My god, it is hideous. makes the crosstour look attractive. It actually reminds me of the rambler or studebaker that gets posted occasionally (the weird wagon with the reverse D pillar) .
maybe it won't be as nasty in person, but I doubt it.
All Honda has to do is botch the pending Civic redesign, and they will have successfully converted their entire product line into stuff that ranges from ugly and ungainly (Accord, Pilot) to downright strange and gagable (everything else!)
Oh, the CRV is not too bad, if you don't look at it from the front.
Here's a picture as a point of reference. Actually, it doesn't look too bad from this angle. Heck, it's a minivan, not a sports car. Of course the Crosstour and its Acura sister are grotesque! What were they thinking?
I totally agree with you about Honda. They sort of butchered Acura and now they're butchering the Honda lineup. The CRV is ok because it was redesigned around mid decade before Honda got hit with the ugly stick.
The current Odyssey looked good as a concept, but once translated into a production model, all the worst parts came out. It remind me of a car collage:
Yeah go ahead, no problem. It took me a few minutes to link the picutres correctly so sorry if you saw a messed up message before that. It should be good now.
Its funny, but the concept and production model both have the same sliding door track, yet the concept looks a lot cleaner due to what appears to be body color paint for the track itself. They seriously can't just do this to the production model? It would clean it up a lot...
Found myself following the IS350C, with the top up. Not good. Here's the only pic I could find (ignore the tape, etc), it does show what I think is a very lumpy rear :sick:
Looks pin-headed, but to be fair, it's very, VERY hard to style a folding hard top properly.
That's because they have to be made compact so they fold up and don't take up the whole trunk.
I own a Miata but I'll admit - the soft top looks better than the power retractable top. Even the old manual hard top looks better.
Kudos to Mazda engineers, at least - they top takes up zero trunk space. Same amount of space top up or down. And the hard top's trunk matches the soft top's.
Not only did Lexus get the proportions wrong (like they already had on the SC430), the rest of the rear 1/3 of the car looked all wrong. Truely a mess.
For some reason the SC reminds me of a (US) football...maybe because they had an interior option with football style leather. I think I have read they don't keep good body integrity as they age, at least on early models. Sadly, their favored demographic ruins in my eyes any merits the car could have.
Saw one of those in the flesh in Old Town Kissimmee, Florida, a couple of years ago. Very cool (and yes the hard top took nothing away from the styling).
Isolation isn't always a bad thing. As a passenger in a Lexus ES I was about as comfortable as I've ever been in any moving vehicle. I just wouldn't want to drive it.
There's a big market for it as Lexus has proven. I could have slept in a then year-old LS I rode in. As they say...there's a butt for every seat :shades:
A white one, in the wild, cruising the interstate (and seemingly keeping up) in Utah down around Provo. Texas plates. There was a fuchsia Nissan Cube right behind it advertising some local outfit. Made for an odd parade. 900 mile road trip yesterday, and that's all I noticed. :shades:
I'm actually crosshopping the XC60 and the Infiniti EX35. Drove both of them a few times and liked each of them for various attributes. Leaning more towards the XC Turbo but I'm waiting a few months to see how reliability shakes out before buying.
Oh ya, it's small. As are the rear seats. But my wife and I don't have any kiddies so rear seat space isn't a factor really. We'll more than likely use the cargo area with the seats folded than we would driving around passengers.
The thing that really draws us to it is the amazing powertrain and the tech features. Plus, here in New England they are offering 6000 - 6900.00 off MSRP.
They're terrible sellers, but they're perfectly kept secrets to those who are more about performance than utility.
While stuck in holiday traffic on Friday, I found myself behind a grey Lancia Delta Integrale. First one I had ever seen stateside, and it did not disappoint.
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My god, it is hideous. makes the crosstour look attractive. It actually reminds me of the rambler or studebaker that gets posted occasionally (the weird wagon with the reverse D pillar) .
maybe it won't be as nasty in person, but I doubt it.
All Honda has to do is botch the pending Civic redesign, and they will have successfully converted their entire product line into stuff that ranges from ugly and ungainly (Accord, Pilot) to downright strange and gagable (everything else!)
Oh, the CRV is not too bad, if you don't look at it from the front.
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Here's a picture as a point of reference. Actually, it doesn't look too bad from this angle. Heck, it's a minivan, not a sports car. Of course the Crosstour and its Acura sister are grotesque! What were they thinking?
Texases links the bizarre looking thing we'll get...front and rear halves appear to be from different cars.
To me it looks like the rear 1/3rd of the new Ody is falling off.
Saw 2 new E-class today, coupe and sedan. I'd call it a success now.
The current Odyssey looked good as a concept, but once translated into a production model, all the worst parts came out. It remind me of a car collage:
Concept:
Production:
It reminds me of a car collage:
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Indeed disappointing.
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Shewwww.... sound and fury... over 550 horsepower!
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Darker body colors will probably hide the sliding door track better, it's an eye sore IMHO.
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That's because they have to be made compact so they fold up and don't take up the whole trunk.
I own a Miata but I'll admit - the soft top looks better than the power retractable top. Even the old manual hard top looks better.
Kudos to Mazda engineers, at least - they top takes up zero trunk space. Same amount of space top up or down. And the hard top's trunk matches the soft top's.
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Aging boomers with golf bags? They're the only guys I see driving them.
Isolation isn't always a bad thing. As a passenger in a Lexus ES I was about as comfortable as I've ever been in any moving vehicle. I just wouldn't want to drive it.
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Also saw a new XC60, another looker.
Two best looking ones in that class, IMHO.
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The thing that really draws us to it is the amazing powertrain and the tech features. Plus, here in New England they are offering 6000 - 6900.00 off MSRP.
They're terrible sellers, but they're perfectly kept secrets to those who are more about performance than utility.
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Sharp!!!
Saw a Genesis yesterday...still an obscure sighting around here.
Still not sure how I feel about it... First time I've seen one outside of the showroom... It's definitely different..
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think it was the racey version of whatever they call the the hardtop version. Exige?
had a big wing on the back. Maybe that was aftermarket?
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I think they come that way:
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I could get past the styling if necessary. What I can't get past is the thing weighing 2.5 tons. That's just wrong!
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