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Yup. “Frakkin’ Toaster!” is the first thing that comes to mind when I see that car.
You know the economy sucks when a luxury concept car looks like a Hyundai Elantra with bigger wheels and a lift kit.
Hideous.
“No, no, no… it needs more lines shooting off every which way. And creases, too. People love the creases!”
a car for the fascist state
It just screams luxury, doesn’t it?
The company’s really excited about complicated, difficult to design grilles lately. If ya’ll were curious about the thought process that resulted in “Death from level ground!” there.
Do machine guns pop out of the car too?
It has the same restrained, understated aura of sophistication and good taste that one would normally associate with a fine quality Japanese boombox.
Seriously, are there no adults left in the world?
That is one fugly car.
It’s just screaming out for a gold kit. And spinners.
I can’t tell if this reflects worse on Toyota, or their expectations of a target audience.
It’s no uglier than a lot of conceptual stuff you see at the shows. I just think it’s remarkable that they took their styling cues from Battlestar Galactica, is all.
Nine! es schreit, “lassen Sie uns Polen angreifen!”
You know the economy sucks when a luxury concept car looks like a Hyundai Elantra with bigger wheels and a lift kit.
I was going to say Hyundai Santa Fe, but yeah.
Um…yeah. Pass.
After looking at the various linked photos in the article, finding them not really better on aesthetic grounds than the Lexus, it would be a kindness if y’all would post a link or two to something pretty (not necessarily new), or cute, or inviting, something that can manage to wink back to our gaze.
Wisconsin, September.
Pretty and cute
or
Oak Glen, CA
I had in mind a car, not an MG, but still, nice pics gang.
well, sdferr, from my pov both are easy on the eyes.
That’s the ticket, allowing for the swing of course!
here’s a
mccainmaverickYarf . . . shudder
“Pretty and cute”
A leprechaun’s daughter posing for Maxim.
brrblebrrble ** inviting ** brrblebrrble
that exhaust looks exposed
idlin‘, advancin‘
oh my, sdferr, that’s wicked!
Then there’s the older other model, and the newer version
Crouching tree frog.
Is that the Decepticon symbol?
– Sort of RoboCops version of a Honda civic……
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It looks like the Infiniti FX-35 Sport Utility Turtle.
It also looks like someone drew a car, someone told them it had to be an SUV, so they just drew a line under the Lexus logo and stretched the image below that to make it taller.
It’s trying to turn into something, but I can’t figure out what.
All it needs is for the navigation system to have a toaster voice and respond to inputs with the appropriate verbiage.
…and then follow all turn instructions with, “…or be destroyed.”
Back before cars were designed by metrosexuals and homosexuals:
http://www.allpar.com/photos/dodge/challenger/TA.jpg
and, of course…
http://www.allpar.com/images/1964/pricing.jpg
[except, mine was white – w/ push button transmission]
You can blame the aggressive front end design on GM (like everything else). They started that look with their Cadillacs back about ten years ago.
The Chrysler 300 was also in that bag.
The Japanese saw we were willing to buy ugly cars and capitalized on it.
And here we are now: Transformer car!
Unfortunately your links go to a bum message Bob (due to allpar), but could it be that your second went to something akin to this, albeit possibly a bit less vroom-vroomy?
Is lexus still Japanese? I thought I read somewhere that Toyota builds 70% of their vehicles in the states now. Though that sounds high to me now.
I admit to having been unusually content with the “everything looks like a Buick/Oldsmobile sedan” era. And the mid-size rounded-eggy sedan era w just saw end wasn’t bad, just not as nice.
I would imagine that Toyota builds 70% of the cars sold here in the states. That sounds more reasonable.
Many Japanese cars are also sold as American brands. The Ford Ranger is the Mazda (used to be) B-2000. The Ford Probe was a Mazda, as well.
Honda also swaps frames with Isuzu. The Honda Quest and their SUV are on Isuzu frames, but the price is jacked up for the badging and brand name.
Lexus is licensed to Toyota and is sold at Toyota dealerships. Acura is Honda’s Lexus.
They are all built both in the US and Japan as well as partially in Canada and Mexico. Automobile manufacturing is a Just In Time model with assembly plants.
It’s all very confusing unless one has been in the business or is a motorhead.
My understanding was Lexus is a Toyota brand, owned outright — like Infiniti is by Nissan.
McGehee is correct about Lexus. Honda’s premium brand is the Acura.
Yes. That’s what I meant in my convoluted way. Lexus is a luxury brand owned by Toyota as Acura is to Honda.
I’ll learn this English thing one day.