Movies show a lot of neat features that are suppose to be in the automobiles of the future.  They’ve shown cars that fill with foam during a crash so that no one gets hurt.  Movies have shown cars that drive themselves.  Some of the ideas portrayed in the movies of yesterday are actually a reality today.  It isn’t the features that depress me.  It is the look of future cars.

I have never been talented at telling one car from another – no matter how distinct the models.  Designers have made it even more difficult for me over the years.  Most all of the cars on the road have the same basic shape and same basic design.  From the look of the future cars that I’ve seen so far, that trend is going to continue.

The “new” cars that catch my attention are the ones that look like old cars.  I want something as distinct as the 1966 Ford Mustang.  My car needs to have a character all its own.

Designers may be concentrated on better performance, better gas mileage, and technical things like that when they develop their cars of tomorrow.  If they want to keep me as a customer, they better create a design that is more than functional.  It needs to stand out in a crowd.