Have to say it is a nice CUV. I actually like the simplistic design of the dash. Clean and functional compared to some that tried to do this. I wonder about the R design label I see and there are other things I wonder about. Be interesting to read about the details come Sept 21st.

I see NO VALUE in a Turbo 3 cylinder Engine.

I like it! It's going to be too small for us, but I like it.

Not too bad.

Floating roof strikes again!

Why does no one make a floating roof 4-door coupe?  Beat those dead horses some more.

58 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

Why does no one make a floating roof 4-door coupe?

Nissan does.

Beat those dead horses some more.

Modern design is like the closing scene to Animal House- the band is making noise but it's jammed up in the dead end alley- going nowhere. There are more players than ever, and they're all doing the same stylistic cues.

10 hours ago, balthazar said:

Nissan does.

 

 

Modern design is like the closing scene to Animal House- the band is making noise but it's jammed up in the dead end alley- going nowhere. There are more players than ever, and they're all doing the same stylistic cues.

Remember when we had a similar discussion here about 10 years ago with regards to fender vents?

Trends come, trends go...floating roof seems so 2015...boring, boring, boring.  What's next? 

2 hours ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

Trends come, trends go...floating roof seems so 2015...boring, boring, boring.

Or so 1959.

>"What's next?"<
Some other recycled cue from the past, if you're lucky. There's not much at all left in the hopper.

Is this really a floating roof though? It looks like the whole roof is black

Looks like all-black to me also. The beltline kick-up calls attention to the C-Pillar and invokes some of the 'floating' treatments. Nothing new here, either :

Not sure I like that kick-up being part of the back doors or the Camry XSE style black roof .  I would have been happier without them, just a mini-XC90 which it otherwise appears to be would have been fantastic.

I wonder if it will get engines that are both supercharged and turbocharged like the XC90.  I would settle for an XC60 Turbocharged/Supercharged/Plug In Hybrid though.

Odd they went with a different greenhouse styling theme for this rather than go for a consistent approach that matches the XC60 and XC90...