I was really excited by that first 2006 Civic. All the iterations since have been backwards steps, leaning more on affected styling and aggressive lines than genuinely handsome proportions.

Why do you hate curved glass?

Even the Honda Accord 4-door has never had an extra window back there (except the 5th generation Euro-spec model).

Well, it’s an extra panel to account for—measure, cut, place, etc.—with great precision. The material is not the expensive part, but the labor.

The Ford Focus 4-door has had a fixed window back there since its first generation, though.

At least the Camry has precedence for that cue. It’s retro!

You’d think they could take the trash out of the seats before taking the picture.

Ah, but the Maybach S600 will look dated, too, given enough time. For one thing, the diamond stitched upholstery (especially on the center tunnel) looks like the padding out of freight elevator.

I think I saw this guy on the Jawa sandcrawler in A New Hope.

The Civic now has a window beyond the rear doors in Sedan form. It is officially a Big Car.

Or maybe both cars are going the same direction and one of them has a really tall reverse gear like a certain other Mitsubishi.

That’s awful, but it’s probably the least of the offenses here. This console looks like hell.

How in the world are we seeing motion blur on the road, yet the two cars coming and going are razor sharp?

There, I fixed it.

It’s a racing Suburban!

The exposed grain makes me more hesitant to guess that it’s just a wood veneer, for sure.

Yeah, I was going by the suggestion that it was a “new” car, which eliminated the possibility in my mind of it being a car from 2006.

It’s a 4th generation Acura TL, 2012-ish.

Acura TL

I’m trying to understand what’s happening to the right edge of these decks. They look...truncated.