Overall looks nice but I am admittedly a bit disappointed they have dumbed down the sexy bonnet with clunkier looking light clusters and hardware store grab bars. The same thing happened in NY with the R-211 production car looking substantially less "future" than the exciting prototypes depicted. This 8000 series car on display looks to be the actual production design instead of the cleaner and edgier Hitachi renderings released a couple years back. It's frustrating that vision never seems to make it to reality in this country with transit rolling stock like it seems to be able to oversees. Great industrial design has a habit of being undervalued and undelivered this side of the Atlantic. That said I do think the new BART cars look great.
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