Valet Auto Review: Editorial

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Instead of reviewing some car I parked last night, I will report on a rather notorious trend in today’s auto design:

Automakers are ripping off old AMC designs.

Behold:
http://www.supafly.com/images/journal/bmw_X6_amc_Eagle.jpg

And here’s two different copy’s:
http://www.autofans.us/images/Nissan/2008%20Nissan%20Rogue%204.jpg
http://media.nextautos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/2009-toyota-matrix-livehl-001.JPG
copied off of this:
http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/win-pics-amc-gremlin.jpg

And these two:

http://thegarageblog.com/garage/wp-content/uploads/03audiallroadquattro500.jpg
From this:
http://www.amxfiles.com/amcpix/eagle83.jpg

This:
http://www.ridesnw.com/wp-content/UserFiles/Image/1999LexusRX300/1999-Lexus-RX-300-1.jpg
and this:

Indeed the designer of this:
http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-pqr/porsche-928-red-3.jpg
admits he was inspired by the pacer!

Your thoughts?

2

Hard to tell for sure from those pictures, but I get the impression I wouldn’t be able to fit comfortably into a single one of those (I’m 6’4" tall – 193 cm for non-Americans).

3

Hate to tell you this, but the Toyota Matrix/Pontiac Vibe are just scale reproductions of the Pontiac Aztec minivan.