Is Scion's send off bad for FRS drivers?

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Correct, the "fancy" term for it is Pareidolia. It is the human brain associating faces to anything closely resembling a face as part of a survival technique from when we were all naked and afraid....like after the last FT86Club drinking binge.

I don't drink. I wish I did. Cannot unsee...

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

from when we were all naked and afraid....like after the last FT86Club drinking binge.

SHHHHHHHHH we promised to never speak of that.
And who the hell was "afraid"?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

And yet the line of the mouth still goes around the bumper, which means that your exact-width mustache is still inside the mouth where the teeth would be.



I agree. It is incredibly stupid to call it a mustache. That's the whole point. If the hairy teeth people insist on calling it a mustache, they must also think the opening is a mouth. And since they think it's a mouth, and since that "mouth" goes around the mustache, they must believe that mustaches grow from teeth.

I can only attribute that to their own direct experience of poor dental hygiene.

Meh. Calling it a mustache is just as accurate as anything else. So the line of the "mouth" goes around it, maybe it uses eyeliner to accent it's regal 'stache. Pretty damned strange shaped "mouth" anyway. Trying to be anatomically correct is a bit extreme.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

SHHHHHHHHH we promised to never speak of that.
And who the hell was "afraid"?

The barmaid that looked like @Ashikabi's avatar, or maybe that was just in my head...

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

SHHHHHHHHH we promised to never speak of that.
And who the hell was "afraid"?

Me :eek:

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

The barmaid that looked like @Ashikabi's avatar, or maybe that was just in my head...

That was one of Steves sex dolls

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

It's so cute when people feel they have to slip an insult into every one if their replies. Shows how childish they are

Not as childish as continuing to pretend there's a mustache on a car when there clearly isn't.

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Correct, the "fancy" term for it is Pareidolia. It is the human brain associating faces to anything closely resembling a face as part of a survival technique from when we were all naked and afraid....like after the last FT86Club drinking binge.

I remember reading an article a while back about the Pontiac Aztec that said that in fact cars ARE designed to resemble faces in order to appeal to our affinity to animals used in former times as beasts of burden, so that we would become emotionally attached to our vehicles. That's the reason early steam vehicles gave way to a design that more closely follows a natural, four-legged animal design and why people were creeped out by design experiments like the "three-eyed" Tucker. The Aztec was a failure in large part because it didn't conform to that aesthetic, and as a result it looked "alien" or "mechanical." People looked at it and didn't recognize it. So they didn't buy it.

Furthermore, you can't tell me that those ridiculous Mazda front ends are not made to resemble a smiling face. That kind of foolishness doesn't happen by accident.

[Norville Rogers]

Originally Posted by acetothermus

Putting aside the love hate of the mustache...

Does the BRZ having the mustache give it an air of sophistication?

Moustache ffs.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Furthermore, you can't tell me that those ridiculous Mazda front ends are not made to resemble a smiling face. That kind of foolishness doesn't happen by accident.

Not saying the design doesn't purposely take advantage of pareidolia, that is just why it works.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Not as childish as continuing to pretend there's a mustache on a car when there clearly isn't.



I remember reading an article a while back about the Pontiac Aztec that said that in fact cars ARE designed to resemble faces in order to appeal to our affinity to animals used in former times as beasts of burden, so that we would become emotionally attached to our vehicles. That's the reason early steam vehicles gave way to a design that more closely follows a natural, four-legged animal design and why people were creeped out by design experiments like the "three-eyed" Tucker. The Aztec was a failure in large part because it didn't conform to that aesthetic, and as a result it looked "alien" or "mechanical." People looked at it and didn't recognize it. So they didn't buy it.

Furthermore, you can't tell me that those ridiculous Mazda front ends are not made to resemble a smiling face. That kind of foolishness doesn't happen by accident.

Bull. One of the best selling vehicles in history and no cute animal face there:



Not a huge difference really

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Bull. One of the best selling vehicles in history and no cute animal face there:



Not a huge difference really

Aztec is just plain ugly and no one wants a Pontiac anyways. And it came out when GM was really hurting for customers

[raven1231]

"mustache", "Buck tooth", "protruding grill piece"-who cares?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by raven1231

"mustache", "Buck tooth", "protruding grill piece"-who cares?

This^^^^^

[johan]

holy thread derailment batman.