60年来10大最丑轿车
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还记得1958年吗？当时的美国总统是艾森豪威尔；若望二十三世在那一年加冕为罗马教宗；14岁的鲍比•费舍尔在那一年赢得了美国国际象棋冠军；猫王在那一年应征入伍。 也就是在同一年里，美国汽车厂商生产出了过去60年里外观最丑的轿车。它们都有着船形的车身和巨大的尾鳍，车身包裹着花哨的装饰，大量使用了电镀元素。当时设计师们一直想在设计上有所突破，结果却与现实渐行渐远。 克莱斯勒公司（Chrysler Corp.）1957年取消了原有的产品计划，匆匆上马了一条新生产线，生产了一款大尾鳍、车身三色调涂漆的新车，从而在竞争中占得先机。当时这种设计风格被称为“新潮外观”。通用（General Motors）、福特（Ford）和其它美国厂商纷纷仿效，于是“新潮外观”的轿车越来越泛滥。许多车型的造型改变对车辆质量产生的影响是可以预见的，首当其冲的就是克莱斯勒。 大多数顾客并不喜欢这种款式。随着造型更为内敛的外国车纷纷抢滩登陆，再加上艾森豪威尔时代的经济萧条令人们囊中羞涩，因此才刚到1960年，“新潮外观”就成了昨日黄花。大尾鳍不见了，让汽车看起来像一台老式唱片机的巴洛克式镶边也不见了。 1958年的故事可以给今天的汽车厂商们提个醒：千万不要盲目跟风。如今的汽车厂商也是争先恐后地把各种时尚的款式创意杂糅到自己的量产车型里，比如四门轿跑、LED灯、车身防擦条等等。不过新颖的东西很快就会成为大路货，然后就会被人们用滥了——由此导致的结果就是廉价出售。 在此谨为大家列出来自那个被遗忘的年代的10款最“雷”的轿车。可以看出的当时设计师有多么天马行空，而且当时美国人对汽车的品味也达到了战后的最低点。 |
Remember 1958? Eisenhower was president, Pope John XXIII was crowned pontiff, 14-year-old Bobby Fischer won the U.S. chess championship, and Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army. It was also the year American automakers produced the worst looking cars of the last 60 years: great tail-finned land barges draped in ornamentation and dripping in chrome. Designers had been trying to outdo themselves for so long, they'd lost touch with reality. Chrysler Corp. got a jump on the competition in 1957 by tearing up its product plans and rushing out a line of cars with big tail fins and three-tone paint jobs. It was called the "Forward Look." General Motors, Ford, and American Motors hurried to compete. Excess was piled on excess. So many design changes had a predictable effect on quality, with Chrysler suffering the most of all. Customers stayed away in droves. Tastes were changing as more restrained foreign cars made inroads and the paycheck-pinching Eisenhower recession took hold. By 1960 it was all over. Fins were all but gone, along with all the baroque frills that produced cars like rolling jukeboxes. 1958 should serve as a caution to today's automakers as they rush faddish styling ideas -- like four-door coupes, LED lights, or body side molding -- into production. Novelty quickly leads to the commonplace, and then to overuse -- with concomitant results for sales. Herewith, ten egregious design examples from that forgotten year when designers ran wild, and American motoring taste hit a post-war low. |
