Car WTFs
Tiffany Labedz Should Be Disappointed With Honda
Image that you beat out 170 entries in a design contest from Honda. And winning meant that your vehicle design became a reality. Seems like it would be a pretty big moment. But you would hope that Honda would match your winning effort by making the car perfect. For winner Tiffany Labedz, that wasn’t the case.
The contest was seeking out the best design for the 2014 Civic Si Coupe featured in the Forza gaming series. The winning design was then put on a new Civic to be unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show Friday. There was even a press conference with Tiffany front and center to help reveal the new Forza edition Civic from underneath a sheet.
But when the car came to light today, it was pretty clear that Honda didn’t put much time into it. The Civic was wrapped in vinyl, which is fine – it’s a common practice these days. But it looks like someone that was amateur at best actually did the job. There were ripples everywhere, the corners were hastily cut out and there was obvious overlap. The local vinyl wrap business in your hometown could have done a better job. It’s what you would call a 20-foot car, because it looks great from 20 feet away.
Apparently Honda, a multi-national corporation, couldn’t seek out someone that could do an adequate wrap job. And they even went so far as to have a press conference unveiling at the show.
It’s pretty obvious to me that Honda is just going to rip off the vinyl and resell this car. Hell, they might as well just give it to Tiffany (because that is not actually happening). Even though they tweeted this:
They obviously meant, enjoy looking at it. Because you can’t have it. But, you also won’t enjoy looking at it.
Not your best moment, Honda.
Many of us thought that the Dodge Challenger Hellcat was about as intimidating as a car could get. After all, people couldn’t hardly get them off the lot without crashing them when they first came out. Then Dodge upped the ante with the new Demon. But aside from the raw power, there are some other interesting aspects of the new Demon.
Check out the video below for a full rundown of just how unique this car is.
Think you finally have your Mercedes names mastered? Well, a new challenge appears to be coming, friend.
How to now identify Mercedes models by name
Some moves in the northwoods of Canada by the brand appear to signal a change in the naming conventions that will be used for Mercedes and AMG models. Candian trademarks have been filed for A 40, CLA 40, SLC 40, SLC 50 and GLE 50 in addition to CLA 53, G73 and S73.
If this proves true in the states, it would signal an end to the rule of two digits for Mercedes, three-digits for AMG counterparts. The new world would be two digits, ending in a “0” for Mercedes, and two digits ending in a “3” for AMG. This supports rumors of an AMG ‘73’ model with a hybrid powertrain.
While this change isn’t terribly difficult to comprehend, it certainly makes things interesting when comparing legacy and upcoming Mercedes models. There are a lot of numbers to keep straight, and a lot of explaining to do. And the letter and number combos leave something to be desired in terms of cachet.
It makes one appreciate the simplicity of giving each vehicle an actual name, like the domestic manufacturers do. Sure, that’s how we ended up with the Chevy Nova, but what are you going to do? There are only so many names, surely one for an automobile would end up meaning “no go” in some language, right?…
I like my car. It’s a 2011 Toyota toaster, I mean Camry. If you made a list of everything a car has to do, the Camry would check all the boxes. It gets me from point A to point B with the consistency a learning golfer would envy. It’s a toaster. You put in the bread, choose your level of toastiness, push down the thingy and then wait for it to pop up. But there is one interesting thing about my car. The shifter. That’s it up there. That is definitely not conventional at all. So, what’s with Toyota’s weird shifter pattern? (more…)
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