sorry about the quality on some of them, i only had my phone, its 2mp but its still a phone lol

check out the super riced out miata! the mazda guy got pissed at us lol


new malibu


some gm muscle




m35, by far the best car at the show!



g6 gxp, looks pretty cool in person.


in a sky redline



evo x






crazy concept, the paint was probably the best thing on it lol


josh is trading his s in on this bad boy!


normal... and super rice mode!



the new 599


a couple superleggara's and 1 spyder galardo




some austen martin's

 

Looks cool. I think I'll swing by tomorrow. I went last year and wasn't too impressed, but it's cheap enough I suppose.

 

its not like its the best car show in the world or theres any unvailings or anything like that, but its a good way to spend an empty day.

gm has a thing where u can drive their cars on i-drive and i drove a sky redline, i was pretty impressed, it feels very very solid.

 

A yellow Aston Martin....it goes to show that good taste is fleeting, the lack thereof eternal.

 

Nicely put...

 

am i missing something? whats wrong with a yellow aston martin?

i cant belive no one has said anything about the miata we riced out... that was the most satisfying thing the 3 of us did all day! lol

 

I did not see a Saturn in those pics.

 

wholeheartedly.

 

There is a fundamental difference between the riced out MX-5 and a yellow Aston Martin.

Vibrantly and confidently, the ricer MX-5 shouts out its bad taste, bad taste being something intrinsic in a riced-out MX-5. But it is easy to forgive these extravagences because Mazda has no design heritage so it can rarely violate any sense of expectation that a critical observer of the marque has. The cars are individual design efforts with no common DNA, other than a feeble attempt to make the grills somewhat resemble one another. How else can a company produce models as disparate as the MX-5, the RX-8, the 6 and the 9? While individually they may not be bad looking cars, since there is nothing to hold the models together as limbs of a common family tree, there is no design heritage or reputation which can either be upheld or sullied.

By contrast, Aston Martins, like many of the great lengendary marques, are all about heritage. Over the life of the marque, a series of cognitions about the products are developed and inform the way we look at the cars. I recently read an insightful observation: designers always talk about "design cues" and "heritage" because they are trying to remind us of beliefs and expectations that we have built up over time about the brands' cars.

The double kidney grill, the flanking character line and Hoffmeister kink at the C-pillar--these are common design cues in almost any BMW, and by using them on BMWs designers remind us of the heritage of the marque. Similarly, the new Rolls Royce models look the way they do because the designer wants to remind us of our preconceived notions of what a Rolls Royce is. Precisely for this reason, the front axel is so located so that there is a minimal front overhang on the car, not only to creat a sense of proportion and dramatic tension but because this is the way Rolls Royces have traditionally looked early in the marque's life.

The best Ferraris are lean and lithe and light. Their curves recall the female form and are blatantly sexual. Lamborghinis are not. Their shapes are angular and hard and dramatic--not the least bit feminine. The most successful designs of thees marques pay a homage to their common heritage. This is why the Betone designed Dino 308 GT4 and the Mondial are among the least successful of Ferrari designs: they are not true to the marque's design heritage. Angular and abrupt, the cars could almost be made by any other Italian manufacturer. They could even have been Lambos. Nothing about them speaks Ferrari.

For these reasons, a yellow Aston Martin is in bad taste. But I will concede that there is a sense of exhilorating exuberance in painting an Aston yellow. We can all forgive the riced-out MX-5's bad taste as being unintentional. While its idiocy may be terminal, it is not malicious. But clearly someone went out of his or her way to make this Aston ugly: the MX-5 may shout out its ugliness clearly and confidently but conincidentally, but a yellow Aston...well that shouts out gauche louder than the clarion wail of Joshua and his priests blowing their trumpets and bringing down the walls of Jericho.

Aston Martins have always been understated...Saville Row...not Fleet Street. To paint one in this shade of yellow (or maybe any shade of yellow), is like asking your local house painter to touch up the Sistine Chapel. It can be done, but why do it. This so violates our sense of what an Aston should be that I suspect someone really dressed it in this hue as a great big joke on us all.

 

The LAMBORGHINI 400 GT was kinda feminine.

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