The grey one
It isn´t a beautyful car in the traditional way but in a futuristic way. Somebody who drives such a car he wants a "WOW" effect. Someone will say it is ugly some will say it is a cool and modern car. I like it especially after this Video.
I actually completely agree with this. What you just said is exactly what I was thinking when I first saw this car.
I don't think the design is particularly clean or timeless per se, but it's definitely a step towards
something. Whereas the Infiniti is more conventionally pretty and handsome, the IS is just such a fresh and innovative design. It's certainly quite revolutionary, and for the first time, it's actually something that looks bold enough to be a concept car. I'm sick and tired of cars looking bland and nice. While I completely understand why so many people find this ugly, I feel like I can appreciate what it's trying to do for automotive design. The way those rear lights swoop down is something quite expressive, and a feature I find shows a bit of passion I've never seen from Lexus or Toyota. The front lights, though sort of odd and dysfunctional, are quite intriguing, and is finally something someone hasn't really done before. I find that as more 'blah' sedans come out at the auto show, I'm drifting back to the IS thread just to deconstruct the design. In some ugly, convoluted way, I'm really warming up to the front end. The boldness of the bumper coupled with the ingenuity of the light cluster really interests me. It's almost as if whether or not it looks nice or not is irrelevant.
To be perfectly honest, I think Lexus fully understands that the IS would have seen a much wider appeal if the LEDs were just conventionally integrated, the rear lights less swoopy and more boxy... but that's seriously what all cars look like these days. The recipe for the modern car is just some integrated LEDs, followed by a quadrilateral grille, and finished off with some boxy, sharp rear lights with some LEDs in them. The Avalon, Q50, RLX, all have that similar design and I really hate it. I would really rather have something which looks UGLY than something which looks the same every single time. I know I'm probably stepping on a lot of toes right now, and probably gonna get a rebuttal from someone who posts a pic of an Aztec, but I like what this Lexus is trying to do.
It's so pointy...
