# Valet Auto Review: Editorial **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valet-auto-review-editorial/508986 "2009-09-05T20:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valet-auto-review-editorial/508986/1 "2009-09-05T20:00:15Z")
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](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://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](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](http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/win-pics-amc-gremlin.jpg) And these two: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/1st-Subaru-Outback.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/1st-Subaru-Outback.jpg) [http://thegarageblog.com/garage/wp-content/uploads/03audiallroadquattro500.jpg](http://thegarageblog.com/garage/wp-content/uploads/03audiallroadquattro500.jpg) From this: [http://www.amxfiles.com/amcpix/eagle83.jpg](http://www.amxfiles.com/amcpix/eagle83.jpg) This: [http://www.ridesnw.com/wp-content/UserFiles/Image/1999LexusRX300/1999-Lexus-RX-300-1.jpg](http://www.ridesnw.com/wp-content/UserFiles/Image/1999LexusRX300/1999-Lexus-RX-300-1.jpg) and this: [![](http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/pictures/1979_AMC_Pacer.jpg) ](http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/pictures/1979_AMC_Pacer.jpg) Indeed the designer of this: [http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-pqr/porsche-928-red-3.jpg](http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-pqr/porsche-928-red-3.jpg) admits he was inspired by the pacer! Your thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valet-auto-review-editorial/508986/2 "2009-09-05T20:48:02Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![MarkofT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MarkofT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkofT)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valet-auto-review-editorial/508986/3 "2009-09-06T01:10:44Z")
Hate to tell you this, but the Toyota Matrix/Pontiac Vibe are just scale reproductions of the Pontiac Aztec minivan.