Whats the deal with Chrome? (F150, tires, trucks, engine)

[ughhnyc]

The chrome dipped plastic trim on many of the mid tier luxury cars is ridiculously ugly.

I really don't know what auto manufacturers are thinking. Even Tesla has managed destroy the look of their cars with plastic chrome trim strips.

Every vehicle i've bought in the past 15 years a special or sport model that had carbon fiber trim.

Even fake carbon fiber plastic would look a thousand times better than this plastic chrome.

[Electrician4you]

Originally Posted by ukrkoz

It's SHIIIIINY! Peeps don't know that not all that glitters is not gold.
OP, seriously. It's appealing to low taste, as anything else shiny. Simply tells you level of average buyer taste. To the point that now even HONDA chromes its cars.

Chrome or polished metal looks great on crew cab dually trucks. Chrome at one time used to mean refined and upscale. It didn't used to be low taste. IMO still isn't. Although it depends. If your truck looks like it went through the accessory isle at Pep Boys and you stuck everything on the truck yeah. But a nice chrome grille and door moldings or door handles I dont see a issue.
But as today's taste seems to be monochrome so shiny chrome looks "wrong"

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by ajonesaz

Does anyone actually like the blinged out chrome look?

Yes.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by ajonesaz

Chrome belongs here and it is used well - but on lower end midsize sedans?

Chrome grills are ok, chrome emblems are ok, but the fake chrome side vents and other chrome for the sake of chrome doesn't look good at all.

Check this out. LOL

[carcrazy67]

Plenty of chrome on my 67 GTO. I rather like it!

[unit731]

Chrome always meant luxury.
Back then and today.


Marketing departments at all of the manufacturers know what sells and what does not. Who the target market is.


If you don't like chrome then don't buy the car. It's that simple.

[coschristi]

Originally Posted by notnamed

Not counting entire vehicle wraps anyway.

I saw a guy driving one of those a few months ago. I'm a girly-girl & my first thought was "OOOOOH...PRETTY!"

He was stopped at a red light that I was approaching from a T-bone (3-way) type intersection. As iI got closer the light changed & he just sorta...disappeared...as traffic started moving.

Maybe it was an optical illusion? It was evening rush hour on an overcast day...

I don't care how pretty it was; that thing was dangerous. I want other drivers to be able to see me.

[d4g4m]

And what happened to 'anodized'? The dull black on trim pieces and door handles and portions of wheels.

[eddie1278]

[Boris347]

Originally Posted by ajonesaz

We have been car shopping recently and it seems like EVERY car that is not a base model is loaded with chrome!

We used to call chrome the "auto zone special" and it use to only grace beaters in the not so great areas of town.

Chrome door handles are awful, they show fingerprints. Does anyone actually like the blinged out chrome look?

"Shiny" sells. Its a fact, Not for all folks, but for the Majority. Its kind of like an "Animal Instinct." Many Animals are drawn to "shiny? "Man" is one of them. We may not know it, or admit it, but it is true. The people in high places that build cars know this. It also gives a perception of Value, even if the item is not valuable. We all will turn and look at a Truck that's been decked out in Chrome, with Chrome Bars, Wheels, Exhaust, Steps, and Shocks, as it goes by, but ignore the same truck if it was stock, with no chrome, as it goes by. There are many Animals that will steal and collect Chrome items. I know there are some folks that like that mean, lean. dark, look, but many more like the Chrome trim look, including Bikers, Truckers, and Boaters.


If you took a New Chevy 4WD Step side, with no Chrome at all, and took another one exactly the same, and decked it out in all the chrome you could get, which one do you think most folks would choose?