• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    The Aptera has better aerodynamics. Mainstream car design is hampered by common assembly line production and focus group designing. There’s also a design for car manufacturers to keep customers within a certain brand, even if an large conglomerate owns many brands, they don’t want to risk a customer switching to a different brand(and possibly different conglomerate) as their needs change. This leads to what’s called “Badge Engineering”. The old Chevy Tahoe and H2 Hummer are basic the same car. All those “Jeeps” that don’t really look like Jeeps past the grill and could have just been a Dodge SUV.