Hyundai has stolen the Camry's design

[liquidsilver]

Originally Posted by Camread

which german cars did lexus/toyota copy from? that's what i thought, can't think of one huh.............

1989 LExus LS400.........copied same year MB S class.
My 98 GS copied the dual quad headlights from Eclass MB.

Ofcourse I like the Lexus designs better but they did copy the germans.

[MenaceSQL]

^^Ditto.

Originally Posted by Camread

which german cars did lexus/toyota copy from? that's what i thought, can't think of one huh.............

Where have you been all these years? You should step into reality every once in a while. I do love Toyota/Lexus vehicles but gotta tell how it is instead of denying it. Lexus has been known as a copycat car company mainly being accused of stealing styling cues from MB. Just Google "Lexus" and "copycat" or something similar to that extent and you'll get your info. PWN3d!!!

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Yeah, I mean, you can say the same about my bodykit designs but I'll let you know, I design everything from scratch. Yes, you may seem something similar, but I design it because I've never seen such kit before. I also incorporate aerodynamics and downforce on my designs. So of course I might borrow the same aspect designs you see out there. That's because it's functional, but it's different to compare my experience with car designers because it's such a broad market, it's quite difficult to come up with a radical new design that looks nothing like you've seen before. Pinifarina (Ferrari's main design firm) comes up with radical designs that no one seen, but how many designs have you seen from them in the past decade besides the customed Enzo they recently did?

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to the kiddies bitching about Hyundai, i'd like to make you aware of something: as time goes on, individuality and creativity is going out the window. it's just like movies and current music - they're rehashing the same stuff because they CAN'T come up with something different without having it cost a shit-ton of money.

at one point, Toyota and Honda looked vaguely similar, as well. car makers - ALL car makers - are trying to go with the trend of what people will buy. as long as it's not such a blatant rip from another brand, they'll be able to sell it.

hell, even if it is, if they're not sued by the originating company they'll probably be able to sell it, too.

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It's just so funny how you guys never mentioned the Chinese companies similarity. I'm pretty sure you guys seen the miniature versions of such cars.