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Yup, Honda’s a glutton for Facebook punishment. After pulling the previous page to remove literally hundreds of disses against HoMoCo’s new Crosstour, the brand’s webmasters have gone for the red, red whine. The new images on the new page show the red Crosstour featured on the company’s official website. Which seems to have changed precisely nothing about autoblogosphere’s opinion of the CUV’s ugly ass—I mean, “controversial” styling. “New pictures prove to be more horrible than the first,” Facebooker Lewis Desoto opines, re-opening the decidedly one-sided “debate” dogging the, uh, you know. Punctuation-challenged Terrence Lee says, “the new pictures just shows how uglier this car can get !” Ditto Honda’s ongoing PR debacle.
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Oh its sooo much better now. I’d hate to see the comments for a ZDX fan page. That is literally the ugliest car I’ve ever seen. The Aztec could pick up girls at a bar if it went with the ZDX.
Sadly, the ZDX is the better design of the 2.
The new page already has 40 comments, most unflattering. Apparently they’ve already turned off the “comments”.
The Crosstour is very nearly as ugly as a Fusion
Dynamic88
Thanks for the clarification. Text amended.
This thing is quite svelte…
…for a Humpback Whale.
I don’t get why there is such a big shock over the Crosstour. Everything Honda/Acura has unfurled over the past two years has been mercilessly beaten with the ugly stick.
It sucks that North America isn’t getting the Euro Accord Wagon, but what did people expect a Honda kammback’d CUV to look like? It’s not like Honda is Alfa-Romeo.
It isn’t “that” ugly, is it? Looks a bit like that new Bimmer to me.
Let’s say the Crosstour is the “Ugly Betty” of vehicles. The ZDX, then, would be the “It’s Alive” of vehicles.
The fun part are the photos and comments “fans” have posted
If anyone shows up at my house driving one, they’re going have to park in front of the neighbors.
AAAHHHH…My eyes my eyes!!!!!!
Honestly Honda, as much as I find your cars a delight to drive (I drove a ’92 Civic in college), this is just….wrong. Kill it now while you still can. Please.
You can still comment on all the images, and on the main page. But you have to hit “Become a Fan” to comment.
Red paint in natural landscapes??? You’re supposed to do two things to mask the ugliness of Crosstour-like vehicles: paint it black and use targeted, high impact lighting.
Of course, when that fails, do what the turd-polishing geniuses did for the Chrysler Sebring.
The Crosstour is very nearly as ugly as a Fusion
I was going to say…there is A LOT of Ford in that front end…
BMW and Honda are in a Faustian Bargin to justify the X6, somehow!!
The Crosstour and the ZDX are products of the same reskinning process that GM performed with it’s Lambda platform. Despite the size of the hole that GM has dug for itself, at least the Lambda derivatives look good. I think Honda, like Toyota, is starting to pull a classic GM, where they ride the coattails of their previous fortunes and phone it all in from here. I sincerely hope that this laziness dies off after one generation.
it looks kind of like Snail Car – http://bit.ly/uL3rX
The Panamera doesn’t seem so bad now, does it?
The sad part in all this is Honda’s denial. What they have is solid, definitive proof that most people wouldn’t drive this car if you payed them to do so. Yet, rather than accepting the feedback and learning from it, they just plug their ears and say, “LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”
I’ve yet to see an automaker which has fully realized the vast potential of the Internet as a marketing/feedback tool.
It’s a shame Facebook doesn’t have the option to choose “do not like this” or “thinks this is horrible.” And the comments have been turned off.
I think it’s safe to presume that Honda is the new AMC in your fun branding game.
The S2000 died and here is where the resources went?
It is slightly less offensive he the ZDX, if obly for the hideousness of he current acra grill.
P71_CrownVic: “…there is A LOT of Ford in that front end…”
I was going to say the same, and after going to the FB page, and looking at the RR view photo of the car, I’d also say there is a lot of Porsche in the roof-line and RR window.
BTW, what is up with that big shiny black panel above the RR license plate?
The only thing that can make this uglier is if they tack on the grill from the Ridgeline/Pilot.
I’ve got $20 that says they do it within a year.
@Pariah: No, they don’t have “solid, definitive proof that most people wouldn’t drive this car if you payed them to do so.” What they have solid, definitive proof of is that those people that care fairly deeply about cars — 99.9999% of whom wouldn’t consider even sitting in a “crossover” vehicle — wouldn’t drive it. There’s a very significant difference there.
It’s the first Honda of the ’10s!
It looks like the front 3/4s of a Chevy Citation, with retarded grafted onto the back.
I like it. I haven’t heard any intelligent critique of the design, only me too band wagon jumping.
Most criticsm seems to focus on the rear lines and the grill.
the grill is in proportion to the body. Any smaller and it wil look pinched and unbalanced with the rest of the vehicle.
The trunk’s sloping lines trade sportiness for storage. I’m willing to accept that trade. A few degrees down angle changes the look but I don’t think it justifies all the negative comments.
The fact is that the squareback wagon design is decades old. I expect innovation from Honda, not reheated European leftovers.
I like Hondas and I have owned three, but that doesn’t mean that they can build an ugly car and their loyal customers will just swallow it. Sometimes I have to wonder if Honda doesn’t understand that?
@michaelb1 :
The fact is that the squareback wagon design is decades old.
And fastbacks are so 2009?
To be fair, it has a little bit of CRX in it’s fastback. I don’t think that’s the problem. The main problems are:
a) huge grille
b) rides too high
c) overstyled rear end (taillight shape, upkink behind the C-pillar…)
Come on, Honda. Hondas are supposed to be
-reasonably priced
-fun to drive (good handling, perfect manual transmission)
-technologically advanced
-light
This is just a tall-riding bloatmobile. Soichiro is rotating in his grave.
Counter-clockwise.
I think the Crosstour is decent looking, except those decidedly non-sporty wheels. If people will buy that uglified new Pilot, they’ll buy the Crosstour.
I have to wait until Robert Cumberford tells me how the SupposiTour looks.