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Originally Posted by humfrz
Are you saying I looked stupid for eight years, while driving my NC Miata .....  |
No, that thing just looked like a chick car. It wasn't particularly stupid-looking. I figured men who drove them were secure enough in their masculinity that they didn't mind driving a feminine car to get the driving experience.
This new one is particularly stupid-looking. The lines are awkward, and the "face" on the front looks like a stoner saying, "Dude, what?"
And Mazda knows they screwed it up. If you look at the main Miata page on the Mazda website, there's not a single pic of the hideous front end. You have to dig into the gallery to see what the front end actually looks like. And even then, they have all the thumbnails of the front end cropped so you can't see it clearly. They know it's ugly, so they hide it.
Again, driving an ugly car is okay if the performance is there. But the comment was made that the MT reviewer would likely judge it on aesthetics as well. Aesthetically there's no contest.