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    Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    02/24/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    Between the harelipped front and the Camry everything else, this monster is dangerously close to bland.


    If Toyota wants to render anything cool, they're going to have to start from something less lukewarm than the Camry.

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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    02/24/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    How about just dangerously close to Mazda's Nagare styling language?


    Because no way does this come from the same design philosophy that birthed the intrepidly ugly RX350.

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    Image of Lost in the age of Aerostar Lost in the age of Aerostar
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    Is that leopard print on the lower front air intake?
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02/23/09

    @Lost in the age of Aerostar: The Hyundai oral sex car does it better.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    Hideous =/= cool, Ben. Unless it's an AMC product.


    Seriously? Cheese-grater wheels? With blue-stripe tires? And silver taillights? And why are there glowing holes in the bumper?


    Besides, it's still got that wart.

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    Image of Nightwing Nightwing
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    "Dangerously Close to Cool"......I don't think so.


    This think looks plastic and sterile. Almost looks like what a Star Wars stormtrooper would drive on vacation.

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02/23/09

    @Nightwing: We've already done this. A Stormtrooper drives an Exige and a poor one drives the Avenger.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    Sure, I'll give you almost cool. But you know the thing that would really put this "hybrid" over the top. A jet engine. It's still a hybrid, just a jet-fuel/'lectric hybrid.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    "Relative" is such a wonderful word.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    "interesting' is in the eye of the beholder. You should wash it out.
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    Given that the average Australian car is a snarling 400 HP turbocharged beast that runs on rage-ahol, I assumed that an "Australian hybrid" would be half-NASCAR half-Baja racer that is capable of occasionally transforming into a robot for the sole purpose of kicking hippies in the balls.


    This...this does not live up to that expectation. Somewhere a solitary tear runs down Paul Hogan's leathery face.

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    Image of LuciferV8 LuciferV8
    02/24/09

    @Cognitive Friction: "...Baja racer that is capable of occasionally transforming into a robot for the sole purpose of kicking hippies in the balls."
    I'll take three of those please, Toyota.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    The final ePRS (patent pending) of the day:


    Toyota Australia, rebelling against their Japanese overlords, have produced a spiffy concept car for the Melbourne Motor Show.


    The HC-CV (Hybrid Camry Won't Ever Be Built Like This) sets the stage for the launch of Australia's decline into battery/gasoline hell.


    The president of Toyota Australia said this will be the most important vehicle on their stand at the motor show as it will keep people from falling asleep when they get within eyesight of the rest of their offerings.


    The rest of the press release describes the car's body in excruciating detail. Toyota's PR people should be hired to describe Megan Fox's body.


    No performance figures were given, proving that Toyota really doesn't care about car people.

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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    02/23/09

    @engineerd: You should start a website. I would read it.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/24/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Aw, shucks. Thanks. I would click your heart, but I apparently already did.


    I do have blog. Its been a bit more serious than I am here and, for some reason, covers mostly politics. Although, I am going to start posting more car stuff. The address is in my profile.

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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    Woah. Thats almost cool. Almost.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    Not too shabbey, wait did you say its a hybrid? What? Its a Camry too!?
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    02/23/09

    In reply to Australian Toyota HC-CV Concept Dangerously Close To Cool
    "Dangerously close to cool?"


    Ben, put the crack pipe down and step away from the keyboard.

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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    02/23/09

    @FromaBuick6: No, I see what he's getting at. I mean, put a Ford logo on there and say it's for the Australian market, and people would be talking about how they'd rather have that than the Taurus SHO.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    02/23/09

    @FromaBuick6: I didn't say it was cool, just that it's close. Almost as if Toyota has a rogue styling department in Australia which has a pulse.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    02/23/09

    @theeastbaykid: Heh.
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    02/23/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: It just looks like a Camry with a bad tuner body kit to me. All it needs, in the words of Clint Eastwood, "a gay spoiler on the rear end."
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    Image of RoninianHoon RoninianHoon
    02/24/09

    @FromaBuick6: camry's now are WAY different than in the 90's
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    Image of LuciferV8 LuciferV8
    02/23/09

    In reply to Ford Performance Vehicles F6 E Concept: Aussie Awesome Goes Stealth
    I need this car.
    This should be the new Taurus.
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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    02/23/09

    In reply to Ford Performance Vehicles F6 E Concept: Aussie Awesome Goes Stealth
    Well, that wonderful Six will have to be federalized for emissions, and not just once. If you want an Automatic, once; Standard, twice; All Wheel Drive? third; Turbo? fourth; And each certification takes a lot of money.


    Let's add the costs of certifying it for California on top of that.


    How about crash standards? They have to be certified as well, Front, Side, rollover, and it would take a lot of money to do this as well, since Ford has to certify it with Left Hand Drive.


    Then it has to be certified for Fuel Economy Standards because it will be lumped into Ford's Import Fleet CAFE numbers.


    Is it any wonder they don't import these, because the average American (not the "expert blog readers") prefer their cars as appliances. So they will sell, what, maybe 15,000 of these cars? Not a dollar will be recovered in the certification of these cars at these numbers.

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