As car designers seem to be stretching increasingly more each year when trying to create a something that's new, unique, rather timeless/classy-looking, and with pretty much universal appeal (few seem to be able to pull off all 4!), I'm still confused by the floating roof fad that's making its way across more and more of the <strike>lemmings</strike> automotive makers (as all design fads seem to do nowadays).
To me it's just more spaghetti on the wall, where not only is nobody is being fooled that the roof is actually floating above the chassis, but: even if you could pull off the illusion, why is a having a floating roof-look even considered a good idea other than maybe to make a particular designer's job more interesting that afternoon?
Ironically, the two cars I noticed it first on are by the two makes whose designs seem to be the most random & cluttered nowadays to me: Nissan & Lexus.
Even Honda's jumping on the floating design cliche bandwagon, tacking a floating roof onto the Odyssey (with questionable success IMHO).
This guy's taste is right up my alley:
https://www.cars.com/articles/the-floating-roof-is-sinking-1420693208910/
Even the Gen-2 has floating design element, where the side mirrors couldn't be left all-black or all-body color and are 1/2 blackened along with the bottom of the A-pillar so as to suggest they're attached only to the A-pillar and floating above the bottom car half.
To me, cramming all these unique details into every nook & cranny too often just seems to result in a distractingly cluttered batch of cliché's and design pollution.
Am I just cantankerously picky about car design (could be) or does anyone really like this floating roof idea? It's ok if you do!
