Originally Posted by andysdorm
I don't want to tarnish the spirit of the topic so I tried to make this succint. The red lines are the similarities. Sorry for the large size of the image, anything smaller may be too difficult to see.
I could totally understand if I came to the table comparing our sports cars to the Buick Rendezvous(the GM clone to the Aztek) but there's obviously no similarities there. I found it interesting that Chrysler could produce such a beautiful car for sale in 2004 that somehow shared "some" resemblance to one of auto histories least beloved vehicles beggining sales in 2001.
I included a few 'mutants' variants where I just swapped fascias. The x-fire nosed Aztek appears like a boxy Pacifica whereas the Aztek-nosed Crossfire looks like either a beyond-base trimmed model or a blacked-out custom of which some of you may have seen before. Please forgive the MS Paint work, Photoshop is not able to be installed on my machine; long story.
So again, and again, and again I don't believe the two vehicles could be mistaken for each other but they share some designed details that appear similar. The last generation Sebring could be mistaken for our cars well before an Aztek; that, I can agree on.
On with the topic of new classics of model years 2000+. I would love to talk about the Aztek issue further but we may need a separate topic posted as to not interferre with the author of this one as I am enjoying talks about modern car collectables.
You have way too much time on your hands to put this together.
The comparisons you show between the Aztec and the Crossfire could be made with any vehicle on the road today. So the headlight shape is similar.... but it is also similar to the pacifica and a hundred other cars on the road today. There is still no real key element the crossfire and Aztec share...