If you go over to the Brilliance BS4 stage, you will see that its builders also write personal messages to the buyers on each vehicle. Although their practice is rooted less in pride and more in the history of writing messages on bombs during WWII. My favorite message is on the back of the engine block: "If you can read this, you have just gotten into a 25mph head-on collision."
I would never buy it (because if I think I need a wagon, I'll actually just buy a wagon), but it's handsome save for one detail: the enormous D pillar. You could put a billboard on there.
We need close ups of the signatures. With that many surely there is at least one of the following:
I.P Freely
Dick Hertz
Amanda Huginkiss
Al Koholic
Anita Dick
Harry Balls
and so and and so forth.
Maybe at least a George P. Burdell, surely there was at least one Georgia Tech engineer involved, since it was built in Georgia.
It's a decent looking car - at its best it has elements of RDX and Edge, at its worst a little Grand Cherokee and Venza. But it's a good middle-of-the-road design that should appeal to a lot of people. I'm not so impressed with the base engine specs and it remains to be seen what the usable cargo capacity is, but if they can keep the price low but improve on the quality, it should sell decently.
@LoganSix: Yes, like that. Although now there's nothing to draw my eyes away from the big bootie. And the retro wheels are gone. I think this would have sold better than the Commander.
Here's another vehicle where the front license plate location makes the front end of the car look all buck-teethy. Move the bracket up a couple of inches and it'd look so much better.
Or just don't run a front plate like I do, and hope you don't get pulled over *knock on wood*.
I think car companies could augment their income by selling just the engines. I know Ford does this through FRPP and GM does it through GM Performance. But there are some nice diesels coming out now that I would love to buy from a dealership with a warranty and drop into a project car.
I guess I'll just have to wait a year for these cars to wind up in the junkyard.
It's either the time change, or the lack of Breakfast Scotch in my system, but I read that headline as "2010 Kia Sorento's Leaking Head has Soul Unpeeling".
Appears to be the unholy offspring of Lexus RX and Subie Forrester. Are Kia targeting the upscale lesbian market with this? Has somebody informed Ellen?
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Less space-efficient station wagon.
Fail.
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I.P Freely
Dick Hertz
Amanda Huginkiss
Al Koholic
Anita Dick
Harry Balls
and so and and so forth.
Maybe at least a George P. Burdell, surely there was at least one Georgia Tech engineer involved, since it was built in Georgia.
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Why not "Santa Feh" or "Tooscon" or "Cedona"?
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I actually suggested the "Woody" version to the chopartist (SuzQ).
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Or just don't run a front plate like I do, and hope you don't get pulled over *knock on wood*.
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I guess I'll just have to wait a year for these cars to wind up in the junkyard.
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"Hey man, you got a bottle opener?"
"No man, forgot one."
"No big deal, I'll just use the grill on this Sorento over here."
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