This is a quote about how Mercedes styled the new
A-Class.
“Design Chief Gorden Wegner said if you like it, take a line off. If you still like it, take another line off. That left the simple side profile with a sloping nose, shoulder line, and a character line near the bottom of the doors.”
I bet the Toyota design brief is “Keep piling on the superfluous crap until nobody can stand to look at it anymore. Then pile on some extra, just for good measure.”