At one time, I was a huge Honda fan. They were just amazing cars. And I know that Honda is still a good vehicle, but yesterday, as I passed the Honda dealership, I was amazed to see the new Honda Ridgeline truck. I am not sure whether or not they decided to hire some designers from GM (which has some of the ugliest cars ever designed … Chevy Avalanche … Pontiac Aztec anyone?) but this truck ranks right up there in the ugly category. That category is no stranger to most car manufacturers, but recently Honda has come out with a string of unattractive vehicles. [Now keep in mind that these are somewhat innovative and may even be good, durable cars, but the truth is that they are not attractive vehicles.] Here are my top three:
The Honda Insight… amazing gas mileage for sure, but why did they have to make their hybrid (an awesome idea) some sort of futuristic, bizarre-looking ugly vehicle?
The Element – again, another cool idea, just a poorly executed design. They were aiming at young people and ended up hitting seniors. That was funny to me.
The Ridgeline Truck – the newest casuality of the Honda designers. What’s with the back of that thing? It looks like an Avalanche knockoff.
What about the new civic?
http://motortrend.com/autoshows/coverage/112_05_chicago_civicsi/
Your nuts… the element is hott (2 T hot factor)… yeah the insight is certainly you-glee but I also like the boxiness of their new pickup truckeroo. silly wonderbox. word.
Yeah dude, what’s up with that? Is Honda going down hill? I thought Americans bought them out and started making them. Is that true?