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Just in case you are wondering, the title of this post is more than a little tongue in cheek. Sorry, sometimes I am just completely unable to resist being a little snarky.

This thing … it looks like a big brown … well. The word I am thinking of here starts with a T and rhymes with “bird.” Whoever guesses that word first wins a brand new Toyota Venza! (I’m just kidding. It may look a little blah and stinky, but making fun of it does not pay me enough money to actually afford one.)

But anyway! The crossover sedan was revealed last year at the Detroit Auto Show. I thought maybe it would look better to me in a year, but it doesn’t.

I don’t care how refined the reviewers and automakers say it is; you can put a lot of frosting on a piece of poo and it still looks like a piece of poo.

Granted, choosing another color for photo ops would probably make this better, but marketing is everything, and if what you see is what you get here, I don’t want to get it at all.

Oh Toyota, you really are coming out with some of the coolest cars on the market aren’t you?  They have done it again folks; Toyota has impressed me all over the place with the brand new, 2010 Toyota Mark X.  This particular car is actually going to be a rear-wheel drive sedan that I think is going to be one of those cars that makes history.

Not only does the 2010 Toyota Mark X look really, really cool and nothing like a standard Toyota, but I have to say that this car is going to drive awesome too.  There is going to be two engine options: a 2.5-liter V6 producing 203 horsepower and a new, larger 3.5-liter V6 reportedly producing a healthy 315 hp.

Come on – who doesn’t love that?  Really guys, go ahead and take a look at the 2010 Toyota Mark X!

For those of you who are thinking right now that you are looking at a toy car … sorry, no, that is just not the case. I kind of wish it was, it would make more sense.

This is actually the Renault Twizy Z.E. concept. Unveiled recently at the motor show in Frankfurt, it is touted as an innovative answer to the problem of urban mobility.

Manufacturers use words like “nimble” and “compact” — which, okay, they apply. But they also call the vehicle “practical,” and uh. Sorry, no. Maybe the driveability is practical, but the design makes it a bit of a joke, if you ask me.

I can’t even say much more about this vehicle, I simply can’t wrap my head around it.