For some reason about a month ago, it seems like a thousand people in the Seattle region bought Hyundai Ioniqs, because I'm suddenly seeing them every time I go out anywhere. I had never seen one before, and I looked it up and learned that they're apparently very good EVs or hybrids
The thing is, the reason I bothered looking it up is because they are extremely striking vehicles. The picture doesn't do it justice, you have to see one in person, they are the most distinctive looking cars I've ever seen, at least from the back. And it occurred to me today that this is very very funny, because Elon Musk tried to make a cyber truck and the result was a laughable clown college piece of shit, and meanwhile Hyundai just quietly rolled these things out to production and they look a thousand times more futuristic and cool than anything his tiny brain could ever imagine.
Possibly, and we can't be certain here, but just maybe this is because the Hyundai has a distinct design, not really resembling anything else and clearly dreamed up by someone with an ounce of creativity, instead of a person who has no mental functions other than regurgitating the most surface level pop culture garbage imaginable. We just can't know
This is the Hyundai Vision 74, a concept car that Hyundai recently greenlit into production.
This is what happens when you have a design team with a proper creative vision for their vehicles, and you let them run wild.
Teslas look like plain ass cars because Elon doesn't know anybody with vision, and doesn't hire anybody with vision. because if you have vision, it means you have your own ideas. Musk doesn't want anyone's ideas but his own.
Meanwhile, Hyundai is willing to listen to their designers and push the boundaries, and the result is fucking phenomenal looking cars like the Vision 74 or the Ioniq. This is what happens when you don't hire Yes Men to coddle your boring bullshit ideas and, instead, let people do their damn jobs.
also gravis is totally right, you need to see the ioniq in person to truly Get It. I saw one in Winnipeg pull up to an EV supercharger and i couldn't stop staring at it. it's beautiful in photographs, but mesmerizing in meatspace.