purely aesthetics.

its funny you say that about the challenger. They plan to scrap it next year and bring the barracuda back. The challenger is the only car that has not been redone or changed even slightly since its debut in the mid 2000s.

Hey now, some people like the conservative styling. Attachment 24958