jesse
@ July 11, 2009


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You know what really grinds my gears? Cars that are allegedly "boxy." Like these cars.



If you were a production designer on a Syfy Channel original production, and needed to create a car that looked like it was from the not-to-distant future, but you only had a budget of $75, and you also sucked at your job, then I imagine that this is what you would end up with. But instead, three different car companies have invested millions in production design to come up with a car that looks like it has a learning disability.

See that one on the right? The one that looks like it should be called the Nissan Special Needs? They actually went so far as to call it the Nissan Cube. The Cube, Nissan? NO. NO. THIS IS A CUBE.


THIS IS A CUBE. CUBE. CUBE. HYPERCUBE.



The point is, you can't make a car that is a cube, and then say, "oh no, if we make a car that is a cube, it will have dangerously sharp corners and we'll have nowhere to put the wheels" and then puss out and round it all off, but then still call it a cube as if nothing happened. Your car is, AT BEST, a pair of rectangular prisms set next to each other with their corners rounded with a varying radius of curvature.

Is that too much of a mouthful for you, Nissan? Well, you're in luck, because I've invented a name for just that shape. It's called the Fugly. You're welcome.

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Ugly though it might be, the Scion version is awesome. AWESOME. Very, very comfortable.

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