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Something is making our cars uglier, and we can do nothing about it!
In recent years several new laws and regulations have been introduced, and it seems they are ruining the aesthetics of all-new cars! To make matters worse, some of the rules and regulations that have been introduced will alter cars so much, that some relatively new cars have had to go out of production altogether!
In this video, Mat will run you through 10 aspects of cars that are having to change due to these new rules. For example, all new cars have to come with AEB sensors. This stands for autonomous emergency braking. Now of course this is important to help cars avoid collisions, the problem is, it results in large boxes having to be added to the front of new cars, and they just look awful!
But that’s not all! There are now regulations for the size of door mirrors, too. In the past you would expect to see small cars come with compact door mirrors which still served their purpose. However, in the modern day, door mirrors have to come of a certain size, and we think these mirrors just look oversized on certain cars, further ruining the aesthetics!
But of course, one of the biggest law changes that is changing new cars is the banning of internal combustion engines. Previously, the grille on the front of a car was a great way for manufacturers to show off their identity, but the removal of petrol-powered engines means the grilles aren’t required, so manufacturers are now adding plastic grilles which just lend themselves to ruining the car’s aesthetics even further!
The question is, which of these laws and regulations do you think has ruined cars the most? Let us know in the comments!
The max height of the front headlights is a godsend of a law. Too many times im being blinded by a pickup truck with lights higher than 6ft high!
Yeah only braindead truck owners are mad about the max height
almost all of these are good laws preventing injury or death. And designers can design great looking cars around these laws - they just can't be bothered to.
i'm pretty sure that won't take effect in usa, but i'm glad that the squatted trucks are banned
If the lights are mounted high, they should be pointed more downwards.
The cutoff line should meet the road a certain distance in front of the car.
On all cars (in Europe at least) you will find a sticker on or near the lights with a percentage number, ( like -1.5% )
This indicates how much the lights should be pointing downwards, and will vary with the height of the lights.
Most of them don't even have a need of a truck. They don't use them for work but instead just daily commute.
Tbh it would be better to aim this outrage at the car manufacturers rather than the laws. Nobody is forcing these companies to make half of these designs look so bad. They just don't want to take a risk on making big redesigns so they're just trying to cram these new things into old designs in as cheap a way as possible.
Problem with DRL's is the idiots who drive around at night with them on but zero lights at the back, completely oblivious.
I've always felt that was an issue with the cars not having Auto lights. My last 3 cars have had DRLs and auto lights. The Audi even told you in the virtual cockpit if it you had manually turned the lights off and it thought it was too dark. When I've previously driven my wifes car, which has DRLs but no auto lights, and full dash illumination all the time, its pretty easy to forget.
I'd argue that if manufacturers are going to fit DRLs, they should fit auto lights.
@@bdavbdavbdavbdavWe have safety systems like Lane keep assist that need turning off every cycle of the cars ignition so why isn't it the same for auto lights? The auto lights should also be tied in with windscreen wipers where lights are turned on if wipers are activated even during the day.
@@stevecade857 I'd fully agree - I've never been sure why Auto Lights isn't just the default position. The last couple of cars we've owned have turned the lights on with enough rain. My issue was with cars with no auto lights at all, and DRLs.
You have to be an absolute moron to think your DRLs are your headlights at night
I feel like they should make a regulation that says DRLs can project forward but not onto the ground as much, so drivers can't see at night and turn on their lights
It's not the law that makes cars ugly. It's the company. They're just not bothering to design any of these things to look good.
No, it is the law
Tesla has that feature that works even better and it doesnt look like that
Oh if the engineers could argue with you
I would’ve disagreed with you until seeing examples of the automatic brake sensor boxes on the front. Ewww. Car companies can do better
@@josipvekic6169 Teslas don't exactly look good but supposing they do, they don't need air intakes like ice cars so not really the same.
I dunno, I think a lot of these are reasonable laws and it's just the manufacturers fucking up. My Suzuki VItara has the front radar neatly hidden behind the Suzuki logo, the rear lights are not on the trunk door but on the bodywork like they used to be since forever, and larger mirrors are a godsend. DLRs being designed ugly is, again, on manufacturers, the law doesn't say they need to do weird shit with them. And that's how it goes for pretty much everything on this list.
Most of the new cars: cheap inside, ugly outside.
And also sounded equally terrible inside of the engine.
Name one?
@@krane15 BMW 5 series.
@@krane15 Vw cars got cheaper interior than before. Tried a merc CLA it was so bad, I laughed out loud. Same for the base E classe, and everything below. Volvo feels much cheaper inside than before, XC60 and under. I had over 40 cars, also petrol head so always driving, trying new stuff, been at the Nurburgring many times and so on... If I want good quality and sporty amazing feel, then Porsche. If I want proper interior quality, reliability, luxory and 10 years of warranty, then Lexus. Much better interior quality then the 3 german or Volvo. And I had 7 volvos, but not any more. MG is a cheap chinese EV brand now like many others. And you can add many many more to this list.
you really needed to ask that? lmfao 😂
No, it's definitely car designers masking cars ugly. Not the regulations. The first car is a prime example
yup
I love the design from the old bmw and new ones aswell, i Just cant afford new ones thats why i drive the old f22 and not the new g42🥲
Aswell an old e85
If i had the money i only would drive the new Models 😞
People still buy these cars just to say that they own an expensive car. Even if they're uglier, the auto industry has successfully convinced us that cars are a status symbol, so people will buy these cars to satisfy their egos. They have no reason to change it if people don't stop buying.
The law never ruined the Cybertruck, that one comes ruined from the factory!
Also selfdestructs. The wheel covers destroy the tires. LOL
Haha ha
That's why I like to call it CyberTURD! 😂🤭
😂😂😂
Hilarious people who call Cybertruck ugly while they drive around in some boring samey box on wheels!
Hiring unqualified people is a problem for many organizations around the world. Qualified people would be able to fix all these issues without destroying the design of the car. We are seeing this lack of HR hiring skills from car makers to Boeing to the government. And in some cases the work performed by these unqualified individuals is actually dangerous.
Important to note that the unqualified people are usually those in management. The engineering teams of car manufacturers are usually super good, but the management needs to cut costs everywhere.
Ford with the infamous Powershift is a good example. The engineers literally told the management that the transmission will not last, yet they didn't care.
But... Diversity is our Strength?
It's bio leninism. Organisations promote based on loyalty and nepotism, so they discriminate against highly competent people since they can go work anywhere. And yes it's race related. Huge numbers of Indians promoting each other regardless of competence.
You do realize that HR doesn't hire anyone right? Employment offers are initiated by the direct manager.
Government intervention plays a huge role generating a lot of the issues in design, development and manufacturing of many modern consumer goods.
@@rich7447 huh? HR almost always does the screening, which means they're actively involved in the hiring process. What are you even on about?
"We'll never get the Tesla Cybertruck sold here officially"
Good.
Yes!
We hate new cars!
I don’t mind some but yeah more problematic and we have no choice to be different
people like you who cant afford a new car is bound to hate them 💩
Alpine A110? Lotus Emira? Caterhams?
Don't hate the car manufacturers, hate the regulation, aka EU...
@@SSavolainen Exaclty, car manufacturers don't have much choice, sadly.
1:10 Brother UUUGGHHH!!! 🤣🤣🤣 nice little add on 😂
Lfr😂😂😂😂
Brother Hoblos in the editings 😂
"Brother UUUGH!" is an absolute Internet Legend!
@@yusufs.3797Brother Hoblos?
Lmfaooo 😂😂
The restomod business is going to really boom. No touch screens, no extra costs for all this stuff to go wrong, get in the way or distract you when driving. Older cars are going to rock. Restore rather than recycle.
My wife and I have already decided my next car is going to be the previous model of my current car. And we gonna spend a lot more on maintenance and rebuilding the car rather than on depreciation.
Older cars look better, drive nicer and don’t have as much useless crap in the interior. Oh, and you can actually look out of their large windows.
Factory five soon for me! 😊
@@autobootpilootAlfa Romeo Junior is like Mazda Miata with Jumbo size.
@@yamakasi5792the VW Golf VI.R sadly has better shapes than Audi Q5.
😊 6:21 trying to 😅😊😊
Spats are in there to reduce air pressure, effectively lifting the air away from the wheel arch, it also reduces the amount of dirt and potentially stone chips along the body work.
The sensor in the S63 AMG is actually a LIDAR and is only equipped if you order the level 3 Drive Pilot, so in most markets like UK you won't have this sensor.
It's hardly a niche case though, just a very noticeable one
poor BMW design team haha
BMW looks like they teamed up with the Yugo car company.
@@jonwear9791what is Yugo car company btw?
@@purwantiallan5089Company from Balkans
Have you seen the BMW Concept Skytop... just saying.
Dude, they just crossed 100k cars on sale for Q2
numbers don't lie, that's why they keep there identity. it's a BMW for example
I'll forgive them if they make the BMW pig snout grill illegal.
Even the 1967 Corvette C2 has better car design than 2020s BMW Models.
I LIKE IT ON THE M4
I agree those HUGE BEAVER TEETH
Destroy the look of the car . I left BMW after 25 yrs due to bad design .
Now Porsche although they also update their car but they don’t wreck the look .
@@purwantiallan5089 The C2 also killed the occupants and pedestrians in a slight bump. What's your point?
I wanted to write the same. What's wrong will all of that in the video if we have BMW's grills...
BMW sales after the intro 📉📉📉📉📉📉
Tell that to the sales figures.
@@reidwaanwookay482I did
BMW sold more cars than Mercedes and Audi in 2023.
@@richardlabejadue to price drops and insanely cheap finance offers .
@@richardlabejaalso have you seen the state of new BMW drivers? 😂 They all look the same, turkey teeth, tattoos and really tight tops not to forget them square shaped beards 🤦🏼♂️
The disappearance of Toyota GR86 is the saddest news I learned by watching this video. A fantastic car
"it's about to get worse, the safety regulations are about to get even stricter"
Spoken like someone with the most messed up priorities ever.
shut up nerd
Mazda managed to incorporate the censor in the front badge 👍
Most manufacturers are pulling parts from shared bins to save money
Which is a win-win situation, cuz:
1- it doesn't ruin the look of the car
2- putting stuff in badges is ooooollllllddddd, I have seen stuff like this for more than 20 years, I mean, look at older VWs with the tailgate handle built-in the rear badge, as well as BMW's 6-series parking camera. So it's not hard neither too expensive to put stuff in badges, so in these cases, manufacturers are just lazy.
They should sensor that censor, oh wait …. That makes no cents
Toyota has done that since 2009 with the Prius lol.
@@TheGamingNorwegianSubaru also with even the Impreza WRX 2010.
Aeb saved me from getting rear ended. Was queued in traffic after a bend. Lady in Volvo comes round corner. She was so shocked at the aeb nearly face planted the windscreen 😂
“Is that a toyota or have a bought a tupperware”😂😂
The law isn’t making cars uglier. The carcompany’s designer team do. They clearly fail to accommodate car designs to the law for YEARS! All the parts you pointed out really look like afterthoughts
It's ironic that the EU seems to hate cars but European manufacturers make some of the most exciting cars around.
the eu doesnt hates cars what are you talking about?? we love them thats why we make them better, if the eu hated cars then the eu could just ban all cars and build more public transport stuff
@@Stiegelzeine he means the EU institutions, not the people in Europe, and he is right the people who make the laws for us do hate cars and try their best to make it mandatory for new cars to be uglier and worse than before
unfortunately the EU institutions are dominated by the car lobby too
It’s coz most people in gov are old dinosaurs who don’t like loud noises or anything fun…. So they fo what they old as wants
@@hashfreshtodeath The problem with noise is that you can't close your ears and to most people it's disturbing. I'd prefer if traffic was as quiet as possible but blind people disagree, hence we have those spooky artificial sounds of electric vehicles at low speed.
That has been a fact since the early 2000s, cars became fat and heavy with big pillars, terrible shapes and lines...
Aka significantly safer
@@BeefIngot egh... significantly is a big exaggeration.
Also as the old car enthusiast saying goes, if you don't want to die don't crash, if you are about to crash, crash hard.
That's a load of dung. That's because car designers are poorly trained now and lazy.
My 2005 Mazda6 begs to differ but that's the exception [=
@@vg4472 Yes, because it wasn't affected by the new(at the time) regulations iirc.
Bro Mocked BMW Designs at The Starting Of The Video💀☠️🤣
Have you seen the size of the grills though? Like huge nostrils or beaver teeth
Bro types like my 12 yo nephew 💀
@@rufusgreenleaf2466 Yeah I don’t like it honestly
love the new design. they look mean AF
And he was right… BMW’s look shite now.
It's got nothing to do with safety laws ruining how cars look and everything to do with companies being too lazy to design cars that incorporate then and look good... just look at the Mazda 3 as an example, incorporates all the same auto braking as the Mercedes but because they've taken some time to design it it, you wouldn't even know.
Exactly!!!! Since when have designers not had to comply with specs, mandates, best practices, laws, et cetera???
Big difference is that Mazda also adds all that as standard, with a couple of extra bits on the very top of the range. Mercedes charge extra for all of it so have to design 2+ front ends to account for the gaping holes they would be leaving otherwise
Imagine whining about safety features that saves lives simply because it "looks ugly".
"Sorry I hit your family cat since I pulled the AEBS out of the front, but I needed to make sure my car looks pwetty".
why are you here
@@andrewvaughan5686 Cause the video is being absolutely ridiculed on Reddit.
@@TheDuckClock should have known all these safety nerds were from reddit
@@andrewvaughan5686 Oh will you look at that. A boomer who peaked in high school. Hit the jackpot on this one if you think "nerd" is supposed to be used as a slur these days.
Also you realize that the way you present yourself gives the implication that if a human hit your gigantic SUV; you'd be more upset by your car getting dented than the poor life you just took?
Take care of your cat, or don't be a shit driver.
1:15 Wasn't expecting to see Hoblos here 😂
Same think 😂😂😂😂😂
Dodged a bullet with not getting the Cybertruck. 😂
Any law that prevents crap like the cyber truck I'm in.
I really, really dislike the cybertruck. But I feel that driving standards are too low. If I want to buy a Lada I should be allowed to. Things are just too expensive and its only getting wors by enforced laws.
@@Polla9203 so you think the cyberdump should be allowed? if so then thats like saying you should be allowed to have a spike wall mounted to your cars front so that if you crash into a pedestrian he literally dies
@@Stiegelzeine That's hyperbolic and if your serious you should get check for sociopathy since no sane person would conflate the two. Secondly the road is made for cars, don't cross it when there is a car coming. I've been following that rule all my life and somehow I'm still here. I don't like paying taxes and even less paying for things to protect people from their own incompetence.
It's a good thing we don't get the tesla cyberdump in Europe.
Everytime I look at it, the sharp edges cuts my retinas -is- it's that damn ugly and yes I'm being hyperbolic lol. But yeah... who'd have thought a "futuristic" design would be a brutalist architectural design from the 1960s on wheels lol...
I finally saw one a couple of times last week where I am. Still don't see what all the hullabaloo is about.
Even if we would get it here it would be almost impossible to drive because it’s bloody big
haters gotta hate!
bless your little heart!
The people who want them will just import them from countries that aren't ridiculous with their laws.
Number plates have been a law since a freakin' long time, I blame car manufacturers for not adapting their designs around this.
imagine being this hostile towards safety. Yeah pedestrian safety, if they don't wanna die to my car, stay at home!
I wish you the worst, Mark. The very worst. Because you are asking for it.
4:53 maybe that’s for the better. You don’t want to deal with the endless problems that thing has
Alot of lorries have them, and when they break they cost thousands to replace.
Some even cost $100.000,@@altspitfire
Must be why they are sold out through 2025
But if your victim survives the impact then you can't just throw them in a river and pretend it never happened smh
@@ch4.hayabusa they're sold out through 2025 because the Elon musk cultists will buy everything he shits out, even if it'll kill them. I mean, these are the same f***tards who are trying to promote autopilot even when it's tried to kill them multiple times on end
All these laws around design and safety and every time I go out to drive. Every new car has the smallest,thinnest dinkiest indicators/turn signals that are mounted so low in the vehicle it's hard to see them especially at roundabouts
This goes to reinforce that it's not a law problem, it's a design issue.
Like the new Santa Fe? That's all on Hyundai. The turn signal should always be mounted up high so that they're not blocked by the vehicles that pulls up directly behind you. Especially a struck.
I love the look of the thin strip taillight of the new Porsches, but because it is only one strip at night it is rather confusing and hard to judge your distance from it on dark highways.
Tesla Model 3's with the single, tiny LED as an indicator on the rear..
Lots of cars have had that for decades though. Many older small cars have taillights really low as well. Something I noticed when watching historical footage
Why the hell _don’t_ cars have dedicated spots on the front the license plates? They do on the back so why not the front? Thank you Mat, I’m not gonna sleep tonight because of you.
because in America front plate is not mandatory afaik
Most cars in Europe has them, the issue is that plates in the front are horrible in most cars that aren’t like a fiat 124 from 1974
Most states in the USA require a front plate, but there are plenty that don’t. I think the bigger design issue is trying to find a dedicated space that would work with European style plates, versus the style used in the USA and elsewhere.
In the US, some states don't require front license plates. My last car had a place molded into the front bumper for a plate but my current car doesn't and it looks good without it because my state doesn't require a front plate. If anyone needs to know my license plate number, they can get behind me.
Plates vary in size and shape around the world.
All cars went downhill, once screens were introduced
My guess is when the CVT transmissions were introduced in 2009 right before the Financial crisis.
@@vg4472 your right i had an early cvt car, they were awful.
@@vg4472 I love my CVT, but everyone around me hates that I can't fly at mach 2 speeds instantly like them...
@@SStarlight9614 I used to love my CVT Outlander Sport too until the transmission slipped carrying a load of fence pickets then I traded it in for a 2009 Pontiac Vibe GT best decision ever.
@@vg4472 My 2023 Sienna CVT is pretty good, considering it's not a traditional CVT but a planetary one (marvelous engineering). I even beat some assholes in a BMW 330i who kept trying to brake check me because I was going slow on the right lane. Only complain is the constant droning noise the engine makes, but it sounds kind of mean so no big deal.
No, laws are getting promoted more strictly due to drivers driving recklessly and causing serious damage, becoming a threat for everyone inside and outside the road, laws are being promoted for the safety of pedestrians, cyclists, bikers and other cars, the fact that the cars get uglier implementing those safety measures reflects how companies are not used to implementing them, just to sell cars that cost them a fraction of what they sell them for, that put everyone's life at risk, if you check the devices, those are made to make it as hard as possible to cause serious damage even when purposely trying to, AEB sensors, for example, straight up try to avoid an accident even if you try to press the gas pedal. Anyways, looks are more important than safety, apparently
Basically car makers have to change their design language to incorporate these sensors. I thought Renaults idea to make an extra big badge that contains the front sensor was really good. Mercedes could easily do something similar.
The badges are stolen in South Africa to decorate hooligan helmets at football matches, we will suffer a heart attack here if the sensors are put on that badge.
@@davesoldit2587 Mazda do it as well, the badges are stuck on like the older styles but inset in a clear plastic thats molded onto the grill etc. They'd have more luck just stealing the whole car
I think they do on some cars, that shown on the S class was an extra LiDar sensor that's even more detailed than the usual radar and ultrasonic.
Make driving tests harder, government safety regulations will get to the point the costs will be astronomical, bring back simple well built cars an owner can actually work on.
What about all the people who've already passed their test? 🤔
How's a driving test going to ensure that you survive a car crash? Or that whoever you hit with your car has a better chance to survive?
Agree!
@@DreddMann If people knew how to drive, crash frequency would plummet. Why do you think aviation accidents are so rare? People train for months or years to fully understand what goes into flying an aircraft, and *they* have an extra dimension to deal with.
@@Furious321 right, and the time when people drive under the influence? When they drive when they are tired and don't notice something in time? When they speed? What then?
People will die.
"Oh but the car is cheaper because we got rid of all these dumb laws that made safety features mandatory, isn't it lovely?"
Almost like the purpose of cars should be for moving from point A to point B as safely as possible and not for aesthetics.
why shouldn't we be allowed to enjoy something we pay for?
@zxichi you should but if your pretty thing is likly to hurt others your pretty thing needs to change.
@@zxichi In what way does a sensor that you can't even see while driving make the vehicle less enjoyable?
@@zxichi You sound like an asshole.
@@zxichi not if it can hurt people while you drive
8:53 regarding the question, why number plates aren't integrated in the cars design I think the answer is easy: some countries (even some us states) don't require front number plates. So the car can show it's beauty....
To be fair though, the Cyber truck's appearance wouldn't look any worse if it was covered in pipe lagging...LOL
Bro wtf, I've always thought about model Y being just a strange tall model 3, but the computer mouse identify makes even more sense 😂
took me all the way out. now I can't unsee it🤣
I actually really don't mind the minimum mirror size. Yeah it's ugly, but it's also practical. The view I get in my 2009 Volvo V70 or my wife's 2007 Mazda 5 is amazing compared to almost any hatchback or sedan made after 2015. My dad's 2017 Mazda 3 has such poor visibility between the tiny rear window and the tiny side mirrors that you need to get out and clean the backup camera just to see where you're going in reverse.
I think it's been made larger because these days people are glued to their phones therefore have really shoddy eye sight and refuse to wear glasses. Being an opthamalogist and optician is a very lucrative career but enjoyment of seeing constant eye degradation would be quite disheartening i imagine. After all you'd have to be glued to a screen to diagnose the issue in patients as well and round the cycle goes lol.
@@earthtaurus5515 What facts is your opinion based on? Nothing? Just wishful _gut feelings_ ? Yea... As I thought.
@@BeefIngot Basic Biology, eyes use muscles to move. But apparently according to you they don't. Soooo, you saying eyes don't degrade or fatigue from looking at screens all day? The same principle also applies looking at books all day as well. Hell, the same would apply if you spent looking at anything at a fixed distance for hours on end day to day.
@@earthtaurus5515 I love that the reasoning of you types is always "basic" ... thst you have no grasp of.
Always your gut feeling of how you imagine something works and you never bother to dig further because your first instinct has just gotta be right.
Here we have you talking about your eye movement muscles degrading vision. 😁
@@BeefIngot I suggest you go study basic anatomy and muscle strain, you might learn something. But highly doubt it since you've deliberately taken what I've said out context to fit your asinine logic. Which are clear hallmarks of a troll or maybe you're just ignorant. Regardless you can continue this silly conversation with yourself and a mirror, peace.
Its not the laws that's ruining car designs, its the designer who are unable to integrate new safety features xD
My 2016 C300 has emergency braking and the sensor sits nicely behind the Merc Badge on the grill and is totally invisible from the outside.
Why can't they do that anymore?
The spats provide unobtrusive (relatively) protection from rock chips but preserve some of the stanced appearance. All over Porsche SUVs
"Tesla model Y looks like a giant computer mouse" couldn't have said any better Mat 😭😭
Mock safety regs but sharp edges on the back of cats being banned is because an exhaust akin to a pie cutter has already impaled someone several times. Also cars spin out, it's not just reversing incidents. Cars are too big. That's why they're ugly. Wrt number plates, you could easily do away with them completely but that would involve tracking cars, and people don't want that.
Cut my finger badly on the exhaust of a Nissan micra when washing the car a few years ago so I don’t mind bevelled pipes
Dude is IRATE that he won't be able to speed and potentially kill someone anymore.
Funny, how much I agree.
Trust me, Europe did not miss anything, not able to import that hideous cyber truck.
Here in AX, USA, we have no front license law, so are several free states, so all cars looks natural. :)
Its more down to manufacturers doing it on the cheap, I have it AEB and adaptive cruise on my car with lane keeping and nothing on the front other than the badge in the grille, its all behind that.
Yes, it's so safe to get hit by a car now that it has padding under the hood 😂
It does lower your insurance though which makes it more tempting to buy that kind of car...
Occasionally it also hanging underneath the front grille.😂
@@ruk2023-- That's because it works.
😂How thoughtful, right?
I mean it increases your chances of surviving. How the hell is that a bad thing?
The iX doesn't need lights inside the boot because it is already too ugly.
The BMW iX is gorgeous and there are tons on the roads, so I am far from the only one that thinks that.
@@ebridgewater The iX is expensive. Don't confuse buying a car for its looks with buying a car because it's expensive. BMWs are the ultimate look-at-me machine now.
6:10 there is a very simple and elegant solution to this problem, make sure the lights aren't a part of the fifth (boot) door. It looks good and is ptobably the simplest solution around.
1:19 Mat:It looks like a heating thermostat
Sensor: *turns into a thermostat*
If you don't see or hear the Lamborghini, that little lip won't help one iota.
That's misinformation, at least for some part of your clip. That ugly box in the bumper is for radar cruise control, not for emergency braking. For the mandatory system, the camera behind the windshield is used.
So Matt Watson is ranting about how designers are making ugly cars, (he already say this various times on the video), but he decided that the culprit is the law and safety protocols. I knew Mat is completely disconnected from reality when he reviewed the Dacia Spring and technically asked us viewers to stop being poor, because he cannot believe someone can buy that car, or when it says that a 40000 euros is an "affordable" car, but now ranting about safety protocols, when he knows and admits that is designers fault. Dude, get out of your Audi R8, go to a market and talk with some nomal people, or not, you can stay in your rich bubble if you want, but not everyone is that dumb of buying your discourse.
Carwow is simply not the place for reviews, they're good at entertainment and that's just about it.
I'm not surprised by the Dacia thing you mentioned and it certainly isn't their only mistake. Go to the Boxster review and you'll see there 'high quality interior' marked as a pro in the shortlist, yet lower down they admit that pretty much everything that makes the interior good is optional. The base interior is pretty poor and you need to spend almost 10 grand on the extended leather package + seats to make it look/feel good, yet it's marked as a general interior perk of the car. Why? I think more than half the Boxsters on sale on the used market don't have the fancy interior. Because of reviews like these people don't even know there's a significant difference.
Another big one is that there have been many cars where certain interior bits were criticized yet in other cars the same quality interior bits were ignored. Focus was praised for the soft touch materials near the rear windows, other cars were criticized yet the Golf MK8 wasn't criticized for it. Super inconsistent.
indeed. this guy is kind of an diot with no self awareness
It's called "outrage draws views." Carwow and Matt know this.
@@tim3172 Exactly, they're influencers, not journalists.
Same model with small plastic spats for a reason , especially where bumper and body, they stop sand and mad from wheels and later saves you money for repainting rust on that place 😁
As much as the rules are getting increasingly restrictive, a HUGE amount of the ugliness (especially around sensor packages) are designers being either lazy or hung out to try by execs that wont allow them the time/resources to do it properly. Integrating a sensor suite into a grille can't be all that hard or else Mazda wouldn't have already done it...
i have to say the DRL have made the future of cars look well futuristic
Let’s stop buying the new ones and love the ones already on the road.
BMW fans got roasted when starting the video itself 💀☠🤣
I think even BMW fanboys agree that the newest designs look like garbage lmao.
@@xIcarus227damn right new bmw’s are getting uglier each year
i like bmw but i hate their cars... only original BMWs are good (so their motorcycles because bmw produced motorcycles before they started making cars)
6:34 also Day running lights are so bright a lot of drivers don't realize that their actual head/tail lights are off. Hella dangerous for drivers behind
I bought a BMW M340d recently and theyve got particularly stupid mirrors. The mirror is connected to the car at the bottom of the mirror but then there is this phallic projection above that which doesnt do anything except create a totally unneccessary blind spot
You forgot to mention minimum bonnet height and distance to windscreen for pedestrian safety. Even lambos look like suvs now
I don't disagree with that but it's all a result of something. Modern cars are made to withstand hitting solid objects at 40mph which means they are built like tanks so there has to be a response that makes them less dangerous to pedestrians as well.
@@ruk2023-- it's actually quite the opposite. Only the cabin is reinforced. Everything else is built to crumble and compress easily in order to absorb the impact. Otherwise you'd have a scratch on the bumper and be dead inside the car cause the belt cut you in half. That's one of the challenges for evs and 911s for example. Without the engine in the front you need other structures to deform and take in all the energy.
@@progammler They are designed to crumple. That doesn't mean they are made of jelly.
@@progammlerthe rollcage and engine powerplant both should've been resurfaced.
@@ruk2023--or even 60mph sometimes.
If the cars we drive are gonna become safer, the changes may not be that bad. All your points are about the aesthetics and not the safety improvements which I feel like is arguing that the chance of my death are gonna be higher but it looks great.
Yeah but then your hearse is gonna have ugly mirrors!
Well you dont appreciate these safety features until the moment you are saved by them. Yesterday I was driving and the sun were shining directly towards me, suddenly the car in front of me braked. the sensors in Golf detected it and warned me I didn't notice and if it wasn't for the warning I would have continued the journey in another car ;)
3:32 “Have you bought a car by Tupperware”
That’s a bit of an insult to Tupperware which is more practical and will probably outlast modern cars.
Emergency brake assist is the most annoying unsafe system I have ever had kick in. Picks up a road sign and slams on the brakes, tight corner with arnco barrier at just that right height for it, slams on the brakes, overtaking on a clear motorway and something triggers it, dangerous sudden braking cause the car thinks it knows best.
Never have I had it kick in once when it made things safer, always made things more dangerous.
I like the customizable DRLs in the new Audis.
This does have the whiff of complaining about doctors saving lives to it.
It's just a boomer rage-baiting other boomers.
We won't get the cyber truck?? The law is good for something then!
I believe "spats" are to help with airflow and protect the edge fron stone chips!
This automatic breaking will get so many people killed especially in snow and ice
the number plates are the designers fault more than the laws, older cars somehow always encorporate them well.
I'm not sure what "encorporate" means, but yeah, nearly all of this is the fault of the manufacturers try their hardest to maliciously comply then cry that the laws are against them.
@@tim3172I think I was looking for incorporate.
I’d still take the safety though. Car manufacturers can also definitely get better at designing around the requirements.
Aeb is relatively dangerous! Had it on our 22 qashqai and occasionally it would slam on the brakes because of somebody on the pavement, and I mean an emergency stop!
I got flung forward into the seat belt on Sunday, the other car was nowhere near us in reality. I wasn't driving so it was a bit of a shock.
@@SteelyDavey absolutely it is! Ours would also slam on if we were driving round a bend and the was pedestrians on the path. It was the unpredictability and knowing how hard it would slam on..
I don't understand why you all trust cars with self drive??? Why on earth would anyone let a car drive them? It's dystopian to put your life into the hands of a machine.
@@rocksreviewsreactions337 AEB systems aren't a part of self-driving cars, just an auto-brake if it detects a collision.
@@sugar4522 I find they vary massively from one company to the next. I hired a 21 reg Golf a year or two back and it was constantly interfering. The Mazda3 i have now is a million times better, it alerts you in stages and only stepped in once when someone pulled out in front of me.
On the front number plate topic, I think the modern BMWs have the unique feature where the "tacked on" front plate actually makes the car look better because it breaks up the huge oversized grille. The plate functions as the piece of bodywork that SHOULD be there to break up smaller kidney grilles from a lower full-width grille.
I was driving a Mercedes sprinter last week, crawling up behind someone but I can drive and know when to brake. Van panicked and braked quickly by itself, I skidded to a halt and a car ran into the back of me 😡
How good does it feels to seamlessly skip the entire carwow add from 3;00 - 4;15.
It's a little game I play every time they upload, especially for these 'weak' uploads where they don't even have to leave the studio.
mine does that automatically with sponsorskip
Mat's Rant mode on 😂😂
Mat? Like... welcome mat?
Did you mean to say Matt, and your illiteracy kicked in?
@@tim3172 No his name is actually spelled "Mat Watson." Blame his parents for that.
But you can buy a 1000bhp car from factory. lol
that is also something that probably should be outlawed. cars with more than 300hp should require a special license.
and i say this as a car person. just one that is connected with reality and doesn't live in an adult-sized toybox.
@@GraveUypo Freedom is more fun. Here's an idea: don't press the pedal all the way down.
@@GraveUypo I had *FAR* more close calls in my Focus and Mazda 3 than I've had in my two Audi S4's, despite the latter having 333 and 354 HP.
The sensor on the AMG S-Class doesn't have anything to do with the AEB. It's only there if you buy the Level 3 autonomous system. Besides: all of those laws make sense from a safety and efficiency perspective. Some companies implement them nicely, some don't. It truly speaks to the ability of the designers
I stopped looking forward to new cars anymore a while ago. I used to love going to the auto shows to see cool cars that were coming out but modern cars are not as cool as their predecessors hardly at all. It's cool to see the tech but it's bad that it's ruining cars
Couldn't be more true. Car enthusiasts need to fight back.
Car enthusiasts are only a vocal minority
Its crazy you dont realize how entitled and childish you sound.
@@Sithhy And that's just sad.
Car enthusiasts, by and large, do not purchase new vehicles.
Their weak, impotent cries of "no airbags, we die like men!" go unheeded by manufacturers because they're not the target market.
The few exceptions are the M2/911/a few other vehicles still shipping with slow, inefficient manuals because enough people buy them.
@@opshredderytp car enthusiasts don't ever get distracted? Or likelier, they're never at the mercy of a distracted/unsafe/drunk driver?
WHY THE HELL didn't you include the new Speed Limit WARNERS??? This is the most annoying law thing EVER
The video is all about law required features that uglify cars
Well, ICE cars won't be exactly banned, supercars with less than 1000 units will be exempt and existing ICE cars will run on e-fuels. But I guess you are talking about UK, so yeah, they are quite annoying with lawmaking sometimes, but they already delayed this combustion """ban""" by 5 years (the deadline was 2030 until last year), so there's still hope, even for the UK.
2035 is still never gonna happen here. Even if the EV market wasn’t tanking, the infrastructure is so woefully inadequate that it will never catch up in 11 years
@@reececollison5101 Yeah, I mean, the EV sales have plummeted, and the demand for them shrinked, since the EV buyers already have their own EVs, and the ones who don't or don't have the infraestructure where the live/work or don't want them. I mean, people are more keen to go hybrid rather than electric (I included), so even the most EVangelist lawmaker can't ban ICEs entirely, cuz the people don't want or can't have them.
@@leomux2004 London is a proper case in point. Where nearly everyone lives in flats and don’t have driveways. Plus if the flat is lucky enough to have underground parking, the building developers won’t want to pay huge amounts of money to fit them all out with charging. Then people who do have have to use street parking will need to use public chargers, which charge around 75p per/KWH meaning it costs you £50+ to do around 200 miles, about double the equivalent cost of petrol. Honestly the whole EV dream is just doomed to failure and is never going to happen. It’s already going that way in the US where dealerships are turning their backs on stocking EVs
@@MixedContent2-cf1tn e-fuels are carbon neutral, so probably not.
@@leomux2004 On a long enough time line, all fuels are carbon neutral.
"Oh no, I don't like how this looks, this is so ugly"
talking about laws protecting and saving lives of pedestrians is not easy when you cant stand to think anything else than your precious death machines
My biggest peeve is those LED taillamps that are microscopic in size but illuminate at supernova level, especially toward the drivers behind at night. The UN-ECE WP29 doesn't seem to have the minimum size for the taillamps as the US FMVSS 108 does.
It is not the low which make the cars ugly, it is the manufacturers who does shit job. Some cars don't have this problem and still follow the law and are beautiful.
Safer cars will mean cheaper insurance right? Right???
HA! Cheaper what?
For much of these, if people weren’t so fricking stupid in cars then they wouldn’t be doing this would they?
Same goes for front collusion sensors... they can have one pcs of grill little bit thicker and design the grill around it not the other way around.
I loved that you said “grind my gears” . You made me smile Mat