Topic: Mid-life 'freshening' faux-pas

[smainville]

 

JD equal to himself, no surprise or disappointment here...

[sirAQUAMAN64]

Saw the new Sienna last night and it doesn't look as long and space-shippy as the photos suggest. Not bad. Even the silver-green colour was a little different.

I like the X-Trail because of the interior. Sure, it's hard... but I like the layout and the compartments and the placement of the cupholders (like Yaris), and best of all I fit comfortably into it and the visability out of it is great with the more slender pillars. Even up with the gaping sunroof.

[JSCC]

LoLz, is Chinese gonna become the 3rd official language in USA after English and Spanish? 

[JSCC]

Maybe because plastic is chepaer than metal.
So more plastic = less metal = lower cost.

[legaljargon]

I must also admit to being a closet dumpy-bum Honda Accord lover (must be from my days driving around a 1993 Buick Century ).  The new back lights are too generic, and it looks as if the trunk squashed out the lights.  Still a great car though.

As for the Sentra, who knew they had refreshed that thing?  Apparently, Nissan wants to keep on refreshing it, without the major model redesign that it sorely needs.

Funniest "refresh"?  That has to be the Cavalier IMO.  Someone should have told GM that slapping uglier headlights and a huge, extended Chevrolet symbol on the back didn't disguise the fact that the car was already 10 years old.  Ugh.

[a4_tom]

The more I looked at Sentra's buck-tooth grille, the more I think it looks more acceptable than Mitsubishi's corporate grille.

[sirAQUAMAN64]

Funniest "refresh"?  That has to be the Cavalier IMO.  Someone should have told GM that slapping uglier headlights and a huge, extended Chevrolet symbol on the back didn't disguise the fact that the car was already 10 years old.  Ugh.

Haha, yeah. I think it was the '03's I liked, before that awfully bland 'freshening' of Sunfire and Cavalier which made them look even more plasticy. I much prefered the 'Pontiac' lit up in the rear than that strip of red plastic business.

[a4_tom]

The cosmetic upgrade of Ion is much easier to the eyes than Sunfire/Cavalier.

[Whisper]

I'm with ya on the Sentra tho - tried to take the big dignified corporate grille and apply it to a small car rather unsuccessfully.

I almost bought a SE-R Vspec the year they did that but it was the toothy grill that stopped me. Yuck.

  It's the '04 model with the bucktooth. I still wonder how it was considered an improvement. The '05 model finally got rid of that mistake.