1. Rubbing strips and two-tone paint schemes. When car designers paint the entire door one color and as Crashburn and others note they shrink the greenhouse, the side of the car turns into an ugly slab and you have to tart it up Bangle-style to give it interest.

How the hell is a 180-inch (15-foot long) X3 or CR-V a "mini-ute" or a "compact SUV"? A Daihatsu Terios at 160 inches is a mini SUV. Just how fat do Americans need their cars?

Rob P++.

Ahh, memories. My stepmom had a black Z28 with stripes and replaced it with a red IROC-Z. They had problems with the monstrous rear glass, but hey it was a hatchback! Both were nice enough cars for rumbling around LA, I remember they had an uncertain relationship to the road that discouraged any sudden moves.

d'oh, I meant hydrofoil not aerofoil!

Back when we lived Oakland

Compare the head-on with the original orange-bronze CAD photorealistic rendering. I've never seen vision remain so pure on the road.

I recall when Honda announced their Integrated Motor Assist hybrid technology, they said they would eventually add the "mild hybrid" version to all their cars.

MurileeMartin,

spicy_tuna,

detroit9000, 78TLC,

Ahhh, the return of balls-out crazy Golfs!! For too long we've seen $50000 jobs on $100000 cars.

all Z3 Coupes never had anything but child-barers

Farmers growing this aren't growing food crops, so it's still somewhat in competition with your stomach.

How could the General's High Value pushrod engine not win!? C'mon, the LZE 3500 V6 gets 224 hp @ 5800 rpm and 220 ft·lbf @ 4000 rpm. Awesome!!! The voting's rigged by beret-wearing schnitzel-eaters.

The @lascauxcaveman-mobile with AWD, or a @sandwich_pants Mazda3.

@rgseidl:

.@adidascrosscountry wrote when an officer indicates to you to stop and pull over, you stop pronto. Period.

That rear looks Japanese, a Mitsubishi Galant design exercise. The swelling front fenders are defiantly non-functional but they match the rear haunches nicely. Does the grille phallus have to protrude so obscenely? No doubt it all works "in the flesh".

@Seth L,