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Originally Posted by DAEMANO
Short Rant...
The CB was a failure to people in this market because Art-Deco styling does not belong on this car, no matter what demographic they were targeting. Shit, Art-Deco is barely surviving even with Chryslers (the new Pacifica is one of their cleanest designs in years and barely A.D.). Where Art-Deco works is on ornamented Grand Touring cars, Service vehicles, Estate Cars, and Luxury SUVs. The 86 is none of these and it's especially NOT A GT (despite the poorly chosen trim level "GT" in much of the world (this was so dumb)).
Clearly the CB's designers are skilled at what they do. What they chose for the 86 simply made no sense. Don't do it again.
/rant
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I think if they had tried this with the last generation MR2 (the Spyder), it would've been much more successful. The look would actually work with the character of the car, and the lines of the car.
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Originally Posted by Stephen W.
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I always liked that concept the best.
When the production version came out, I was a bit disappointed - but looking again, I'm now quite surprised with how faithful the FRS/GT86 was to this Scion concept. If you exclude the concept-bits which never would've made it to any production car (i.e. those giant wheels completely filling the wheel wells, the crazy rear diffuser), an amazing amount of those character lines (the shoulder, the tail, etc.) made it to production.
They should've just taken the taillights from this concept and put them on the refresh (I really dislike the new taillights - even worse than the Altezzas for the first gen).