So I was doing my daily rounds of reading blogs and on Jalopnik I saw the released pictures of the new Dodge Challenger. And was immediately let down.

I’ve been keeping a mental note of how American car companies seem to half-ass their designs. They seem to be doing a lot of throw back style cars where they make a new car look like their classics, which in itself is kind of lazy I think but it’s not such a big deal to me because that seems to be the trend with a lot of things. If you can bring back Cabbage Patch Kids and Transformers, why can’t you bring back the Mustang? The problem is the way these companies seem to spend much time on creating nice detail… nice lines here and there that are reminiscent of the classic car yet modern and artistic… then you get to the rear end of the car. What happened??? Did you guys just get tired of designing?

The new Dodge Challenger has been doomed to the same fate:

Nice.	Nice.	Nice.
WHAT THE!!! The Delorean doesn’t look any more modern than this thing.

Here are some other sad examples of what I’m talking about: