The Aptera gets very high marks from me for aesthetic design - as it should, being physics-driven. But ... I would give the rear side marker lights a slight curve to fit into the organic fuselage shape, or shorten them, perhaps. To me, they appear to be a hard straight line drawn at the end of a very fluid surface. A bit of discord at the end of a measure, if you will. Maybe they look better up close and personal, which I am quite anxious to see.
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I favor the rear side marker lights to be perfectly horizontal. The main time they will be noticed will be at night. If they are sloping upward or downward, they will look like they came loose and accidently twisted. Plus at night, no body curves are visible to blend with.
Also, on the Noir, the two segments forming the side marker light, did not perfectly line up with each other. I am not worried about this considering this is the first vehicle.
New pictures from the side tell me it's OK. The "problem" appearance is when seen from front-side view. Off my list of worries.
I found a picture of the Aptera taken from behind and to the left of the car (See General Discussion/vehicle-production-and-manufacturing) From that position, it looks like the side light is placed along the belt-line). It also looks nearly level to the ground. The comment just below the picture indicates that the beta prototype will have a more narrow tail vertical section. I guess I'll stay tuned and check how it looks after the curtain goes up on it....
I was thinking the same thing. I don't necessarily have a better idea, but another pass on that design element would be worthwhile if no tooling has been committed yet.