Grill Trends
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Huge grills have been on cars since the beginning. Here is an old 1960 Chrysler for example and this was decades after large grills.
As car companies try to each have a corporate face to make it easy for the public to identify themselves and since all these designers go to the same schools, I don't expect it to change anytime.
As car companies try to each have a corporate face to make it easy for the public to identify themselves and since all these designers go to the same schools, I don't expect it to change anytime.
Last edited by ydooby; Jan 30, 2013 at 01:48 PM.
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Anyone noticing a trend? (subject: big mouth grills)
I don't dislike it necessarily, but it seems to be an ever increasing design characteristic - the huge mouth grill. A lot of them being of similar shape.
This is just a partial list too.
This is just a partial list too.
Last edited by -J-P-L-; Jun 13, 2013 at 07:33 PM.
After reading this and viewing the pictures, I really haven't noticed all the different car manufactures coming this far with this type of design. I like several of them, and some of them are just BLAH. I do indeed see a trend coming together. Who was it, who had the first one like this?
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After reading this and viewing the pictures, I really haven't noticed all the different car manufactures coming this far with this type of design. I like several of them, and some of them are just BLAH. I do indeed see a trend coming together. Who was it, who had the first one like this?
The new Avalon has a BIG mouth grill too.
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Well it does have a large mouth grill but not in the style of the examples above that are also tall, with a black painted bar that splits it in the middle (the functioning bumper).
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After reading this and viewing the pictures, I really haven't noticed all the different car manufactures coming this far with this type of design. I like several of them, and some of them are just BLAH. I do indeed see a trend coming together. Who was it, who had the first one like this?
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No. I don't agree with that. Tuna-fish grilles don't necessarily make pedestrian-impacts any safer. They are just a marketing/styling gimick to try and make cars look different from the past when, IMO, there isn't any need to do change just for change's sake. 