[Andrewksu]

i too am a designer and am measured by the final output. I have left companies before when they chop designs to nothing.

examples of bad design from GM

Aztek!!
Lumina
there is something wrong with the proportions of the new Silvarado, especially the base trim
Impala
Malibu
and Monte Carlo

Basically all of their sedans for the last 20 yrs have been crap that are not sport, family, muscle, but some soup of nothingness. Sales of these vehicles prove me out, especially if you take fleet purchases out of the mix.

The interiors are bubbly, ham fisted, and usually poor selection of materials and textures.

I actually rode in a newish Ford Explorer last night and there was significantly more leg room (front and back) than a new Tahoe, tell me how that works??

Ford is not much better with sedans, but the Japanese cars walk all over us.

on a good note, the new corvette is outstanding, and most of the new Cadillacs are great.

[SoCal Pubbie]

As a designer, you know that a car’s styling is influenced heavily by the overall package handed to them by the engineering group. This is not to excuse disasters like the Aztec but perhaps to partially explain such a visual fiasco. As for the Lumina, I don't think it so much ugly as just unispired. I actually think the Malibu, at least the five door Maxx, was pretty clean.

What I object to around here is how the ugly Japanese cars get a pass. The Avelanche has been savaged around here, for example, but there’s never a peep about the even uglier Ridgeline.