Friday, April 30, 2010

You Ain't Got No Alibi

Naturally this refers to the hideous looking Honda Crosstour.

In fact, all of the new Honda's are rather unfortunate looking. But earlier this week I looked in my rear-view mirror and was startled by the grotesqueness of what was there. It was something like this:



At that moment I knew I had to find out who Honda's chief designer was so that I could run far away from anything they were involved in. The NYT provided all that I needed to know. Would you rather buy something designed by a guy who looks like this:


(Dave Marek, chief designer and senior manager at Honda's American auto design studio)

or this?:


(Jonathan Ive Senior Vice President, Industrial Design Apple)

Come On!