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This is the most correct of any and all lists.

I can’t get over how fucking awful that face is. They completely ruined it.

Not a Jeep!  I kind of dig the last couple renders, but that vehicle is hideous.

Personally, I think the homage part is missing from the new Bronco design. Which may be OK as actual off road ability is perhaps a truer homage.

Full disclosure time... Read more

I think the old Wagoneers are ugly as shit. Of course the new ones are also god awful ugly.

Lovely take on this topic!!  Read more

Exactly, they could have had a decent nod to the old ones, which seems to be a hit right now. The Vette is hideous too and it could have been pretty. Ford is gonna print money. Speaking of printing money, the FJ Cruiser with a removable top etc.. would have been amazing and would have brought it to Wrangler a long… Read more

Thank you for your A/B/C/D/Roof analysis and including photos for your examples. As a reward for somehow not getting Kinja’d here is an example of Jaguar using the B pillar as an air duct.

its dead backwards for me. Why imply that the roof is floating if the A-pillar is also floating? What, the roof is “attached” to the b-d pillars only and the front is cantilever, like a 30's rolls royce? That’s just plain stupid.

I’m not saying it looks better with the wood. But I’m not saying it looks worse (especially the last designs).

What you need to do is add screens to the outside of the car and have it project the wood trim. This would have multiple benefits. You could change the wood color or type - make it shiny or mat. Tons of benefits. Read more

I prefer this, coming from the CEO of FCA, Sergio Marchionne, while there were still some Commanders on dealer lots: Read more

The Geo Storm was not a Suzuki. It was a rebadged Isuzu Impulse. They also had a rebadged Toyota Tercel, in the form of the Geo Prism.

I feel bad for anyone who was a GM dealer technician in those days.

There was an Acura branded Trooper though.

I’m sorry, but boomers aren’t going to buy that mower. It’s mid-engine. 

They wear jean shorts while mowing the grass anyway, seems reasonable to me.

1st gear: The Passport was a rebadged Rodeo, not a Trooper Read more

Neutral: GM Honda Partnership:

Wouldn’t the Saturn Vue Redline be a more recent collab?