Genesis GV70

It's not the badge. It's not the wheel size. It's not even the color, though color contributes. The single feature that makes any car look cheaper than it is, regardless of what it cost, regardless of how good the rest of the design is, is unpainted plastic cladding on the lower body panels...

Walk through any parking lot in America and run a quick count. Crossovers, trucks, more crossovers, a few SUVs, one sedan that belongs to someone's dad. The cars that consistently rate highest on design, the ones that win awards and get photographed at auto shows, are largely absent. Meanwhile, the vehicles moving off dealer lots..

Some cars stop traffic. They get photographed in parking lots by strangers, get threads started about them on forums, and land on every best-looking list written in the last five years. Then you check the sales numbers and wonder why nobody is actually buying them...