Why is the vantage ugly?

23 Sep 2018

OK so what is up with the design language of Aston Martin? I understand that they needed to update the Vantage, but why do such a bad job at it?
Aston Martin design philosophy, particularly around the front end, is very functional, and through that beautiful in its functionality.

The reason for it is the synergy between the headlights and the main grille. The way the headlights follow the line started by the grille, as well as how they use the line atop the grille to be the halfway point of the headlights at their starting point. But that only works if the headlights are close to the grille. Also how the headlights do not exceed the line midway through the tire, and all these little design quirks are laws that previous Aston Martins obeyed by. The DB10, was a beautiful car from every angle but one, the front. Although Aston received criticism for the ugly design for the front, they continued to throw out their own laws for design. Even the DB11 doesn’t follow the correct lines and there is an incomplete synergy between the two elements.
What do you guys think, is the new Vantage ugly, or is it fine? BTW the top picture was edited by me in accordance with the Aston design quirks. Do you think its starting to look like an Aston? There are still ways to go

Comments

If the bumper came across the bottom of the grill, it would look way better…

It isn’t an ugly car as such, but it can be massively improved

That’s your opinion.
I love the design. Many won’t agree, many would.

I definitely love it. Reminds me of the Vulcan, my ultimate dream car I know I will never have no matter what.

I think it’s awesome

It does look very unusual, I also thought it was ugly at first because it’s so different to all previous Astons, but I think we’ll all get used to it at some point

I don’t want to get used to the fact that Astons get uglier, in the same way i do not want to get used to the fact that they do not sell a manual transmission car.

I used to hate the db11 but recently saw one for the first time in person and I’m questioning everything. So I can’t say for sure what I think of the vantage yet.