Fuel-efficient cars?

Question:
How come all the fuel-efficient cars (more than 50 mpg ie: US gallons) have to look so f*cking ugly?

Answers:

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The designers live in their own worlds and never bothered to ask the consumer what they like. These hybrids barely have a better coefficient of drag than a standard fuel car anyway (Cd of Toyota prius - .26. Cd of Lexus ls - .26. just examples don't get carried away) and they handle like garbage, so i don't get the looks either. Prudes drive these cars anyway, buy a hummer just to teach them a lesson, lol.

Lexus or Mercedes? Which is better?

But seriously, it's probably a compromise between functionality and reliability because these cars are expensive to build and ridiculously expensive to repair, so they're small, ugly, made of tin foil to reduce weight and slice through the air to increase mileage all while keeping the sticker below heart attack levels (would you buy an $80k car that ran on tap water? how could you market that and hope to break even?).

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There small and realy unattractive.

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4 wheel drive problems?

While appearance is all opinion and will vary by the person, I believe a lot of the small cars and fuel-efficient cars are rounded and sometimes ugly because the smoother body shapes give the car a lower drag coefficient. I know cars like the second generation Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight were designed with that in mind. The Insight has covers over the rear wheels to help lessen the drag coefficient (wind resistance), and the profile/shape of the Prius was also done for a similar reason. The lesser the drag coefficient, the easier it moves through the wind, and the better mileage it gets.

How many people besides me have OnStar in their vehicle?

Also, some more fuel efficient cars might be made with lighter materials or have simpler designs to lessen the weight, also helping the mileage. The lighter the vehicle, the less the engine has to pull, and the better the mileage.

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There are a lot of butt ugly large gas hogs out there as well, what's so ugly about the Sentra, Civic, VW Golf, Matrix, etc....

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these electric supercharger induction kits that replace your air filter are they any good?

Because aesthetics have to take a backseat to aerodynamics. Most cars in general have *terrible* aerodynamics. The ideal shape for best aerodynamics would be a teardrop shape similar to an aircraft fuselage.

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How many seats do Ford Expeditions have?

the Corvette gets 28 miles per gallon
and looks pretty damn good

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