Ugliest 4X4

[tbigity]

Sorry, I still must disagree. While it took a while for our market to get saturated here in Tulsa as it did early on in bigger cities (as most of you predicted it would)...I still cannot pass one (has to be yellow) without saying "Man that is godo looking". They are proven to be decent off-pavement and have a uniqueness (design only) that si comparable to teh VX. I would hate to think that simply because something has become mainstream it would turn people off of it. If you like it, you like it. Who cares if you see them around town, or if you see a "soccer mom" driving one...don't let that influence your preferences. They are beefy, just teh right size, plenty powerful, and a nice mix of retro/modern which seems to be the new kid on the vehicle design block.

[CoastieCosta567]

i just remembered that when the VX first came out, alot of poeple said they hated it, and thought it was ugly, in fact it was put as 1 of the uglyest vehicals ever made, but that was cuz it was diffrent and u all know this that most people or the majority will think the same as everybody else and not really show there true openion. but after the VX satrted sharing its Future look to the rest of the world and the world has cought up to it's looks or have gotten really close, people have gone to accept it and fall in love with it. All i'm saying is that art is in the mind of those who see the world past of it's time, and same goes for vehicals, they are art. if u compare to now adays, then yeah it will be ugly, but if u see it past that, how beautiful or cool something is with out having to worry what others have to say ur opeion will change , same goes with women, if u see how a beautiful babe will dress or look 10 years from now we will be like what the Heck, just like how people always talk about the past of people looks. anyways, i guess u guys get my point of view. The Fj is just a vehical going to its own path, with no1 to fallow it yet, wait a few more years and many others will take that same rout> the VX is a perfect example of what many vehicals in the future or now will take.

[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