2015 Toyota Yaris Front End is UGLY
 

Holy cow.

http://images.thecarconnection.com/l...00482178_l.jpg

What happened?

It looks like they failed at trying to be Audi.

Its built in France, that's what happened.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/soviXKg_nMQ/maxresdefault.jpg

France? I thought that they'd have higher labor costs...

That grille is gonna be horrible for aero, too...

The front end is for pedestrian safety, I think -- provides more room to crush before hitting the motor. I have a soft spot for "ugly" French cars:

http://www.francethisway.com/top10li...E340Tkczy5.jpg

For car manufacturing Germany and France have lower labor costs per hour than the US because healthcare and retirement are handled by the government. The reason you don't see more cheap cars imported from Europe is shipping cost and exchange rate risk. I suspect you'll see that change now that they are devalueing the Euro and aligning car regulations between the EU and US in a couple of years.

Oh, that's interesting.

On the regs, what are they aligning? Emissions? Safety? Both? Will we finally be able to import diesels over here?

"Luke, I am your father."

"Disowned by my father for being ugly."

I think it looks like a mustachioed man yelling honestly

might be a reason to buy

I hate to break it to you j-man, the '14 was ugly too. So was the 13', and the '12, and Echo.

I don't get the fascination with the styling "beak" led by the brand logo. Acura did it as well (to quite a lot of criticism, and they've since dropped it). I think the part I don't like about it is the black plastic bumper that is integrated into the "grille". I am rather disappointed to see the Lexus predator grille reach its way to Toyota models.

Better the mustachioed man be yelling honestly than shouting lies!

A lot of new cars are ugly.

The gaping, wide open mouth look seems to have been popular for the last few years across quite a few brands.

It looks like a French Bulldog after sucking on a lemon...