For export sales, many countries have license plates that are much larger or wider than ours.

Today’s Industrial Design lesson: Have you ever heard of the concept “form follows function”? It sounds like you feel the need to be “entertained” by extraneous creases, bulges, swoops, chrome, and fake vents. Prime considerations for a quality automotive design are function, careful manipulation of volume, proporti…

My first car as a 16 year old in Tokyo was a ‘62 Mazda Carol. It was a 360cc Kei Jidosha (light vehicle) with a mighty 18 hp. Top speed was about 57 mph. The first car I “drove” was sitting on my Dad’s lap as an 8 year old, steering his ‘54 Chrysler New Yorker in San Francisco.

The obvious question is, why not address the reason you feel the need to look rich. That may be the real problem.

Looks to me like a military utility vehicle, not an SUV.

Or the hood is good and the rest of the car is misaligned.

What do you mean? The Photoshop work of the car on the tarmac is perfect. They’re obviously depicting a car with both passenger side wheels missing. The perspective is perfect!

If your job required you to move and sell your house which is next door to the trailer guy, how easy do you think it would be to sell at fair market price. Think it doesn’t matter? Right!

I don’t know how long the author has lived in Japan but I’m surprised he doesn’t get that Kei Jidosha have a reason for being. Tokyo and most other Japanese cities can be very congested and some streets can be very narrow. Parking spaces are often difficult to come by as is off street parking where you live. In some…