The new Maserati is hideous

[Egg Nog]

I've been trying to find something stylistically exciting about this car, but I simply can't. The hood bulge is lame. The front end looks like someone used the photoshop "pinch" filter on it. The rear lines of the roof are too abrupt. It looks decent from the rear upper 3/4s view but that's about it. The rear end is not terrible but seems uninspired for what's supposed to be a daring Maserati.

The grille makes the car look like a dustbuster. The whole fascia looks like one of those rice-boy headlamp conversions gone wrong.

If you put a different badge on the front everyone would agree with me. People only think it looks good because it's a Maserati. I can't get over the front. It looks awful. Among the worst production-bound Pininfarina designs of all time.

Rant over.

Edit: The front looks a bit like the SSC Aero. In a bad way.

[Pando]

If you put a different badge on the front everyone would agree with me. People only think it looks good because it's a Maserati.

I 100% agree. When I first saw pictures of it, I was shocked what they had done with the styling. I recently looked at the pictures again in detail and reached the conclusion is what I like about it is what I associate the badge with and with my assumption that it's a good car. I can't decide whether it's sad or funny that even Korean brands have done a better job.

[Egg Nog]

I 100% agree. When I first saw pictures of it, I was shocked what they had done with the styling. I recently looked at the pictures again in detail and reached the conclusion is what I like about it is what I associate the badge with and with my assumption that it's a good car. I can't decide whether it's sad or funny that even Korean brands have done a better job.

That's awesome that you can actually come out and say that. It seems like style should always be taken at face value so as to avoid bias.

[white devil]

That's awesome that you can actually come out and say that. It seems like style should always be taken at face value so as to avoid bias.

i actualy love the design...
the front looks realy agressive ..its a lot of improvment from the coupe..
i know its not the same car but it looks a lot cleaner and more appealing to look at

[Super GT]

i actualy love the design...
the front looks realy agressive ..its a lot of improvment from the coupe..
i know its not the same car but it looks a lot cleaner and more appealing to look at

agree I think this car is sexy

[drakkie]

Am i the only one that likes it ?

Edit:
It seems not !

[Ferrer]

I've been trying to find something stylistically exciting about this car, but I simply can't. The hood bulge is lame. The front end looks like someone used the photoshop "pinch" filter on it. The rear lines of the roof are too abrupt. It looks decent from the rear upper 3/4s view but that's about it. The rear end is not terrible but seems uninspired for what's supposed to be a daring Maserati.

The grille makes the car look like a dustbuster. The whole fascia looks like one of those rice-boy headlamp conversions gone wrong.

If you put a different badge on the front everyone would agree with me. People only think it looks good because it's a Maserati. I can't get over the front. It looks awful. Among the worst production-bound Pininfarina designs of all time.

Rant over.

Edit: The front looks a bit like the SSC Aero. In a bad way.

I mainly agree. The Coupe wasn't perfect but next to this...

To me it looks like a Lexus LF-A. And that's not a compliment.

[Ingolstadt]

I too mentioned that it looked very Lexy from the front, the conservative styling is far from what it should've been.

To sum it up, it's good and well accepted because it's a Maserati, it's ugly too because it's a Maserati. It would've looked great if it were Mazda RX10 or Toyota Supra 500000 or Honda S3000 ..... well, you know what i mean.

[Rockefella]

I've been trying to find something stylistically exciting about this car, but I simply can't. The hood bulge is lame. The front end looks like someone used the photoshop "pinch" filter on it. The rear lines of the roof are too abrupt. It looks decent from the rear upper 3/4s view but that's about it. The rear end is not terrible but seems uninspired for what's supposed to be a daring Maserati.

The grille makes the car look like a dustbuster. The whole fascia looks like one of those rice-boy headlamp conversions gone wrong.

If you put a different badge on the front everyone would agree with me. People only think it looks good because it's a Maserati. I can't get over the front. It looks awful. Among the worst production-bound Pininfarina designs of all time.

Wrong. This car is sexy. It's got elements of the birdcage, and of traditional Maserati coupes, which is a hard thing to screw up.

[Pando]

To sum it up, it's good and well accepted because it's a Maserati, it's ugly too because it's a Maserati. It would've looked great if it were Mazda RX10 or Toyota Supra 500000 or Honda S3000 ..... well, you know what i mean.

Yes and no. I would be very disappointed if a new Honda S2000 (which was the first car that came in mind when I saw pictures of the front), Supra or RX* would look like this.

But you do have a point, if on the other hand a Chinese company would have designed this most people would look at it from a different light and a debate about its looks would most likely not arise.

Wrong. This car is sexy. It's got elements of the birdcage, and of traditional Maserati coupes, which is a hard thing to screw up.

Apparently they did. I love the birdcage but I just don't see it in this.

[shockwaveracing]

Wrong. This car is sexy. It's got elements of the birdcage, and of traditional Maserati coupes, which is a hard thing to screw up.

agreed, i personally love it, but each to their own on the subjective matter of style...

[Pando]

It's got elements of the birdcage, and of traditional Maserati coupes, which is a hard thing to screw up.

Apparently they did. I love the birdcage but I just don't see it in this.

While reading this thread, I realized I wasn't thinking of the same Birdcage.

[Ferrer]

While reading this thread, I realized I wasn't thinking of the same Birdcage.

I don't see any elements of Pininfarina's Birdcage in it either...

[Egg Nog]

Rocke: It doesn't look anything like any Birdcage I know of. The fact that you bring up the Birdcage also shows that you're not really ignoring the badge at all. Even if it did recal historic lines, it's not a necessary or sufficient condition for it to look good. Pretend it's a new Hyundai concept, then look again.

[Rockefella]

Rocke: It doesn't look anything like any Birdcage I know of. The fact that you bring up the Birdcage also shows that you're not really ignoring the badge at all. Even if it did recal historic lines, it's not a necessary or sufficient condition for it to look good. Pretend it's a new Hyundai concept, then look again.

Silence jabroni.

Birdcage:





Coupe:






Me reckons they looksa similar with the treatment of the front, and the styling of older Maserati coupes mixed in. On a side note, I like how the number of opinions have changed from the original thread, they're all followers I tell 'ya!