Quote - I really do not like the V4 default shape at all and this also translates through to the majority of characters I've seen.

This is pretty unanimous, I think. And it may be deliberate. Giving Vicky a nondescript, boxy default shape (and shipping her with a los-res default texture with ugly lo-res purple bikini and butch hair painted on) is actually a very effective way to get users to head right out to the marketplace and buy stuff to make Vicky more appealing.

By the way, I think it's interesting that  many of the vendors who make the sexiest V4 characters are female. Same goes for the "hot" outfits, sometimes referred to by the more jaded among us as slutwear or skimpwear. It shows that the V4 marketplace is not just about men doing stuff to suit their own tastes. (It could be argued that the women are doing stuff to empty men's wallets, but I'd like to think they are also fulfilling their own ideas of what is hot).