Ugliest 4X4

[rocket man]

GAWD! I hope that is not what the future of new cars will look like.....

If I was a car and had a rough nite of guzzling cheap gas and woke up the next morning with that FJ sleeping next to me I think I'd have to chew off my tire to get away!!!!

[VX4EJR]

If I was a car and had a rough nite of guzzling cheap gas and woke up the next morning with that FJ sleeping next to me I think I'd have to chew off my tire to get away!!!!

Ahhhh yes.....reminds me of college....minus the gas and tire thing though.

[tbigity]

lol rocket.

To costie. I think you are on to something, just a couple years late. While that particular look may not be the future of cars, I think that CONCEPT is, and has been for a while. I am not sure if it stems from a lack of good designers, so inept they can't come up with their own designs, or if it is the opposite - genius designers realizing the perfection of things past and drawing on that in modern designs. Anywho, the concept I refer to is using retro styling in new models. One of the first cars I can think of to do this was the Escalade...once they got on their own chasis and off of the tahoe chassis. They had a very retro caddy interior, the big, overstated, round analog gauges and gear-like bezels. Soon after, the idea transferred itself to the exterior of cars. Many sportscars are doing it: charger, mustang, thunderbird, new camaros, ssr, hhr, pt cruiser. While I don't particularly like all of these, they all have very distinguishable retro features.

This is why I disagree with those saying the FJ is a "new" look in cars...while it may be the first time that the retro styling was applied to a body so large, it is technically old hat.

I just plain like 'em!

[rocket man]

Rodger that TBIGITY

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", someone once said,

Heck if we all had the same taste in women we'd all be fighting over the same lady

Anyway when all is said and done we both agree on the VX.

John