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Detroit Auto Show: EyesOn Design Winners Announced

Slash3 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:03:55 EST

The X6 is a truck in the same way that the new ZR1 is a zeppelin.

Which is to say, it is not. At all.

Slash3

Detroit Auto Show: EyesOn Design Winners Announced

smokyburnout — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:27:38 EST

@CARBONFIBER: only a few announcements have been made about that show so far (new Mercedes C-class Sport Coupe will be there, as will the Audi Q5, and models from Infiniti and BYD). i can't find any announcement from GM, but i would think they would bring both of those models.

and you would get the same answer by not yelling the question...

smokyburnout

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CARBONFIBER — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:43:23 EST

***

** ?? CAN ANYONE PLEASE FIND OUT IF THE ZR1 + CTS-V WILL BE AT GENEVA???

THANK YOU!!!

CARBONFIBER

Detroit Auto Show: EyesOn Design Winners Announced

wheels OF satan! — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:50:15 EST

X6 is a TRUCK??
WTF?
ithought trucks hauled stuff ( inanimate stuff, not Soccer moms)

wheels OF satan!

Detroit Auto Show: EyesOn Design Winners Announced

rondeimer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:59:03 EST

You guys are terrible! You can't award the Chrysler 'truck' thing a design award if it stole the front clip off a Cadillac. If you cheat on an exam you fail. Same goes here... you steal a design so you should loose.
Secondly, don't call these (Chrysler + BMW) trucks when they're not. It doesn't matter what the marketing PR stuff says... if they can't haul manure, they're not trucks.

rondeimer

Detroit Auto Show: EyesOn Design Winners Announced

TampaRon — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:34:00 EST

The X6...REALLY?

TampaRon

Detroit Auto Show: EyesOn Design Winners Announced

Mad_Science — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:23:43 EST

Of all the people on earth, you'd think those in the auto industry would know the definition of truck.

Mad_Science

Detroit Auto Show: EyesOn Design Winners Announced

Culleys-CTS — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:19:22 EST

Well, two of the four winners are Cadillac's...seems the front end of the ecoVoyager wants to be a Cadillac...but it looks like a Caddy candle that has burned too long

Culleys-CTS

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crespo — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:18:09 EST

While the CTS Coupe was a pleasant surprise, how in *&%^#@ hell did Best Concept not go to the R8 TDi? Maybe since the R8 is already in production it wasn't considered a concept? *sigh*

crespo

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Mark Miller — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:58:54 EST

I kinda like the ecoVoyager, [jalopnik.com] and by auto-industry logic these days I think a Mazda Miata could probably somehow be classified as a truck. It's just that I was thinking the award should have gone to something more like the 2008 International ProStar. [www.internationaltrucks.com] ("most aerodynamic class-8 TRUCK")

Mark Miller

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POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:54:36 EST

.
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And all I can do is tell you
I want you (CTS-V)
I'll tolerate you (X6)
I need you (CTS Coupe)
But -- there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you (ecoVoyager)
Now don't be sad
'cause three out of four ain't bad

POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY

Detroit Auto Show: EyesOn Design Winners Announced

htrodblder — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:27:58 EST

Well Im sure the awards will make lovely bookend on Bob Lutz's desk. or maybe wheel chocks for his jet.

htrodblder

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Euromobile — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:06:15 EST

@Rust-MyEnemy: Good call...

Euromobile

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rlj676-new job, same problems — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:02:29 EST

@skaz:

Well, I've seen some things on the internet that would have me think NO HUMAN is a virgin by any stretch, but I'm pretty sure there are a few. So, just because we've seen the internet pornstars of dragons I wouldn't think them all grossly over-randy.

Also, the X6 over the F150 or Ram is aggregious.

rlj676-new job, same problems

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Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there! — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:00:13 EST

@Euromobile: I think the RR Phantom should win the best production truck award...

Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there!

Detroit Auto Show: EyesOn Design Winners Announced

saabophile2 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:56:56 EST

If I had to choose the Ecovoyager or the A-BAT for a truck award I'd eat my own eyeballs instead. They're like the Platonic form of hideousness made flesh, er, aluminum und shteel.

saabophile2

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Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:54:53 EST

@jnostalgics: As I recall, Mr. Wong had a thing for Buick Centuries - that may just be a tough call. But the Furai has to be dragon-approved, it looks like one of their own.

And I honestly thought the CTS coupe was a production model. GM hinted at it a couple times in the past few months, I kind of assumed it was a bigger deal because that was what they wre going to be building (instead of 95% of what they were building).

Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car

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Euromobile — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:49:06 EST

I'm assuming these awards only apply to the new reveals?

On that basis, the Cadillac CTS-V is deserving of best production car. The Fisker is still technically a concept so it doesn't qualify.

BMW X6 is an excellent choice for best truck. The pickups are dishwater-dull by comparison.

Best concept should have gone to the Fisker or the dragon's favourite; the Mazda Furai. It's a no-brainer.

The Land Rover LRX or the Hummer HX should've been best concept truck.

Euromobile

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skaz — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:47:50 EST

@rlj676: Few animals are monogamous. Dragons are far too randy to settle down with one muscle car.

Imagine, if you would, that a dragon decided to settle down with say.. a 1983 Camaro. Then say a Z06 strolls by and raises its leaf springs. Do you think a dragon could resist? The Camaro is already mostly rust.

skaz

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Comrade Teargaskov — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:46:22 EST

I would say that the Eco Voyager is as much a truck as the X6, unless the X6 is body-on-frame...

Comrade Teargaskov

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Chicago_fog — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:43:17 EST

*known

Chicago_fog

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Chicago_fog — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:42:09 EST

The Komodo Dragon is know for 'virgin births'
-Just sayin'
"Virgin dragon to give birth"

[www.google.com]

Chicago_fog

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rockogre — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:40:29 EST

@FLB: Possibly it is the unrestraindness of the design, what with the eyes of leopard and all.

rockogre

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rlj676-new job, same problems — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:40:22 EST

I'm offended that you would generalize all dragons as hedonistic savages making auto-sex to any muscle car that strolls by.

I like to believe there are plenty of respectable dragons waiting for a long term committed relationship to the right car before they make sweet love. So I guess I find the eco-thingy trucklike, as I assume there are some pure dragons out there.

Now Sandy Wong's on the other hand are a bunch of sluts.

rlj676-new job, same problems

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jnostalgics — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:40:04 EST

Put a CTS Coupe and a Furai in front of Mr. Sandy Wong and see which one HE goes after.

jnostalgics

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FLB — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:34:37 EST

I'm obviously missing something, but the X6???

FLB

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lascauxcaveman — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:34:29 EST

Well, I got a sawzall for Christmas, so we could whip out a quick 'amino job on that cute li'l thing...

lascauxcaveman

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Garebear — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:32:23 EST

All dragons would be virgins if those were their only four choices. No self-respecting dragon would touch the ecoVoyager, the X6 may very well be a lesbian, and do you honestly think the CTS coupe or CTS-V is letting anyone near their tailpipes?? Fuhgeddaboudit.

Garebear

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MrSpyder — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:29:44 EST

WHAT? No Mazda Furai? This is obviously a travesty of justice.

MrSpyder

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Ω ß®ªғғ — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:27:00 EST

Am I the only one who thinks the rear of the CTS-Coupe looks like Gungadeere?

Ω ß®ªғғ

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combat chuck — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:26:20 EST

The ecoVoyager is a truck?! Did they win because all the other concept trucks are shockingly hideous?

combat chuck