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This is the 2006 Acura Advance Sedan concept car.

The first Keen Edge Dynamic.

Below it is the car as it was finally released. It's interesting how some of the design elements remained and can be seen in the final product.

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Thanks, GK, I just thew up.

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I thought you'd have a suppressed gag reflex by now.

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I still get the reaction from seeing gruesome and grizzly scenes of horror and disgust.

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Once an ugly duck, always an ugly duck.

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Look how the eyebrows on the front of the 2006 fenders eventually morphed into the 09-10 design with the brake ducts.

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Look how the thin some what angular grill piece eventually morphed into buck teeth.

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so what is the point of this grill?

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:thud:

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Many of the concept car's rear design elements also remained in the final design, although at first glance they seem radically different.

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The crease in the rear deck and the angle of the trunk lid opening were reversed for the final design.

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alright first Jackrabbit i see with this car im going to wait for him in the parking lot and shake his hand and tell him he has guts and good luck:thumbdown:

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Ugly concept, ugly production car.

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Much like any concept car.

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fixed

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i actually like the style of the new TL, but that concept made me shudder when i saw it

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If Lexus' philosophy is the L-Finesse, what's Acura's?

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what in the world is l-finesse?
you buy into marketing rubbish too much

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I would love the car if it wasn't for that gaudy factory grill.

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I'm with this guy.

Although, I do like the car alot with a paint matched grill.

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Snapped this on Thursday...

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3948853_n.jpg

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the concept looked like a plain block of wood that still needed to be sculpted.

I'd take a TL with the ron jon grill any day!

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You're just trying to show a more outrageous version of the production model so we can accept and cope with the ugliness it currently is!

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meh, i know it takes a lot to design new cars BUT COME ONE!

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i watched a video, seemed like it was designed in the US.

never let us design anything again please...

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Yeah, this was done at the CA studio.

My best friend is a designer at their Tokyo studio (which is why I was there last week) and things can certainly get frustrating for him.

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The 3G and 4G TL were both designed by Americans for Americans.

There is a fairly hot JDM market of people who are trying to import the 4G SH-AWD TL.

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I can fully understand that... it's a beautiful car:drink:

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Because Americans are good at marketing to themselves. That's why the Big 3 are beating out the Asian manufacturers.

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:thud:

A+

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DO NOT WANT

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they both suck.

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Hey G... Have you considered options for new pogo sticks for your new ride?

Or you going to keep it OEM?

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Why so much emphasis on this Back to the future reject of a car?

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I think it does just fine the way that it is. It's not beyond all conjecture...but I'm not at the stage I'd even consider something like that.

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I can live with the front-end but the back-end is hideous. Getting beat with an ugly stick would be an understatement.

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It is supposed to be the Way Ahead, and they're frankly surprised at what some of you are typing.

They wonder if the naysayers are even in the target audience, but they worry enough that they've commissioned surveys to ascertain the impact of the design.

The issue's further complicated because this all happened at the same time that the USA and Canada experienced a very serious economic downturn, so it's hard to tell if the economy is more of a problem than the cutting edge design.

It's important to Honda and that is, after all, why we are here.

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I'm hoping the aftermarket will make some grills that don't make the cars look like they should be biting through chains or chasing James Bond...

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I haven't seen anything yet that looks better than what the comes with.

But there are a couple of replacement grills out there if you really want.