Yeah, what he said. Except that they followed up by giving the Pacifica and Sebring very similar front ends and the Sebring similar lines and of course all the Chryslers have the mini-van grill on them. It pisses me off that my fun, two seat car, shares any styling cues with a mini-van. It's just stupid. No one buys a mini van because it has the same grill as a Crossfire (or anything else) and CERTAINLY no one bought the Crossfire because it had that awesome Chrysler mini-van grill on it.

You want to know why creativity is dying in American cars? Because people like Tom Peters are running the programs. Tom Peters is the Design Director of rear wheel drive performance cars at GM. You know what he said about the new Camaro? "The overall proportions, long hood, and powerful fender forms say, 'this is a front engine, rear wheel drive performance vehicle'" Is that what they say to you? I think whether you like the Camaro concept or not, it doesn't say THAT to you. Corporate speak is why creativity and innovation are dying all over the place. Too many people looking for WHY something makes you like things and then trying to design something with some of those features, instead of just letting passion and imagination rule. No one would ever have built the '57 Chevy Bel Air today. No one would ever have built the Stingray Corvette today. Everyone's too busy looking backward to try to pull stuff that we used to like instead of working to built the next NEW thing.

At least our car started out unique (more or less). Too bad the lesson learned from it in corporate world is that unique doesn't sell cars instead of 'man, we sure screwed that marketing thing up'.