The reason cars tend to look very similar these days, is that fuel efficiency rules mean a lot of design work is done in wind tunnels, and using this data to style cars means similar rounded shapes. Also, when designing a vehicle with a stressed skin, using flat panels rather than curved ones makes them a lot weaker, and even if the skin is not stressed, flat panels are a lot noisier than curved ones, as they will "drum" unless very thick. This means it ends up heavier than it would be with curved panels. And while the extremely low angle windscreen reduces drag, the sharp angles increase it, as do the flat sides.
Having said this, I rather like the design - except for low angle windscreen. This is absolutely ridiculous in this climate, and would rule it out as a possibility for me, or anyone else in this country with common sense.
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