Genesis G70

Say this in any car community and watch the reaction. The Porsche 911 is overrated on looks. Not overrated as a car. Not overrated as a driving experience. On looks specifically. The design that everyone calls timeless is, examined honestly, a design that has been coasting on familiarity for decades while the world gave it a free pass because of what the badge represents and what the car does when you push it...

Some cars demand maintenance to look good. Black paint that needs weekly washing and monthly polishing. Complex body kits that need alignment after every car wash. A lowered suspension that scrapes on every parking garage entrance. These are cars that look spectacular when everything is right and progressively worse as the owner's time and patience run out...

Japanese automakers have been quietly building the strongest design portfolio in the world, and the automotive press is only now catching up to what has been happening. This did not happen overnight. It is the result of a philosophy shift that started in Hiroshima with one mid-size brand and spread outward in ways that are still playing out...

Every few months a new obituary gets written for the sedan. Sales are down. Automakers are canceling models. The crossover has won. The four-door is finished. And every time someone writes that obituary, the Toyota Camry sells another 300,000 units, the Honda Accord moves another 200,000, and the Tesla Model 3 quietly becomes one of the best-selling vehicles on the planet. The sedan is not dead. A specific group of automakers decided it was not worth their effort, walked away, and then pointed at falling sales as proof the customer did not want it anymore...