NAIAS 08: Toyota A-Bat

[marinerbc]

Originally Posted by HoosierRon

Once again, Toyota demonstrates that it does not get trucks.

Originally Posted by CamaroCrazy

Oh God. My eyes......

Originally Posted by Kev85

Yuck.

Originally Posted by ByTheLake

Looks like an angry hedgehog.

Regardless of how Toyota got so successful, its designers had little to do with that.

Doesn't leave much for me to say.

Gee, thanks guys.

[Mr. Burns]

I can imagine how something like this started out. Perhaps kinda like this:

Herb Powell: I want you to help me design a car. A car for all the Homer Simpsons out there, and I want to pay you $200,000 a year!

Homer: And I want to let you!

[gardnet1]

Is it just me or does the front grill look like a bow tie?

Metro-men rejoice another flower pot hauler is on the scene. Tail gate looks like it belongs on a mitsu. A-BAT??? Is that short for A Batch of Crap?

Interior...Triple Axle Hurl!

[FenwickHockey65]

Holy.............................................. .......................................
I'm speechless. I thought the Ridgeline was bad. I think if I look up the word "horrible" in the dictionary, this thing will come up as a reference.
And I'm sure that we all know by now that the tailgate will crack, the camshaft will fail, and the transmission will fall off this so-called "truck."
AND WHAT ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH IS AN A-BAT?!!

[BlueMontreal]

Subaru Baja with Honda Ridgline.

I'll buy a G8-UTE to carry my bicycles before before thinking touching that... thing ?

[FenwickHockey65]

Wait wait wait...
Did I read that correctly? This thing is smaller than a Tacoma? Is that possible?
It looks fatter than Michael Moore. There's no way in hell it's smaller than a Tacoma!

[HoosierRon]

Originally Posted by gardnet1

Is it just me or does the front grill look like a bow tie?

I don't know. After I saw the profile, I was too afraid to look at the rest of the pictures.

[Uzzy]

Originally Posted by gardnet1

Is it just me or does the front grill look like a bow tie?

OMG, now that you mention it, it does!

[FenwickHockey65]

And is it just me or are the A/C vents covered by that orange thing??

[fp115]

First the Dually now this. I think my eyes want to leave my skull!

[GM-Joe]

That is definately fugly, but they are on the right path. There is no reason a little pickup can't get close 35mpg with a small diesel. I think this has gone overboard, turning a RAV4 into a pickup. As for the Ridgeline, it seems to have less size, power, comparable mpg than the Silverado; so a unibody pickup is not a gas saver. But toyoda is on the right path, we need little pickups for guys and commuters that drive by themselves 99% of the time.

I really would like to see GM consider making the Colorado a little bigger and bringing in the little pickup from Brazil to slot below it.

[FenwickHockey65]

http://blogs.edmunds.com/Straightline/3977

Striking resemblance, eh?

[regfootball]

well, if it shares the bent frames of the FJ, the schrapnel motor, bed bounce, foil tailgates, and destructo trans of the turdra, the fall apart latches for doors off the sienna, the self destructing steering of the avalon, and sludgeomatic mill of well, so many toyotas, then yes, toyota will have another winner on its hands.

[American_Muscle]

Originally Posted by Commodore

Holy ****! The front is one of the ugliest ones I have ever seen

I hope this goes into production

hahah "SO UGLY...wait a minute.. YES o please please please make it!!"

self destruction is fun when toyota's the one doing it

[Uzzy]

Originally Posted by regfootball

well, if it shares the bent frames of the FJ, the schrapnel motor, bed bounce, foil tailgates, and destructo trans of the turdra, the fall apart latches for doors off the sienna, the self destructing steering of the avalon, and sludgeomatic mill of well, so many toyotas, then yes, toyota will have another winner on its hands.

Only if Consumer Reports recommends it, and you know they will.