I've also wondered this. I find it hard to believe that a designer of an electric car, other than a Tesla, can honestly think they styled a beautiful vehicle. If I were to give them the benefit of the doubt then I would say that what they initially sketched on paper and what was ultimately produced was the fault of layers of institutional bureaucracy each meddling with the design until it looked nothing like what was envisioned.

There was a time when most programmers did their own art. This is reminiscent of that time.