"Totally agree that this is a bad UX/UI design, and I can't believe it's being executed by a large corporation such as VW. How could they not conduct usability survey before implementing the design? Looking at your (low-res) picture, the two vertical white bars representing the fuel level is so un-user-freindly. It is a very cheap, confusing and inaccurate way of digital representation of an otherwise clear and accurate analogue function. Each vertical bar represents 1/8th of the fuel level. So the two vertical bars represent a quarter tank right? No, it might just represent only slightly more than 1/8th of a tank of gas, and that tiny amount of fuel is being represented as a full 1/8th tank by that vertical bar. Not very helpful at all."

"And the rear light design looks similar to those of Kia Telluride. Kudos to the Kia design team!"

"Are electric vehicles more environmentally friendlier and energy efficient than say internal combustion or hybrid vehicles? The disposal of the massive batteries at the end of their life cycle (about 8 years for Prius but could be much shorter from BYD) and its impact on environment has never been thoroughly discussed and disclosed in main stream media."

"The surfacing is indeed much better than those of Lexus'. It is very dynamic yet subtle enough to not overwhelm."

"Have been using both PTC Creo (ProE) and SolidWorks for industrial design CAD modeling. I must say if you want to have good quality parametric surfacing that you can adjust down the road, PTC Creo is the way to go. The Freeform modeling method combining with Freestyle are extremely versatile in achieving very high quality complex surfaces that is only second to Alias, but Alias lacks the parametric attribute and the solid modeling capability. SolidWorks simply lacks the intricate control when trying to achieve good quality surfacing works. Sadly, with aggressive pricing and marketing, SolidWroks is slowly taking over to become the most popular solid modeling CAD program within the ID community worldwide. PTC needs to do something to address this."

"Well said Anders. I share the same opinion with you on the old grille and Mazda's take on design direction. In fact I actually think the inverted pentagon is not as sophisticated as the previous gen design."

"I think it would be best to work with butter manufacturers that produce butter in stick form (there are already such butter on the market), so that users don't have to make their own butter stick to fit in the Butter Boss."

"There is no liquid cooling for milling, so I think that limits the kind of metal materials you can work on."