JAPANESE ORIGINALITY

Have you guys noticed how almost all Japanese cars are literally fucking copy attempts at original Western Designs? It's like they are incapable of coming up with their own, successful and original ideas.
>The sexiest Jap cars are literally copies, take the NSX for example
A sad attempt at cashing in the Italian Sport car design (Testarossa).
>MR2
Same shit as the NSX (Poor man's Ferrari, anyone?)
>Celica?
Literally Japs trying to make a Mustang from the 70's.
>AE86?
F-box idea steal


Can you guys help me find more examples? Seems to me like about the online line of Jap cars that are original, is the Skyline.

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>F-body idea steal

FTFM

Do you value Originality over copy/facsimile?
>McDonald's spends time and money researching locations.
>Burger King builds where McDonald's is.

One of the ways Japanese keep there costs down is to let the competitor test the market for trends, styling, consumer wants, then copy.

It is a synergistic marketing solution, that broadends the market.

The Japanese take less risk, have fewer failed cars/platforms.

Most American car companies are gone... but have more new ones too.

The Japanese had to make up "new" companies like Lexus, Infiniti, and Acura, just for American market.

Yes, I value originality a lot more. Westerners have brought beautiful cars into this world out of nothing and I am really grateful for it.

There's something so special about how Italians were able to grasp aesthetics so well to create marvelous and unique machines like the Testarosa, F40 or the Countach. Designs which will forever survive the test of time. The same can be said about the 70's Muscle car designs.
Keeping the costs down is a good thing I guess, but man wouldn't it be great if Japanese were are good as inventors as westerners and we could see what they could come up with? I am also very interested in why this is the case. I wonder how much genetics comes into play here, we know Japs have lower Test levels so that might make up for being so risk adverse.

- The concept car NSX was based on was designed by Pininfarina before the Testarossa was released, which Pininfarina also designed. Basically Europoors became a one-trick pony.
- MR2 is a mid-engined AE86 that happened to look similar to supercars at the time.
- Can't argue with the Celica. Japanese companies were ripping off a lot of designs during the 60s-70s
- AE86 looks very different from the Foxbody, use some glasses.

Also, the Mazda RX-7 is still subjectively the most beautiful car to date and is an original design. Other cars that come close are Jag E-type, AC Cobra, old Porsche 911, Mazda Cosmo, and Toyota 2000GT.

Hnnnngggg. Those cams!

Old news.

japs love their big corporations
you have random jap toyota execs tour their factories in the US and quiz random guys on the "toyota way"
And they make everyone point where they are going at every intersections. Their workers are basically just machines.
Revolutionized reliability though.

>- The concept car NSX was based on was designed by Pininfarina before the Testarossa was released, which Pininfarina also designed. Basically Europoors became a one-trick pony.


You are saying Italians actually designed the NSX and a counterpoint? Not sure what you mean by one trick pony in this case, unless you are implying Italians were setting up Japs.


The RX-7 and most of the Mazda Line look like they were ripping off from the Corvette C line.

I am just glad the west is not that way.

Do you live in the 80s?

I was born in the year 95', but there's something so unique and inspiring about the 80's in general that's hard to find anywhere else. From Music, movies, clothing and car design, it's truly a cultural masterpiece for me.

Warehousing in the US have tried to implement japshit. Like doing stretches start offf shit and after lunch. Having higher up managers walk around asking people questions like a pop quiz.

If it was full blown jap mentality in the workforce I would just bum at a intersection. Fuck that human robot bullshit.

I couldn't think of a more beautiful message to have quints to. Fuck the Asian ant-hive mentality for their workforce, it completely kills creativity and the Western spirit of innovation.

Japan makes some top quality knockoff.

>Japan>S.Korea>>>>>>>>>Shit would never drive if my life depended on it>China.

Yes, at least they are not Chinese in terms of knockoff quality. Some Jap cars are legit awesome, even if they are heavily inspired in Western designs.

>80s
>cultural masterpiece
Rose tinted glasses wearer detected

The 80s were hated and considered tacky until the 2010s. You must realize that you're just a nostalgiafag and learn to appreciate the time you live in because you are dying.

Nope

>you must realize that you're just a nostalgiafag

I didn't even live through the 80's, how am I a nostalgiafag? Lmao.

>You must realize that you're just a nostalgiafag and learn to appreciate the time you live in because you are dying.


Oh yeah, it sure it's awesome with all the social justice warrior bullshit, the terrorist attacks and the immigration crisis. The shitty Justin Beiber tier music and all the look a like cars with hardly any shocking and inspiring design. God bless women with half their head shaved and hairy armpits! A cultural age where the epitome of greatness is being a twerking cuck that likes seeing his wife getting fucked in the ass while you fuck yourself with a dog shaped dong, Bad dragon Dildo.
Rad stuff, my bro.

When they try to be original you hate on them anyway, so why bother?

Buy what you like.

There's a different between tasteful originality and doing some random shit that just doesn't look good. Being different is not enough, it must be beautiful too.

oh look a retard trump voter who needs a safe space

I am not American.

you stupid le wrong generation faggot

>RX-7
it rather looks like a 944

Right here, one of the only good two things about this generation,

>1- Making liberals mad as hell by telling truth without any sugar coating
>2- How easy it is to get pussy since most of the competition are numales watching my little pony.

get your generation politics off Veeky Forums and stop derailing
also japan cars have always been copies

Fuck off, I am not the one who mentioned /pol/ nor made this political. If triggered fags get buttmad, they can go fuck themselves back to .


This thread has nothing to do with politics.
You are right, I guess even the mighty FC line was taking heavy inspiration for the Italian cars.

You hate when it's beautiful too.

You're just full of hate. Nobody uplifts and encourages anymore. They just take a dump in the middle if the room and start flinging it.

That thing is not beautiful in my eyes. I am not sure what the fuck you are on about, sounds like mommy didn't like your 5 year old drawings or something.

Some modern cars are beautiful, the issue is that most modern cars are expensive as fuck. What could have bought you something nice looking back in the 80's buys you a fucking FWD numale looking turd of a car.

Exactly my point. You glorify a past that you didn't live through. You are a secondary nostalgiafag. The 1980s had its share of middle eastern conflict and progressive movements. Looking like a homosexual became acceptable in the 80s. Most people who grew up in the 50s and 60s would have hated the faggy synth and new wave garbage. Angular cars that looked like they were designed by the best of Ford's budget engineer team and Gooky McGookson Inc. design team armed with rulers and a hatred for curvy 1950s and 60s design. Women actually started wearing pants suits and began the trend of avoiding family life. Divorces shot up, drug use increased, HIV began, hip hop music moved into the mainstream.

You have no perspective. Every decade is shit in its own way.

I am aware of that, but the 80's won't stop being aesthetically pleasing to me for that reason alone. Things either are, or they are not pleasing to the eye, the rest are irrelevant details.

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I've got no problem with that.

I'll enjoy it when kids born in the 2020s begin retroactively getting into 2010s culture. Get ready for the retro new twerk phenomenon of the 2030s.

>retro new twerk phenomenon of the 2030s.


The future is looking grim. I honestly believe things will move towards conservatism in the future, it cannot be that each generation continues to grow liberal until each person is considered nothing but a gender less mass of floaty cosmos stuff. How will teens rebel against their liberal parents otherwise?
I hear gen Z is cooking up to be a melting pot of fascism.

Your eyes need to be checked. The new LS and LC are two of the most beautiful cars to come out of Japan in a long time, specifically the coupe.

All the other GT cars it's competing with, the S-Coupe, the 6-Series, the Conti GT are all literal bars of soap with melted details. The LC looks like it was chiseled with a Samurai's sword from a solid block of carbon fiber, and the details are stunning throughout.

Maybe the original SC coupe, maybe the Z32, but I can't think of a single other Japanese coupe with such attention to detail in a successful overall design since the 2000GT.

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>solid block of carbon fiber
what did he mean by this

The s class coupe and the 6 series are in two different classes

I am simply not a fan of the over Chiseled stuff, that's all. They look a lot better than 90's and the early 2000 cars, that's for sure.

I'm a firm believer that it's cyclical. The 60s had hippies as a reaction to post-war conservatism. The 80s grew more conservative in response. Then the 10s came to a head with SJWism that's tired people out. And each generation of children wants to react against the status quo, so no surprise that Gen Z tends to be conservative.

That might be the case, it's going to get interesting imo. If all goes to shit, at least I'll have we'll have VR porn.

On the whole society has only gotten more liberal.

It's big government gelling the private citizen what they can and can't do that's continually going out of style.

Hence why not only will you have VR porn but you'll be able to watch it while completely stoned in the near future.

Everyone knows this. What they don't want to admit is that they(Japs) improved on the designs. Engineering wise, of course.

>big government telling...is going out of style
lol. big government has only gotten bigger since 9/11. you just don't remember what it was like beforehand.

Your boy Drumpf wants to end Obamacare, and the EPA among others but can't seem to get it done, despite controlling the Executive brannch and both houses of Congress...

Politics have always been a circle jerk. At least we didn't elect a fucking war criminal into office, facing as a herald for women while silencing the voices of the women his husband grabbed by the pussy.

Yes mang the public is generally happy we ended up with a Russian oligarch rapist instead.

There are no perfect solutions in the real world, I am just thankful Bernie was a big cuck, sacrificing himself for a women, as betas like to do. (Hurr durr socialism, but look at me driving a 100k car! No refunds!!).


A Jewish commie would have been 100 times worse than that crooked, mentally hill woman, well unless Hillary was actually gonna go through with demonizing the Russians as a scapegoat and starting WW3.

Original looks don't win races. Fancy designs are an unnecessary risk.

Japan has invented plenty. They're just not artistic faggots who need everything to be fancy. Performance is prioritized over shallow flair (aka an individuality substitute for people who have none of their own)

>ah very nice car, ramen sushi sama
>but it doesn't rook coor and unique enough. How wirr the driver stand out in a crowd?
Said no jap ever

>the public
the public doesnt know whats best for them
its the entire reason we have governments in the first place

a-am i wrong for wanting to buy one of these, lads

Art is an expression of the self. Individuality is not substitute for anything, because individuality is a inner thing. People who can relate to designs, is because they can see something in it they can relate to, and that's why they like it.
Japs are not as creativity or individualistic, so any expression of their inner self comes out as bland, look like of other things that hardly anyone can relate to. Performance is best left to machines.
To be creative, is to be human.
>>ah very nice car, ramen sushi sama
>but it doesn't rook coor and unique enough. How wirr the driver stand out in a crowd?
>>>Said no jap ever

Right, because Japan is not well known for being an eccentric as fuck country where people walk around dressed as their favorite anime characters and other crazy shit. Jap is full of annoying and obnoxious twinks wanting to be special and unique racebois.


You kidding, dude?

>WW3 caused by Hills

That's some Limbaugh/Alex Jones tier propaganda right there. WW3 is already in motion; its Putin's endgame. Drumpf causing a ruckus in North Korea only sets up Russia to unite with them, Syria and China against the U.S., who will be led by Commander-in-Chief Lizzie Pocahontas Warren.

The public knows what's best, which is what elections are for.

Russia knows this as well. It's Americans who are too lazy and/or uninformed to care that are screwing it all up.

Good thing cars are machines, huh...

It all makes sense now! It was him! Drumpf all along!

Conceptualized by Humans, huh...

yup. It's a girl's car user

>The public knows what's best, which is what elections are for.
if thats the case why aren't we using the popular vote instead of electoral college

>FWD


Yes, very wrong.

Because affirmative action for white people is deemed necessary, by white people.

LC is super unique that's why it's the Japanese clone of the DB11. Look at the rest of the horrid Lexus line when you want to see jap originality

Art is an expression of what you want people to see as your self. It's just a form of communication and is more used for facetious purposes than not.

Muh art is to be human is what flaming faggot children tell themselves world wide. I'm expressing myself, look at me, etc. Even the new generation in nipland. Normally while missing the point and making flashier and edgier art to say they are unique. Like your picture.

The last time art was not so facetious, it was religious...

No, the public really doesn't know what's best most of the time. That's like saying children know what's best for themselves and parent's should look over.


The average IQ in around 98 in America, that's dull as fuck. No one at the top is a drooling retard, no matter how much you want to believe it is so.

>be libcuck who can't justify why a former first lady with all the experience in the world lost to an orange television personality
>m-muh white people!
BTFO lol

>Art is an expression of what you want people to see as your self.


You said it yourself, art is a form of communication. So how could all art be nothing but an expression of what you want others to see yourself as? Obviously that's nothing but one of the messages one can communicate through art.

>Muh art is to be human is what flaming faggot children tell themselves world wide.

That's like saying ''Muh language'' is what flaming faggots say worldwide because teens LiKe tO TaLk LiKe DiS oN SoCiAl MeDia.


What a silly thing to say. It completely ignores all the great works of literature that were made, the same way you ignore all the great works of art and categorize the language as something only Deviantart wannabe furry artists use.

Affirmative action was made by liberals, though. Because they honestly believe minorities cannot succeed without white people making things easier for them.

It was literally white people that carried Trump to victory despite losing the popular vote.

He won more white demographics than McCain did in 08 and more than Romney did in 12, meaning he won more electoral delegates. Trump literally won more elite white delegates than Hillary did. This has already been reported extensively.

>This has already been reported extensively.
and i'm sure you eat all of it up you fucking cuck
enjoy the next 8 years lmao I sure will

And the Electoral College was made because white people didn't trust the rest of the population, i.e. nigs and spics, with choosing a president.

It's affirmative action for whites, by whites, to ensure a stronghold at the top of the government.

You say that like white people are supposed to forget about their own interests and opinions, and do whatever minorities and women want them to do. What a silly and racist thing to say.


American was made by white people.

I am enjoying the implosion of democracy actually. Stop projecting. Through the ashes will rise a strong er and more pissed off liberal machine the likes of which hasn't been seen since the 60s.

And why are you comparing fucking car design done for profit to italian masters and not to deviant art kiddos?

Because that's the level I see it on. It's cheap COMMERCIAL art that communicates an image, and is a limited format that can't do much else without shitheaps of graphics and straight up non functional items like gargoyles on your bumper and bass relies on your A pillars.

>It's affirmative action for whites, by whites, to ensure a stronghold at the top of the government.


Sounds good to me. I've yet to see a successful country funded and build by nigs and spics. Every minority wants a piece of the cake they didn't bake.

I wouldn't exactly call it a copy if they got a Ferrari designer to design the NSX. If someone is good at what they do, why wouldn't you want them to do the job you need done, well? Also, American cars suck dick, so many proprietary one time tools needed, and over all retarded engineering choices all around, due to America letting literally everything go to whoever will do it cheapest, including automotive engineers.

>blame hillary losing on affirmative action
youtube.com/watch?v=WycwDYlOCDw
well if she won then we would REALLY have affirmative action for white people, considering she has been a racist since the 60's.

>I've yet to see a successful country funded and build by nigs

Try America?

The country was built on the backs of niggers. We ripped them from their homelands to farm the fields and grow the young American economy into the industrious powerhouse it subsequently became.

Well, here's the thing. Almost everyone considers Italian car design to be beautifully aesthetic. I've yet to see Devianart tier art that can approach such perfection.


Also, using function as an excuse is not really going to work, since function is a priority in military vehicles and the west has simply, the most beautifully functional military machines ever built.

Brrrt?
F14 Tomcat?
BF109 Messersmicht?
P51?
SpitFire?
M1 Abrahams?
SR-71?

There you go, Function and creativity as one. Find me anyone but the West making the best combination of both on this Earth.

shouldn't all cars in one class look the same since there can only be one ideal aerodynamic configuration for an object of a given width and length?

all racecars look pretty much the same
all race bikes look pretty much the same

sedan? you choose between a blocky dodge and a toyota blob.

>nigs can only build a country when used for mindless labor while freeing up whites for thought

not helping your race there buddy

there are plenty of well developed patches in africa where people actually learned how to take care of and develop the infrastructure colonials left behind.

The niggers were nothing but muscle, you don't get America without white brains planning how things must work. You could have replaced nigs with robots, had the technology allowed it, and the result would have been the same. Except Detroit would still be a beautiful city today and our crime rate would go down like 50%

So the issue with American cars is that they use minorities to make them?

>freeing up whites for though
It's a shame all that free time for thinking was completely wasted on how to keep the black man down, rather than on actual education.

Now instead we've ended up with a country with dumber high school students than virtually every other developed nation on the globe.

Less IQs, lower life expectancy, higher obesity, higher debt/income ratios... WEW America, you really outdid yourself with that "free time for thinking" and engineering fidget spinners.

Italian design is not beautifully aesthetic. It's gaudy shit meant to project an image of being a gigantic rich faggot, and gigantic rich faggots and people who wish they were such faggots praise it appropriately.

>Muh sexy looking millitary vehicles!
Yes, they have function and creativity in one, and you can see it because they are by and large, armored vehicles that need to have weapons systems grafted onto them. You won't really find that in cars until you look under the hood and take a long hard look at the chassis, because they do not need to be armored against the bullets of the future or have guns creatively placed for maximum efficiency.

we have dumber high school students because we tried to raise the black man and his retarded white friend up by making curriculum easier and "more diverse"

>different learning styles and kinds of intelligence lol
it's called learning disorders and mental retardation.

>Italian design is not beautifully aesthetic

It is, it truly is.


>It's gaudy shit meant to project an image of being a gigantic rich faggot, and gigantic rich faggots and people who wish they were such faggots praise it appropriately.


Nah, that's like the people who say Mustangs are shitty cars because niggers drive them. It's a retarded thing to say.

Scapegoating the blacks works for crime stats, because most black people are poor (as engineered by whites), but it doesn't really work for education, which yet another institution that has been ruled by whites since its inception.

It truly isn't.

The only good thing an italian can make is a purely functional aerodynamic track vehicle with a plate on it. Granted, they do that a lot more than other companies because their usual business model is selling high end shit to high end customers, but it's all they can do, and people conflate run of the mill racecars with italian beauty while ignoring how fucking awful anything italian looks if it's not meant to be functional.

no user. black people are fucking dumb, by choice. they are like depressed anons who spend their money on cars and jerk off to anime instead of setting up for retirement and finding a wife because they figure the future holds nothing for them anyways.

>blacks are in too much despair to want to rise among social ranks

No kidding. I wonder why they're in such despair? Certainly wasn't slavery, or Jim Crow, or discriminatory banking practices, or discriminatory housing practices or discriminatory drug laws.... They should have been able to pull themselves up by the bootstraps!

blacks are in despair literally everywhere they go. even in fucking africa, maybe 10% of blacks seek betterment and live in and build their own civilization while the rest fuck around with mud huts and communism aka "ubuntu". despair and black culture go hand in hand like being a self righteous faggot and being white.

You're on some bizarre mental gymnasitcs, and clearly have a bone to pick with Western design and rich people for whatever reason. You are missing the point that Westerners are capable of coming up with the most beautifully aesthetic designs, and that Japs love to copy that.


>Italian cars are not aesthetic
>But aestheticism is a side effect of functionality
>But Italian cars are functional
>But they are not aesthetic
>Well they are because they sell to high end market only!
>But they wouldn't be functional otherwise!!!


You sound like a spastic fucker, son.

Right, meanwhile Asians, who have gotten nuke'd and Opium'd and get zero social and political representation in the media, went from the lowest to the top in a couple generations, out-performing whites in certain areas and becoming model citizen minorities. Yet fucking blacks, with all the wel fare, all the numales defending their dindu nuffin activities and all the programs to get blacks to succeed leads to nothing but more nigs being nigs.
Gee, I wonder why.

Gen Y somehow managed to forget 9/11 and are firmly conditioned by "You should hate yourself for being a WHITE FUCKING MALE" shit in schools, but they got out before the agender blobs appeared. Gen Z sees the little girl's bodybag last Bastille Day (it's been over a year already, god damn), and all the other shit, and some of them start to think it's a load of bull, although realistically it's because it swings back and forth, youth counterculture and whatnot. There is no fixing the women my age though, their subconscious submissive nature draws them to destruction.

Japan in particular is literally an island with minimal natural resources that has been left alone for the most part, aside from when whites interfered with the nukes.

Africa on the other hand is a vast continent that was filled with all kinds of profitable natural resources, including human labor.
Whites have invaded every inch of land on the globe with one common goal, profit. Africans weren't able to anticipate the sheer greed of the white man, hence why they didn't have the time to build a strong intercontinental defense system to keep the white man from raping their homeland.

>There is no fixing the women my age though, their subconscious submissive nature draws them to destruction.


Women need to be lead by men firmly once again. Women love dominance, all the cucks in our generation and doing nothing to satisfy that craving, and that's why we see a lot of white women fucking refugees, people who have survived through war and are not a bunch of sissy pansies.

Just like at the 50 shades of grade phenomenon. All this bullshit about gender quality and feminism, yet the most sell out novel for women of all time is about some rich old dudes dominant women sexually.

That explains nice guys never getting the girl too.

We are all humans, our history is one of war, invasion, rape and conquer. Japan have committed atrocious crimes against China too, as have Africans amonst themselves. To think of minorities are peaceful and savy creatures broken by the evl and greedy white man, is to be as ignorant of the reality you live in as it gets.


Had Black people had the technology to invade other countries, they would have done so. It just happened that Whites evolved faster to the point where they could dominate other races and conquer them. Africans, alike Abbos just didn't win the evolution race fast enough, and that's why they lost the war. Same goes from Native Americans.


Japs, Jews and Whites are simply put, the most efficient and evolved humans on this planet, and the rest perished out of their own faults.

Have you even seen pictures of Japan? 99.9% of the population dresses normally.

Let me lay out the principles here

Italian suprcars are not aesthetic because of italian design. They are aesthetic because they are functional.
Functionality is universally aesthetic.
Functionality is objective. There is no originality or unoriginality in functionality. There is only one absolute best solution to each problem.

Italian cars/bikes with the functional aspects removed or neglected look like complete shit. They're lexus grille tier.

Japan doesn't "copy" them, or anyone really, they just play it safe and apply functional ideas (they were not the first ones to make cars and not the first ones to discover which body styles worked well, after all) with minimal original design elements because anything fancy would be taking a risk with company money - even if they have no fucking clue what is functional and what is not, because they were not the first ones to make cars. To deride them for this, and call them unoriginal, is to deride germanic people for copying this "civilization" idea from the persians. We're a bunch of unoriginal fuckers. Or, nah, we played it safe and applied functional ideas that happened to be discovered (keyword - discovered, not "created") by other people.

And, like us with civilization, japan is coming to terms with the principles discovered by others and making things that are less like direct applications, and more like inspired works. However, because they continue to play it safe, these are easily mistaken for more clones because the principles that make a car good at being a car remain set in stone and you continue to conflate creation with discovery

As for the other topic, I maintain that non-functional artistic flair in cars made today is never an expression of the true self and is entirely about commercial image. Always has been, probably always will be.