Strangest New Car of 2011

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Automakers are always looking for "white space" - if you drew an evolutionary map of cars, it would be the gaps between the cars currently on sale today. Chrysler hit it (relatively) big with the first minivan, while recently the big gap between cars/wagons and SUVs (and avoiding the blob from mars styling of minivans) has been filled up with innumerable crossovers, much to the delight of car manufacturers and self-image worrying soccer-moms everywhere.

On a side note - lets be honest here - a AWD minivan is probably a better option than almost any crossover... but lets move one.

One of the first true crossovers, and one of the most popular initially, was the Nissan Murano. For reasons I don't quite understand, but perhaps because the styling has not really kept pace, the Murano is not nearly so popular as it once was. However, Nissan has a plan, a radical plan, which will keep the Murano selling well and chip away at one of the few (4dr coupes? check. Sports SUVs? check. Strange swoopy coupe SUV 4dr things? check.) remaining white spaces. Two birds with one stone! Brilliant!

Errr.. maybe not...


Uhhh... yeah..... its a convertible crossover SUV. Which is... strange. What the hell is the point of this? I really dont get it. I guess it is meant to the be the best of all worlds, as convertibles are fun, SUVs are useful and crossovers can be sportyish to drive.

But really... this just gets one big whatthefuckasaurus. Actually, it gets a whatthefuckasaurus sandwich for being so damn strange.


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