FCA group really needs more designers 

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone) 12/14/2016 at 14:49 • Filed to: None

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Because it seems brands borrow design elements from each other.

TheHondaBro > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 12/14/2016 at 14:56

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They’re both SUVs.

Rico > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 12/14/2016 at 14:58

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I was just thinking this the other day. The Jeep GC, Dodge Charger and the Chrysler 300 have the same LED DRL design. Lazy

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > TheHondaBro 12/14/2016 at 14:58

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They’re also both basically the same car.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 12/14/2016 at 14:59

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Well yeah. they’re the same car underneath.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Rico 12/14/2016 at 15:06

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pretty sure that lazy is the Mopar MO.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Rico 12/14/2016 at 15:09

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The thing that bugs me is that the Rolls-Royce Ghost/Dawn and the Jeep GC a very similar (at a glance, but that’s what counts) LED headlight pattern. It looks good on the Jeep, but RR can do better... Not entirely because of Jeep’s headlights, but it definitely helps bring it down. The dawn would be so much better off looking a little closer to the Phantom. You could argue that they want it to look different than the Phantom... to that I say look at the taillights.

Rico > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 12/14/2016 at 15:11

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You bastard, now it is ruined. (I’d still love one!)

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Rico 12/14/2016 at 15:13

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If I have to suffer, so do you.

On the plus side, now you can go get a Grand Cherokee and kid yourself it’s a Rolls-Royce!

B/Xmrrmvr > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 12/14/2016 at 15:14

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The Chrysler 300 has styling cues copied from Rolls Royce.

bob and john > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 12/14/2016 at 15:14

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two cars that share the same chassis and underpinnings look roughly the same.

YA DONT SAY?

Future next gen S2000 owner > Rico 12/14/2016 at 15:14

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It is probably corporate dictated to have brand unity. Same with corporate grills. Not lazy, just pushed down from above.

Vicente Esteve > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 12/14/2016 at 15:20

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They share the same engine?

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 12/14/2016 at 15:28

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Not a great excuse, the Mazda 3, Volvo c30 and the Ford Focus were pretty much the same car underneath too.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > B/Xmrrmvr 12/14/2016 at 15:29

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Uh... The headlights on the 300 and the GC are totally different, and the 300 and Ghost look nothing alike. Besides, the 300 first used those headlights in 2011, and the Ghost didn’t use them until 2014.

yamahog > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 12/14/2016 at 15:44

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FCA needs a lot more cash with which to hire enough decent employees to do all the work required to keep themselves afloat.

In reality, it seems many people are jumping ship to get a more competitive salary and some job security.

B/Xmrrmvr > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 12/14/2016 at 15:51

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Shit, guess I misread that article a while back when the Grand Cherokee’s styling was changed. I think the similarities are debatable but RR copied Chrysler? Oh shit.

RyanFrew > Rico 12/14/2016 at 16:04

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Most good car companies feature similar-looking cars across the lineup. BMW? Audi? Rolls? Lamborghini? Tesla?

This is driven by Sales & Marketing, not laziness. Also, bear in mind, that we’re largely talking about the same designers here, using the same or similar platforms. Picasso’s paintings tend to look similar, too.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > yamahog 12/14/2016 at 16:25

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Although, if they died, would anyone really care? It’s not like Chrysler has designed a decent car completely on their own in the last 40-50 years. Fiat produces roughly the same grade of crap, so they’re kind of made for each-other.

I know there aren’t many places to go in the auto manufacturing world, but in my field you’d be a fool to stay anywhere more than a handful of years with how rapidly salaries are rising. Nobody seems to give raises that keep up with starting salaries elsewhere, so they lose whatever talent they were able to find in the first place...

Racin'Jason001 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 12/14/2016 at 17:44

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I mean, why do you think they host this every year? (I participate :)

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 12/14/2016 at 17:47

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If FCA died off, Fiat, (probably) Ferrari, Maserati, and Alfa Romeo would find new ownership, but I can’t say the same about Dodge or Chrysler or Lancia.

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > bob and john 12/14/2016 at 17:49

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The Ford Fusion and Mazda 6 were on the same platform, and they looked pretty different.

nermal > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 12/14/2016 at 19:26

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As far as the US goes, Jeep and Ram aren’t going anywhere, and Dodge is probably safe too.

Outside of that, not sure that any of their other brands would be missed.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > nermal 12/14/2016 at 22:57

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Yeah, the first two have cachet. Someone would buy them. Dodge is more of a dice roll, but someone might buy it cheap just to have the name.

Totally agree otherwise.