Are you talking about the ice cream cone shaped back sides on all new vehicles?
That shape is the shape that all the simulation wind tunnel computers spit out when they type in their desired drag #'s for fuel mileage. It makes it really boring.
I always read that the ideal aerodynamic shape was like an ice cream cone. The ice cream portion being the front, and the pointy end being the back. All the new cars droop off in the back and it gets rid of a lot of the drag on the back side of the vehicle. Styling/aero.
My theory is that it is the style only because the wind tunnel computers started spitting that general shape out. That's why the prius looks like an egg/ice cream cone.
The entire vehicle is different, as it's no longer a rebadged Mazda Tribute.
It's now built on the same platform as the Edge and etc.
Since FoMoCo has divested itself of Mazda (now only owns 3% instead of the 33% it once owned), a new platform will also be necessary for the next Fusion/rebadged Lincoln versions.
this newest design is so far from the original, looks like any one of the Japanese models out there. I remember my Bronco II, still miss it to this day
Sat in one at the fair tonight. Great seats. WAY too many buttons for this Luddite, but great seats.
Exterior styling is appealing in a generic way...dashboard is a complicated mess of shapes and surfaces with buttons, touch-screens, knobs and display screens scattered all around. Busy and confusing- even if you were the sort who wanted all that crap, I think they missed the mark for looking clean and being easy to find the controls.
I look one over Thursday . Super ugly up close with way to cheap japo in sides .. Dealer rep say he had people that got new escape every couple years that came in looked at new ones and drove off . And later and he saw there Escapes at Toyota garage .