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John Brown
John Brown SuperDork
3/6/09 7:16 a.m.

Simple game.

Name this vehicle (Industry insiders let me run with this please)

From CARS

From CARS

From CARS

From CARS

No prizes to be won, just seeing what YOU think it is.

93celicaGT2
93celicaGT2 HalfDork
3/6/09 7:17 a.m.

Bob the incredibly ugly-proportioned whale?

Tim Baxter
Tim Baxter Online Editor
3/6/09 7:19 a.m.

I think it's a new Monte Carlo based on the G8 platform.

John Brown
John Brown SuperDork
3/6/09 7:20 a.m.
93celicaGT2 wrote: Bob the incredibly ugly-proportioned whale?

Get used to it, they are all going to look like this in three years.

John Brown
John Brown SuperDork
3/6/09 7:20 a.m.
Tim Baxter wrote: I think it's a new Monte Carlo based on the G8 platform.

Nope, I am surprised you are going American.

John Brown
John Brown SuperDork
3/6/09 7:25 a.m.
racinginc215 wrote: I know what it is but I work for XX so I'll not answer.

Stock hit so low you had to sell your initials to cover?

szeis4cookie
szeis4cookie New Reader
3/6/09 7:26 a.m.

Lincoln MKS?

Grtechguy
Grtechguy SuperDork
3/6/09 7:27 a.m.

looks like a Buick.

93celicaGT2
93celicaGT2 HalfDork
3/6/09 7:28 a.m.

I think it's one of the Chinese cars.

Because they've blatantly ripped off both Buick, and the "Japanese Buick" Toyota. Even a little Hyundai in there.

walterj
walterj Dork
3/6/09 7:30 a.m.

Camry?

HappyAndy
HappyAndy Reader
3/6/09 7:33 a.m.

Is Toyota buying Buick from GM? Looks like a lexus/buick

AngryCorvair
AngryCorvair Dork
3/6/09 7:34 a.m.

gotta be chinese. i see both buick and lincoln in the grille, toyota in the headlights, buick in the side view, saturn in the taillights, and maybe some more lincoln in the exhausts.

not horrible, just horribly generic.

get your kids in chinese classes now. maybe they'll be interpreters instead of slaves.

P71
P71 Dork
3/6/09 7:35 a.m.

New Chinese Buick.

Rustfinger
Rustfinger New Reader
3/6/09 7:47 a.m.
Grtechguy wrote: looks like a Buick.

+1

Volksroddin
Volksroddin HalfDork
3/6/09 8:09 a.m.

Chevy Tahoe

Chris_V
Chris_V SuperDork
3/6/09 8:14 a.m.

http://jalopnik.com/5125035/2010-buick-lacrosse-blue-hair-no-more

I actually like it quite a bit, for what it is.

Carson
Carson HalfDork
3/6/09 8:15 a.m.

Coming from Mr. Brown it's probably a Passat.

John Brown
John Brown SuperDork
3/6/09 8:20 a.m.

I am REALLY digging the new lines of cars from MANY manufacturers, I really like the shape of this car. My question is why couldn't they get this designed in Michigan?

Volksroddin
Volksroddin HalfDork
3/6/09 8:21 a.m.

The grill and tail lights say Lincoln to me.

John Brown
John Brown SuperDork
3/6/09 8:23 a.m.

If you look at the link Vetters posted you will see a big badge in the middle de-Lincoling the grille.

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
3/6/09 8:26 a.m.

buck teeth mcgurk?

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH SuperDork
3/6/09 8:33 a.m.
93celicaGT2 wrote: Bob the incredibly ugly-proportioned whale?

Beluga!

Angry Yak also fits.

Seriously this is the wrong crowd for this thread...

Winston
Winston New Reader
3/6/09 8:38 a.m.
John Brown wrote:
Tim Baxter wrote: I think it's a new Monte Carlo based on the G8 platform.
Nope, I am surprised you are going American.

Nice try at throwing us off the trail, JB.

John Brown
John Brown SuperDork
3/6/09 8:39 a.m.

Really?

I understand that it does not handle like a Miata or an E30 but that it outruns an Astro Van and a P71 I say that it fits right in the berkeleying middle of this crowd.

TJ
TJ Reader
3/6/09 8:47 a.m.

I guess it is a lot easier to be a car design critic than a car designer, but that to me looks like something thrown together trying to incorporate many design elements from all sorts of cars that it looks like something from some JV level design class project not something that any company has spent millions on.

The grill was the Buick tell for me, but I thought is was going to be the all new Buick Blah not the Lacrosse.

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