[IBrake4Rainbows]

I have always maintained - as a student of design - that the BMW 7 series trunk is an unacceptable resolution of the car. the eye is lead in three different ways - along the flat top of the bootlid, the cutline between the lid itself and the rear 1/4 panel, and along the line of the light.

The 7 series started life as a controversial car that would have to stand the test of time in order to be considered a successful experiment in design, but the slab sides look unfinished, the front looks obese and the interior.....well, the "Saharan" theme might work in a trendy nightclub in downtown munich, and I applaud the choice of a different school of interior design for a luxury car....but it's got to actually function properly.

The Durango might be ugly now....and will likely be ugly in the future, but you can at least call it a resolved design - every panel is as ugly as the last, and it almost lends itself to an endearing character. It's ugly with a purpose and can almost be excused - as 'quail said - because it's such a hybrid of a car - it's like an SUV designed by committee.

The 7 had such purity of purpose when it was designed.....It was meant to be ugly. and that to me is bluntly unacceptable.