Did the European design studio produce this? Is that why Honda is shutting them down?

So what’s the point of designing something for the express purpose of being able to haul the occasional boxy item when you can’t close the hatch without crushing the box? Or wrecking the hatch?

Something tells me even the good folks in East Liberty are going to look befuddled when they see these coming down the line.

Good God, lets hope that’s the reason. I don’t ever want to see something like this again.

Even the ugly ones need some love sometime… dont they?

Im not gonna be the one doing it though.

Now this is HOT! Put a Bimmer badge on the thing and they will think you are the first in the country macking the 5 series gran turismo.

It looks like a previous model Hyundai Elantra GT that went on the Big Mac and X-Large Gravy diet.

did they workshop this at all? i feel bad for the morons that will buy this because they will think its the next big thing or the youthful thing to do….ie scion buyers

This thing is far too ugly. It hurts my eyes!

oh my lord….. ugly rear design….

another thing– what an ugly, blocky, plasticky looking console and the area below the radio/HVAC….. NASTY SH*T!!!!!!! I’m sick and tired of Honda designing Tonka-like blocky/plasticky looking interiors in all of their vehicles!!

I don’t get it…These things are all ugly (X6 etc) They should have called it the “Crossdresser”. What the hell is it supposed to be?

They were inspired by 90s Korean cars design, pure class.

The mule that was photographed a year ago was more of a true wagon. This thing… a Japanese take on the Pontiac Aztek. YUCK!!!

It’s just does not flow! Speaking of interior, they could get rid of million buttons on the dash and placed one selection wheel. Not the best ergonomics, when I drive mrs’s car I get confused and destructed by all those buttons.

Borat might have the right idea.. this needs a “self-destruct” button in the center of the dash!

From a distance it looks like to Ford emblem should be on the grill….. On a similar yet different note, the auto industries decision to build models like this puzzles me. They all have a certain frumpyness/ ****tyness to them.

CrossTurd.

By the way, what are all those indentations on the rocker panels? Are they to make it look like it has running boards? Good lord.

Horrible.

Double disappointing. Outside not elegant. Interior is a cheap, dumbed-down, plastic looking version of the latest Honda interior in their European counterpart vehicle, the Honda Tourer (Accord wagon). Go to Honda’s Italian site to see. http://www.nuova-accord.com/ Guess they think Americans don’t want or deserve any better. An insult to all.

Honda, on this day, has officially re-written the definition of ugly with this creature monster thing they call a serious contender. They have dropped, kicked and shot the boll with a gun in this one.

I just noticed something…. those tailights look like they came straight of the civic coupe

It doesn’t look to interesting…and those computer edited images don’t help!

*VOMITING* looking at the picture and *VOMITING* again (puke).

Melrose

That accord they have there is the tsx here.

This will be the most FUGLY Honda in the history of Honda!

double you tee eff

Ugliest. Honda. Ever.

Interior is alright, but I see too much 5-Series(E60) in there.

I am affraid that there actually are people dumb enough to buy it:/

It looks like a giant Insight to me.

Ever look at a car and realize that it’s DOA?

I will be shocked if this car makes it past the first year – no, scratch that, make it six months – of production.

Rename it to the Honda CrossPuke

two comments:
-all station wagons, crosstours crossovers… whatever, to be useful, should have a 3rd row
-the sad thing is people will still buy this hideous thing (look at the CR-V)

More Honda junk. Nobody will buy this POS. It’ll be lot rot until it gets retired to the scrapyard where Honda does their most business, recycling for beercans.

General Motors would never design a, ugly, cheap, low quality POS like this.

GM. An American Revolution

I guess a few Acura designers got demoted to Honda and came up with this… really ugly.

The front end with that oversized grille always reminds me of a kid’s plastic dinosaur toy grinning back at me. I thought Dodge was the only company to put truck grilles on cars?

This must have been designed by the idiots who ruined the Acura line.

This thing is an answer to a question no one asked!! It is ugly as sin!! And they copied Ford with the Fusion front end, but enlarged the grille. Sadly, it will sell ONLY because its a Honda. Take for example, the new Honda Pilot. Also ugly as sin, and I see many on the road. Maybe this is what its gonna take for people to realize that the Japanese aren’t perfect when it comes to building cars! With that said, I am glad their going to build this sad excuse of a vehicle.

Good gosh people. Is no one here smart enough to see what this is about???
The Giant SUV phase is ending. Americans are going back to station wagons. This is the modern interpreatation of a station wagon. For that, it actaully looks pretty decent. remember the old wagons… ugly as butt. I know we’re all enthusiats here, but companies make money off the masses not us. Otherwise, only porshe, bmw, and teh exotic automakers would be in business.
And vw would only produce gti’s

Nightblack_97 I Completely understand where you are coming from. The idea of a Crossover is great. BUT, what I fail to understand is how someone could or even would buy this over a Ford Edge, Dodge Journey, etc. (Both of which look better in my opinion). I guarantee you that this “Crosstour” will cost more then the two examples that I just mentioned, and both will hold up just as long as this Honda. But people are SO brain washed into thinking that its only Japanese vehicles that will hold up, no matter what the thing looks like.

at lweast it’s not dat stopud Vensa

Put a Bimmer badge on the thing & it would drag doewn BMW’s rep
yeas, this needs a “self-destruct” button

I wood rather dreink DDt than drive dis car

Hopefully this will sell well, so Mazda will bring the 6 5 door back to the states.

Maraih— Ya I’m with you on the japanese quality thing. First Toyota slipped and now Honda is showing signs too. But I doubt the crosstour will seel for much more than the Sedan. Now I do see it overlapping with CRV sales though. I would think wagons and cuvs were pretty much in the same demographic, unless companies start making cuv’s more manly and giving them off road capabilities and such.

I don’t know why i can’t spell today

Nightblack_97 – You don’t really have to be an enthusiast to see that it’s ugly. It always amazes me why people buy some cars when they can have something much better looking in the same segment, for the same money, but they do. Somehow advertisement convinced people that number of cupholders or 0,1 liter per 100km difference in fuel consumption matters more then aesthetics.

It wasn’t right when Pontiac created Aztec, or when BMW did it. And it sure ain’t right when Honda does it. Finally a miss-step by Honda. What were the creators of this ugly-ass thing thinking.

A well designed wagon with 4WD option would have have been a better if more conservative bet. They already have one in their stable – the European Honda Tourer.