How do I make my model look less "N64-ish"

Help, I'm trying to make this Nissan Rogue but it looks crappy at 402 tris, is there any way to make it look less "n64" without doing subdivide?

 

What do you mean "crappy"?

 

oh, well I guess this vehicle is fine so far

 

Just add more polys. Subsurf would really help and there’s no shame using it in moderation

 

what would the settings for subsurf be like?

also I need help, how do I fix this?

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nvm I don't wanna use subsurf since it makes my model look like crap

 

Try to recalculate the normals.

 

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how do I do that? (i forgot)

 

Edit mode, select everything, ctrl shift n, funny because with one model today I had to recalculate normals but it still continued to give errors so help would be appreciated

 

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hanks

 

I think you shouldn’t focus on cars first. Here’s what you do.

First thing. *finish this car model all the way though*. I can’t stress how much you should

second, take a basic blender modeling tutorial