Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?

givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

but why don’t manufacturers of basic cars just put a fancy-looking exterior onto them?

“Kit cars” are a thing…

Not sure what’s popular these days, but for a while people were putting Shelby Cobra bodies on Miatas.

It’s way more than a Miata, but way less than an authentic Shelby.

So people who just care about the looks have been doing this for decades now.

But when it happens as a production, people don’t buy it because other people recognize it for what it is, look at the PT Cruiser.

So if a couple people do it, it passes as expensive. If a lot do it, it comes off as tacky and becomes a joke.

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