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Well the Crosstour is ready for production and doesn’t look nearly as good as this. But, like all concept cars the Lexus LF-Ch won’t look nearly as good as the above. So, I’m guessing Toyota will ruin this concept with something ugly.
Side mirrors?
It will be able to vacuum your rugs in 15 minutes.
Okay, no witty one liners or zingers from me; no rim shot, either.
What the HELL is going on with auto designers today?
How many truly fugly cars have we seen so far this year?
Are auto designers dropping acid and working to the background music of Led Zeppelin or Cream?
Ack! Someone please reincarnate Harley Earl, Giorgetto Giugiaro and William Lyons straight away! We need designers with a sense of vision, passion, proportion and beauty again.
OK, Lincoln Concept C: Game on!
So are those jowls on the outsides of the front bumper supposed to be fog lights or air intakes? Or do you stick bread in there and the LF-Ch shoots toast in through the sunroof of the car in front of you?
Ouch. That must have hurt.
Lexus concepts are usually pretty close to the real thing, if i remember correctly the GS and LS concepts cars were virtually identical to the production spec, so it’s possible not too much will change besides the obvious headlights/wheels/side mirrors etc
Looks meh. I guess Lexus’ designers figured out that nothing could help them gain traction in Europe, so they didn’t bother to make a really interesting design.
What the HELL is going on with auto designers today?
No, the real problem is with the executives who sign off on their acid-induced ego trips. Chris Bangle is nothing if his boss at BMW says “Nein!” or “Halt!” just once.
I mean, surely someone higher-up at Honda has a set of functional eyeballs… and an operational sense of taste… and the Crosstour never sees the light of day.
Great. Now another manufacturer praying to the gods of sportiness. My favourite: the Euro-only Skoda Fabia, a quintessential senior citizen mover, which is billed in the sales brochures as “sporty” despite a 70-hp 1.2 litre engine. I’m confident the wiper motors in a Porsche have more oomph.
Do the good people at Lexus realise that their core clientele want restrained elegance and comfort, comfort, comfort? Does a new Lexus absolutely have to look like an angry pimped-up Hornet?
It has jowls, kinda like an English bulldog. I wonder if the car will perform better if someone were to hide M&M’s in the jowls before starting it in the morning? Still, not as smiley as the new Mazda 3. Cars are becoming so happy these days!
Remember when the Predator removed his mask to garner the comment from Arnold? (“You’re one… *ugly* motherf#$%^!)
Just add dreadlocks.
Does anyone remember the bent-metal abominations that came out of Detroit (and normally out of GM) in the late fifties and early sixties? I was at a classic car show and the overwhelming impression I got from metal of that era is that designers of today ain’t got nothing on “overwrought, overstyled and over-chromed”.
Particularly towards the mid-sixties the average American car looked like a chrome-festooned cutting board with a tiny little cabin glued on the top.
This is actually quite tame, by comparison. It’s just that we’ve come out of a quarter-century of utilitarianism that it looks overdone.
Take away the cheese grater class “brake scoops” in the front bumper and paint it a color other than “disco acid flashback” and I kind of like it.
Sweet Jesus, don’t put that on facebook
discoholic…the American manufacturers have known for years that even minivans and pickups can be sporty. You write the word SPORT on the sides and put on a body-colored grille.
Someone else said it – and it may have been on here – but ever since then, I can’t help but see all the newest car models as Angry Insects.
That is basically the modern school of car design in a nutshell. Insects with tailored angry or cartoon-happy faces. And my 370Z is no exception – I love the overall form, but the insectizoid detailing is just getting out of hand.
What happened to allowing cars to look like cool *machines*?
@shaker, that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking when I saw the front of this car. Great minds think alike! In case somebody hasn’t seen Predator and doesn’t know what we’re talking about…
http://www.canpages.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/haircut_predator.jpg
+1 Shaker
+1 Redwood
First thing that crossed my mind.
Those must be bug zappers on the left and right. Bugs diverted by the curved bumper are immediately electrocuted and fall into convenient pull out trays that can be emptied by your local Lexus dealer during routine service.
This is sort of what I was getting at:
http://www.1ofakindstuff.com/Childs-Predator-Mask.html