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!