Originally Posted by blackcrossfire07
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. The grill shape is the same as every vehicle on the road. Nearly every pontiac has the same shape grill. There is still no real key element the crossfire and Aztec share...
If we went with your theory.... our crossfires share similar features with aston martins, bentleys and even the 350Z.... so I could say my car looks like a bentley for one tenth the price.
If it wasn't clear, I never said the Crossfire only looks like an Aztek or vise versa. But in your response that seems to be what your getting out of this observation. And if so, I am sorry. I figured someone here could see the forest through the trees and step up the though process. Please take no offense, I run into a lot of poeple who take things for face value and move on.
But on the topic of Bentleys there is a car that could be had for a minuscule fraction of the price of the real thing. Hold onto your butts...
the 2001-2005 Hyundai XG300/350 a.k.a. Grandeur. And that's not my observation but that of many car auto columnists.
But I just can't shake the feeling that the comparison to the Aztek is just hurting the pride of the herd here.
I mean the fascia of the aztek is a perfect on the Crossfire and if shown only the portion of the car up to the windshield with the Pontiac face, people would still have no problem recognising the car as a Crossfire. And with good Photoshop blending skills, I feel even most Chrysler car salesmen would not notice anything out of the ordinary.
And what you've mentioned about the comparison being made on most any vehicle on the road today, I challenge you to find a vehicle outside of Chrysler that could go through the 'face' transplant exercise I performed above(without chopping the original bits to pieces) and look just as fitting. The redline exercise was just to point out if the car had additional subtle similarities beyond the glaring obvious characteristic, the fascia.
If that can be done, I might just be eating crow tonight.
