Well there's something else just as bad happening now. It's just as nonsense, looks just as out-of-place, and is appearing on just as wide a variety of cars. I don't even know what to call it. It's the rear bumper curve. Like this:
All of these cars have one feature in common. Their rear bumpers have that goofy concave curve going on where they flow down from the tail lights. They don't follow existing bodylines, they don't naturally or gradually add length behind the lights. They just...oooops, we need some padding for collisions, let's just chisel out some of the bumper and stick on there.
For contrast, this is how bumpers look when they work with existing bodywork:
I won't even talk about the seventybillion different lines going on in those rear corners of the Elantra (one body line leads into the top of the tail light and disappears, while another appears from nowhere in the sheetmetal below the tail light and turns into our chiselbutt...while a third sort of blobs its way purposelessly around the wheel arch and disappears somewhere in the door...WTF is GOING ON!?). Okay, so I will talk about it. It's terrible.
Chiselbutt must go. I don't want to see it anymore. Chris Bangle proved that concave design elements rarely work. This one is no exception to that rule.
Now that I've pointed it out, you're going to notice it EVERYWHERE. I apologize. But this evil must be confronted.
