No, that’s not a Pontiac Vibe. It’s a Toyota Voltz. It’s real. No actual fucking clue why. Has Toyota heard of its own Matrix?

Yeah, that gauge was to measure the car’s Pontiacness, and as you know, there wasn’t even a needle to register any.

I had one of these, and it was fun. Not fun in a fun sports car kinda way, more fun in a “I drive a Yugo ironically” kinda way.

JD POWA

And you clearly don’t read because it was stated that the cop made an “educated guess” on the person’s speed and the cop was going below the speed limit when he was passed.

Yup. All these “look we’re not boring” antics... It’s like the over-the-hill dad—in baggy jeans and cockeyed New Era cap— greeting his teenage son at the after-school pick up line with, “yo, dawg, let’s roll!”

Let me attempt to ruin the mehness of your monday.

I would argue that Nissan is even worse.

Ford tried the micro grille in the 80's with “meh” results. They even tried a light.

Is it just me or do the Lexus, Audi and sort of Genesis look better with the smaller grilles? I think the Lexus looks better even with ONLY the functional bits and the Audi and Genesis are close to looking better, and would look much better with just a little nose restyling(the renders look awkward, but if the grille…

Not that long ago, starting maybe in the mid 80s, grilles were minimized even on sedans (let alone sports coupes), for just the reasons explained upthread. Rather little grille is needed for cooling airflow on a modern car. Then in recent years — it first hit me with pickup trucks — they became what they once had been…

That’s too easy. Here’s what’s left after you remove all of the CTR’s fake grilles

Man a few of these are actually massive improvements. The Genesis in particular (without the radar callout) is better, the lexus is better, the Audi I even somehow like more.

“1) It doesn’t fool anyone, anyone who sees it up close is going to be able to tell its a mutilated Celica.”

The problem I have with this is the same one I have with all such replicars.

I like the idea of Utterly Realistic Car Ads.

They’re all boring, because that is their purpose. Take an activity that can elicit a range of emotions, and strip everything away until it is so dull, you’ll just go to sleep.

I share this same concern. Once standards are created for rolling transportation modules they will have to behave exactly the same. Accelerate the same, brake the same, change lanes the same so they do not disturb the other sea of autonomous cars traveling at constant speed to their destinations. No point in having…

I say this all the time to anyone who will listen - no one makes beautiful cars anymore. Sure they look angry and mean and fast (and sometimes dumb as hell). But no one makes a straight up PRETTY car.

I mean... I mentioned essentially that exact study in the article. 

Dammit, does anyone read my words?! I toil over them just for you, my dear Jalopnotropes!