Dislike current design trends

[Kalispel]

Originally Posted by atombaum

I like my 2008 4-door Yaris sedan (black, auto, 53,000 miles). Always liked the "4-doors with a trunk" style. The Toyota Echo even had that body style I believe.

I am not a fan of the current design trends on everything from the most expensive cars down to the cheapest. Did Audi start it with the wide open grilles? I am a big Toyota fan and think the 2015 Corolla and Camry look decent, but my main gripe is that Toyota does not offer a 4-door Yaris with a trunk anymore, and the new Yaris hatchback grille looks, well, I just don't care for it. Too radical for a basic puddle jumper in my mind. Does everything need to have the same design queues in the entire automotive world? Can't someone come out with a simple, uncomplicated looking front bumper (again)?

Just had to get that off my chest and see where it will go. Maybe there is news that I haven't heard about "less is more" being the new trend?

Thanks for reading. Comments?

I think that Toyota has been hit and miss with the gaping grill/bumper designs.

Some of the Lexus designs are solid, and the Camry isn't bad either - though I'm not a big fan of the LED running/fog light strips on front bumper of Camry.

The latest Corolla isn't attractive at all, especially in the S trim, and it has a really wimpy/cheap looking stance due to a variety of poor design decisions.

The Scion iA has perhaps the ugliest front I have ever seen - well except for that new fuel cell car that Toyota unveiled recently. The front of the iM is also pretty horrible, and Toyota should have stayed truer to the Toyota Auris design from overseas.

The 2015 Yaris SE looks great to me (especially in-person, and in white), overall - though the L/LE not-so-much, mostly due to the different texture/materials of the front grill area, 15" wheels that look too small on the 2012+ boxier sheet-metal, lack of fog-lights, old-school, basic headlights, etc. If did take a bit for the 2015 front design to really grow on me though - especially since close-up photo and camera lens distortion doesn't begin to do it justice.

I'm also a fan of the 2007-2011 Yaris Sedan aesthetics - it's just a good looking little sedan to me. The 2007-2011 hatches are also cute, but don't usually shine except with the S skirts/lips on them, with 16" wheels and lowered just a little bit. The 2012-2014 Yaris looks decent also (with 16" wheels), but has nowhere near the extra design refinement of the 2015, overall - at least to me.