Unpopular opinion: Tesla's are ugly. The front-end style in particular looks like it was inspired by a Ken doll with no pants on (think about it for a moment, you'll see it). The model X, on whole, is particularly unattractive. But this doesn't stop any Tesla from being popular though because they're in vouge right now. And while I don't find the ID.4's styling to be particularly ground breaking, it isn't ugly....it's inoffensive. To your point, it doesn't do anything style-wise that a gas-powered car couldn't. But when automakers are risking, as you say, billions, it DOES matter. Because risk matters and they're trying to appeal to as many people as possible. Buyers can find enough reasons not to buy a BEV right now, VW doesn't need odd styling to pile on. I'm confident the cool EV designs will come...just a bit later.
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