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It's not a matter of if people think it looks nice or not ... it's branding.
Tesla lost the brand image.
You would never see a Bentley or Rolls Royce dramatically change their grille.
Tesla should have kept the nose and, most importantly, the headlight LED pattern. That should be unique to Tesla, not the Model S.
Hugely disappointed that they lost their way.
Tesla lost the brand image.
You would never see a Bentley or Rolls Royce dramatically change their grille.
Tesla should have kept the nose and, most importantly, the headlight LED pattern. That should be unique to Tesla, not the Model S.
Hugely disappointed that they lost their way.
The Tesla brand is not embodied in something superficial like the shape of the front of the car. It's much bigger than that: it's about being a superior, high quality car that is also electric and long range and promotes sustainable transportation. That is "the brand".
The Rolls Royce grille in fact has changed dramatically over the years and is simply an ornamental piece of metal that has no important function.
The Rolls Royce grille in fact has changed dramatically over the years and is simply an ornamental piece of metal that has no important function.
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Joules Verne
Member
Similar effect on me, but opposite... Now the Model S nose cone doesn't look as bad to me as it did prior to the X reveal.
JohnSnowNW
Active Member
They've only made one in-house vehicle, and if the nose cone and headlight pattern were their most distinctive features...then the way was lost before the journey began.
Well, I really like the new nose and glad the pointless grill is history. I'm looking at possible images of the Apple car. One has a grill and it looks ridiculously old fashioned. The others do not. They look strange but for other reasons.
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Then you don't recognize merchandising, marketing and branding.
There's nothing superficial about the front end of the Model S. It's instantly recognizable to all other Tesla drivers.
RR grille may have changed over the years but it's still instantly obvious. The Silver angel is still there. As is the logo.
Tesla should have maintained merchandising consistency.
ssq
Member
The more educated and informed you get, the more ridiculous these half-assed-attempts from click-bait articles look like. I bet what the author did here was googled for apple car/icar and plastered those on this PoS article (confirmed !)
Canuck
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AustinPowers
Total Smeghead
What does it have to do with looking like an ICE? The 1997 Taurus is an ICE and has an equally uninspred front which looks like a weird fish mouth just like Model X does.
Tesla doesn't have to design a grille, but even a low-cw BEV can surely look more structured/featured than this sterile emptiness of a front.
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Well you wouldn't get away with that over here for very long ;-)
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Thankfully, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder :smile:
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Sounds like a great idea for the aftermarket. I bet Tesla won't change it or offer different versions.
For me it would not be a showstopper, but I definitely wouldn't like to look at my car from the front if ever I owned an X. Just hope that the Model 3 iteration will bring back something a little more inspired. Again, I don't need a grille, fake or otherwise, but I appreciate a design that looks inspired. This one unfortunately does not.
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Sorry, but where does it have well defined lines? It looks as if they put masking tape over the gaps of a Model S style faux-grille and painted the whole thing body-coloured.
Or to be more precise, it looks as if they took a Model S front and just put body-coloured camo over it, as if there was a faux-grille still there underneath. Just weird.
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n00bie
Member
it looks feminine...definitely not aggressive looking like model S (now, when going back to model S nose cone, it looks kinda old).
AustinPowers
Total Smeghead
+1 Absolutely agree.
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Or this:
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That is exactly the problem: it does look like it has one, just plastered over. I agree with all those who can't understand why - with a clean sheet to begin with - Tesla didn't come up with a really unique and beautiful design. Futuristic, no grille, yet appealing. Still, there's hope for Model 3 - several years worth of time to design something special yet more generally appealing. Which it has to, if it is intended for a large audience. The Model X after all is even more exclusive than the Model S in terms of who can afford one.
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+1 again and again
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Ok, this is off-topic, but being an ornamental piece is a very important funtion of the grille in a Rolls Royce. More so than I think in any other marque.
myke3000
Member
I like it.
The idea is that the curved hood edge where the "T" is was curved to be the top of the nose cone. I think there just needs to be something to complete the 'thought' and bring symmetry to the curve. Otherwise, without the nose cone, the curved hood front is unnecessary.
Way to much like a mustang for my taste. But strangely it made me like the X better
Chasedrgc1223
Nearly Insane
I'm not sure... It makes the Model S look like every other car, whereas the nose cone really is a defining, sporty feature. I'm not saying removing the nosecone would destroy the look, it just has to be done right.
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