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Originally Posted by TheClassicCarKid
Chevelle and Nova shouldn't be used on a 4-door car.
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There were 4 door Chevelles and Novas, and even the 2 door versions were still essentially sedan bodies.
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Originally Posted by binlow84
All this "fake hood scoop" crap.... Seriously, if absolutely everything on a car was made to be functional we'd all be driving boring blobs of metal. The hood scopes do serve a purpose: they function as a means to draw the eye, give the appearance of power. You could stick a car like the Camaro into the body of my Cavalier (with obvious changes to proportions and size and such, I'm talking styling) if you really wanted to. But do you know why they don't? Because the style doesn't match the power. The reverse can be said as well, you're not going to stick the Cobalt's power train into the Camaro's body styling because they just don't match (DeLorean anyone..........?). You have to make the car LOOK as powerful as it is.
Sure hood scoops can get out of hand, but the G8 and the Camaro are perfect examples of aesthetically functional features. Just because they aren't MECHANICALLY functional and increase the performance doesn't mean they shouldn't be there.
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You betray your argument with a false dilemma. The absence of fake indicators of power does not mean that legitimate design details can't make good styling and/or suggest power. Strip the Camaro of the fake hood scoop and it certainly doesn't look like a Cobalt or Cavelier. It still looks every bit as fast and powerful. Fake scoops pretend to be something they're not. They even include plastic panels with a semi-mesh impression stamped in them. That would be like adding rudder surfaces to 50s era Cadillac vertical fins. Fake hood scoops are designed to suggest "air goes in here" when it very clearly does not. Why not add a jet nozzle to the back? That would suggest power would it not? Why not add missile launch points? That would suggest aggression. Or you can let real style subtly suggest these features without resorting to loud tacky pieces just tacked on.