Toyota hardly competing with Ferrari, but I found it funny that both stumbled onto the same front end. 

Ruggedification of compact/subcompact CUVs. Especially if they’re decked out in tacky matte surfaces even though they barely have more ground clearance than their sedan counterparts. Who are they even fooling?

Marconi Museum in Tustin, which houses the private collection of a nutritional supplement mogul, all tucked away in an industrial block. It has some real oddities like the only Ferrari FX not owned by Brunei royals, a Ferrari 456GT Venice Spider, an Aston Martin DB AR1 Zagato Roadster, a Cizeta V16T, Jaguar XJ220-S,…

You gotta appreciate the commitment to the bit. 

Nissan S-Cargo. Out of the cute Nissan quartet of 80s and 90s, I was thinking that maybe the Be-1 was the cutest, but S-Cargo and its whimsical name and the funky shape edges out. Can you imagine not smiling coming across one on the road?

This might seem like a weird answer, but let me make a case for late 90s Daewoo. Now Daewoo is rightly maligned as a company what with its once fugitive boss, financial crises, and shoddy build quality; but right before the parent group collapsed in 1998 in the Asian financial crisis, Daewoo commissioned Italian…

Back in the day when Pininfarina was Ferrari’s go-to design house, they built numerous semi-official limited runs of heavily modified or basically brand new Ferrari models, famously for the members of Brunei monarchy, such as the 456GT Venice wagon and convertible. The crown jewel of these project was the FX supercar,…

Gotta take his word for it since he literally built the Viper, but I can’t imagine when in BMW Z1's development it would’ve had those headlight clusters. Like... the process would’ve been far enough along to justify tooling for a production run of those headlights, so there must have been a Z1 prototype or a clay…

That lower fascia makes it look like a knock off Benz more than any other Genesis model - some of which looked intentionally like low rent MBs. 

Mazda 3. I know Mazda makes the MX-5, but idk the 3 looks better and I kinda miss convertibles versions of mass sale mid-small sized cars.

I also want a Mazda... the final gen Cosmo coupe (ended production in 1995). As I get older, I just want a big, stylish, luxe coupe more than anything, and Cosmo is just interesting enough and looks astonishingly good in two tone trim.

I don’t know if the recent range was actually well all that received, but I feel like Hyundai actually had a squashed hexagonal grille thing for like a decade as its signature before that one. 

It’s absolutely the same unit. You can even match where the texture changes on the turn indicator and the strip above it. At the very least the same supplier. 

I see your truck and raise you a bus with 3-Series headlights.

Just looked it up.

That lighting unit exists on chassis #59. I think it’s the only one to have HID lights?

Yup. The rebuilt original prototype shows what could’ve been...

The Alpine taillights also showed up on the 90s Lotus Elan, which also shares its front indicator lamps with McLaren F1, one of which shares the headlight lenses with the BMW Z1. It’s like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with cars.

Going down a rabbit hole now...

Ferrari FX looks like it’s wearing another car’s headlights, but I don’t know what.