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The Jeep Recon and the Hyundai Crater both look like someone fed a generative AI a prompt of, “design an off-road SUV.”

The Jeep prompter’s cookies were filled with images of every other SUV from the past two decades. It feels like they just took things from every SUV and added the seven slots to the front.

The Crater’s prompter had just been marathoning Mad Max.

My eyes slip right off the Recon to any other vehicle nearby and get snagged in the terrible corners and crevices of the Crater.

Neither has soul or character, IMO.

That’s not to say all vehicles must be creatively unique. Most vehicles look like bars of soap to me. But it would be nice to have some unique-looking vehicles from time-to-time.


Says the person driving an F-150.
As on what my Uncle Scotty calls them, “Jelly Bean Off Roader”.
 
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I just saw that Geely is planning to enter its company ECARX on the NASDAQ. So that the US owner ship grows an they will be able to start importing to the US.
 
I don’t even know if it’s real. It’s just fugly.
Oh. Its real?

My LORD, I didn't even bother reading anything after I saw it. Just assumed it was AI generated in 20 seconds. So there you go! 🫣

It IS!!!
This was from the LA Auto Show and they drove it onto the stage!
Shudder.

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The Hyubdai is real but they aren’t going to make it according to one of the posts I read. Just incorporate aspects of it to their XRT trims.
Many of the key aspects of the Crater will be in future off road models (like you stated). Hyundai has a new studio dedicated to actually making off roader and hardcore ones. Hyundai is also working on a Body On Frame off road truck for the US market.
 
OOOFfffff - Looks like an FJ had an affair with a Cybertruck or Hummer that was the love child of a Pontiac Aztec and a 4X4 Vega.

That belt line is horrific too.

The windows would make it feel like you were sitting on a low bench inside a Kazakhstani prison cell.
Yeah-beltline and for that matter sight lines are horrendous
 
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