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The Bolt has its own aesthetic, less suave, glamorous, beautiful (whatever those means in non subjective settings) than the Model 3 for instance. Yet I cannot help looking at the Model 3 as a shrinked lo-fi luxury Model S which makes me cringe more than the 'ugly' bolt. The aesthetics fit the market better somehow.

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To me it looks essentially like a Mazda 3 with shades of the BMW i3. Fairly generic.

Exactly this. Saw a new Mazda 3 4-door in the parking lot on Friday and did a double-take to see if someone had gotten their hands on a Model 3 test car. To me the design is... OK.

The Bolt looks like a $15k econobox deathtrap. The Model 3 looks like a 60k Italian sedan made in CA. But you cringe at that... yeah

The model 3 looks like something which started trying to look like a 60k Italian sedan but was redesigned everytime someone said "you know .. that corner offends me" or "I don't like that edge" until you got something where almost no one can say "I don't like that part", but lack anything special or interesting. All is round, round and .. round.

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