I can't tell if you're serious or not. To me, the only way i see a boattail is if I hold a picture of one up in front of it. o No:
Look at the line above the door handles. Looks like the same "check mark" swoosh to me. Maybe not. It's only the body line I'm talking about.
Could be. Tough to make it out from the distance and angle. I see the slanted area at top of fender. They could have gone much further IMHO but a full blown boattail design in this generation of yawn mobile designs would probably make people's brains melt.
In modern cars there are just hints of styling cues, it disturbs the boxiness and uniformity of the design. I can see a hint of a sweep-spear and it does have something like venti-ports on it. So the Chinese stylists read a book or two, great. It kind of reminds of an old rock-star or an old overweight Hollywood actor; - leaning back on the same old schtick attempting to rekindle what was all over again...It ain't working for me.
The rear window is what sets the 1971-1973 Riviera apart from other cars. The sweap spear is all I see when I look at both cars, so not really Boattail only:
My Dad and I were talking the other day about how the car manufacturers are going for the retro look. We both agreed we would like to see a new version of a '65 Riv...... what do you think?
There is a slight body line/angle change which begins at the front right directional lens, runs back to just before the rear door handle, then sweeps up over the door handle and ends at the point of the tail light lens.
Why stop there? The Verano has these evil looking tail lamps, so why not put 59 style fins on it? Thinking of the Verano, it kind of reminds me of a Transformer; - It seems every car built these days looks like it was designed in a Manga studio. I always expect "Speed Racer" to pop out of a modern Cadillac. Well, except for Volkswagen, there's kind of a black cloud following those right now. "Fahrvergnuegen" is now "fraud-fer-you an'"...whoever else bought one...
I think the japanese have gone looney in the last few years; they went from yawningly bland to 'angry ugly robot' on everything. The Camry, that really big Infinti SUV, the Acuras with guillotine grilles, the Tundra, all look like they pissed off the designers and now they're having their revenge. There's a hybrid Lexus (CT200HTRZi&$@ or something) that's so ugly it looks like a dare. But then all the new Lexii have that 'open wound' nose; it really looks like crap on their big SUV (GXsomenumber?). I saw a 4Runner that looked like something from a political cartoon mocking SUVs. The new RAV4 looks like an overbred pug was its inspiration. But I'm becoming an old fart; what do I know? Patrick
Me too Patrick. I'm with you. Best SUV's I ever owned were a 94 Explorer and 99 Durango 5.9. Some SUV's started looking like transformers somewhere along the way.