Ugly Cars Part II

The second reason that companies make ugly cars is, I think, bad management. So companies just make ugly cars, Subaru in particular. The Subaru Baja is one of the ugliest cars ever made. I think that it is inconceivable that anyone at Subaru thought that car actually looked good. The 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX is another hideous car. In fact, while not all of them are as offensively ugly as the Baja and Impreza WRX, there are no beautiful Subarus. I belief that the only way that this is possible is if Subaru management intentionally ignored the aesthetics of their products.

Maybe they got the idea that the looks of a car don't matter from Ford. For many years, the Ford Taurus was amoung the best selling cars in America. At the same time, it was incredibly ugly. Perhaps Fords success with such dreadful looking cars gave Subaru, Pontiac, and Nissan the courage to release their own awful looking vehicles.

Come to think of it, until recently, many of Ford's cars, exlcuding the GT, would make you give them a second glance. The Explorer and Expedition, stylewise, are not much more than giant boxes. Even their new Thunderbird made me cringe when I saw it a few years back. No focus groups could have told Ford and Subaru to release such dreadful designs; mistakes that big must have come from management.

While perusing the Internet, I have come to a conclusion: the vast majority of cars that are sold in America are very ugly. This aesthetic ineptitude, in my opinion, is caused by two factors. First, color choice. Why are some of these paint and interior colors even available? Everyone can see, just by looking at the cars on the road, that no one buys cars that are painted bright green and yellow. But, despite the fact that nobody buys cars in these hideous colors, auto makers still produce them. I know this because it is impossible to shop for cars on the Internet without seeing the piles of these ugly blobs posted on eBay. Nobody buys vomit inducing color cars except people who you hate.

Whenever you see someone driving a bright yellow car it is never a mother taking her children to school. It is always that same dumb white 17-25 high school drop-out male playing his bad rap or techno music loud enough to loosen your lug nuts. Personally, I think that the only way that even these people can tolerate that music is because they have already been deafened by their own stereos.

Auto makers and auto sellers heed my words: these people must be stopped. They give your company a bad image. Not one person ever looks at those jackasses and thinks to themselves, "yes, I want the car that that person drives."

Now, I would understand if it were only one or two car makers that built cars with these paint jobs. Then, you would just assume that they were trying to dominate the potentially lucrative douche-driver market. But, many car companies manufacture cars with these colors; until recently, even the very conservative and boring Audi made cars in bright yellow.

I will write about the second reason that so many ugly cars exist, auto manufacturer's management, in my next post.

Ironic Job Search

I had an unusually ironic experience today. Early this afternoon, I was speaking with a woman about a job I applied for. The interview was going well until it got near the end and hit a snag. Normally, there is nothing unusual about this; the whole purpose of job interviews is to separate good candidates from exceptional ones. But in this case, the nature of the problem stemmed from something I never expected. I was eliminated from consideration because I am in graduate school.

I had the skills, experience, and, if I can be so bold, personality that they were looking for. But, they needed someone in the next two weeks. Thus, because I will not graduate until May, I am still unemployed. I know that these kinds of things happen, but the whole purpose of getting an education to make it easier to get a job. I never thought that I would be more employable if I dropped out of school.