I’ll start with the Porsche 997, the 996 looked alright imo, but it looks “like a 90s Porsche”, the 997 made it look sleeker and more modern. Still looks good today.
As for cars that looked worse after a facelift? Maybe the facelifted 6th gen Camaro? The 6th gen looked great pre-facelift, but they did something weird with the headlights and now it looks so-so…
Yeah, the old one just had the fog light with no surrounding detail. I do still think the new design looks better, even if it’s a fake vent, but I can agree that they could have come up with something better
Only surrounding detail was the grooves in the bumper introduced in 2012 versus the flat look in the original design.