Love: Mercedes-Benz CLS55/63 AMG - I guess I could've talked about other cars, but I love this car's looks. Some might say that it's droopy or banana like, but to me, it's swooping and shapely. It's just so elegant and design oriented compared to every other car in the Mercedes-Benz line up. Even the SLR. SLR's a tarted up hooker compared to the CLS. Everything is just the right shape and size. And When you get up close to it, it hits you. How low it is. How shallow the DLO is. The surface treatment on the side is just perfect, unlike the Tonka Toy-like bulges on the new MBs. The lights flow with the lines, the thin 5 spokes are insanely simple looking yet so elegant. I don't know how anyone could choose a regular E-Class over this. It's just simply the prettiest German car in the last ...oh 30 years? Or is that too much?
On a side note-I love BMW's Corona headlamp rings and the taillamps' "glow".
Hate: Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano - It's just so ugly. They took design cues from the Enzo (whose design that I never cared for) and stuck them on an awkwardly proportioned GT. It looks good on the F430, but not on the 599. The rear end looks fat. Those single taillamps don't help. The vertically stretched headlamps gives it a stupid permanently surprised look. The slats and the ducts and vents I'm sure are all functional, but they ruin the shape. Those flying buttresses, which I suppose are cool in idea, look terribly out of place. Roofline is weird. And the whole stance, that arse up-in-the-air look is just hideous. I've seen this car in real life in all the conceivable angles and there is absolutely nothing I like in how it looks. I guess even Pininfarina makes mistakes sometimes.
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