Hi, I’m Jimmy from Jimmy’s Manure Delivery.  All of our vehicles are Dodge Journeys, because they’re crap before we even load anything in them.

If you honestly believe that, I’ve got some wonderful swamp property investment opportunities I’d love to discuss. It even has a couple of bridges I’ll throw in for a bargain price!

Mind you - I’m not saying it’s good - just less awful than what came later. Prettiest gal in the leper colony style.

You are perfectly correct, IMHO. I think it is better looking than most of the amorphous blobs out there today. Which is a sad statement of just how bad most of them are.

I’m sure Adrian Newey will come up with some sort of brilliant way to make flexible helmet aero bits, that somehow meet scrutiny during parc ferme, while MBZ will allow it’s drivers to move their visor with their tongues, in a completely legal manner but to the protest of every other team, and Ferrari will figure out…

Ugh. So much for cost control. Soon the richest teams will start swapping helmets three times a weekend while at Williams, Latifi and Russell will be left behind and have to share the same helmet.

This looks like a stagecoach

The Aztek is not an attractive car, but is one of the few cars out there where I find the concept far uglier than the production model, both inside and out:

to his credit he justified all three of those cars with bullet points on why he liked them. i can’t fault his enthusiasm. it’s just such a strong combination of hated cars! i wondered whether he was partway through his doppelgänger plotline, and the real guy was lost in the black lodge shouting NO GODDAMNIT I LIKE…

The hemmings article (here) actually just cites BMW Blog as its source. I didn’t see any Texaco-branded cars for 1973 myself, as much as I looked. They did get Esso tho! This is from the ‘73 Le Mans:

Agreed. Mazda’s current logo is okay, but the two before it were awful. Before then? Mazda had some lovely brand logos that would have endured the test of time, if given the chance, but they abandoned them for what was hip in the moment.

Unless there’s a fundamental shift in the business that muddles the logo’s message or they used some very period-specific styling in the first place

...or they used some very period-specific styling in the first place

I hate it.  But I’ll get used to it.  In fact, it’s sort of an improvement.  Actually I prefer it.  The next one after this will be terrible, surely.

Everything is going flat again and retro-simple. Go back to the 1963 version - no need to reinvent the wheel. Losing the black ring gives the logo less impact. This is just change for change’s sake and not for any good reason. Just read that stupid PR-quote to confirm that. Of course all the German cars I buy are 20+…

Here’s something completely irrational - I don’t trust anyone who decides to put even more branding on the inside of the car, let alone badges on the piano black of an Aston Martin center console.  CP all day long

The ad is too light on details, we get no shots under the hood, rims that scream “I make poor choices”, and it’s listed on a garage sale website?

100% agree.

This Mini-Griswold-Family-Truckster is not exactly a classic. It’s just a tired, old Fox body Ford wagon with a price from a “I know what I’ve got here” seller. CP on a train to Dearborn.