Civic owner goes out on a limb with hickory Honda
They're just coming out of the woodwork now. Just the other day we nailed it with the log-wheeled Skoda, and now comes news of a faux-wood Civic. Don't the owners know that fake anything goes against the grain of what the Civic is all about? Sure it's good to see the import crowd branching out, but really, woodgrain contact paper? They didn't even bother to carve around the car's logos. Maybe some rogue splinter group of import customizers thought this hickory Honda could be spruced up with a few rolls of peel-n-stick, but they could have at least used paper that resembled Japanese maple.
Regardless, we'd love to get this Civic and the Skoda together. They'd make a beautiful pear, wouldn't they?
So, what's next? A Forester with fir seats? A boarded-up Aspen? This trend has just got to stop soon or we'll be totally stumped for puns.
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Jon 11:34AM (6/11/2007)
It's too shiny, and whoever did this should have cut around the logos. Besides that, it's the return of the wood(paneled) car!
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Jon 11:35AM (6/11/2007)
And I wouldn't mind a fir-themed Forester. And I really like aspen trees.
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Blake 11:36AM (6/11/2007)
Wow, I wonder how long it took to do that.
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Cory 11:42AM (6/11/2007)
Someone should put woodgrain contact paper on a Ford Flex, since Ford wanted it to be a "modern woody"
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Mr. Oak 11:51AM (6/11/2007)
Too bad it's not real wood, I'd like to get him a box of termites for Xmas.
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wenge 11:57AM (6/11/2007)
Honda's covered in fake wood, MR2's that look like Ferrari's, cats and dogs living together... what is this world coming to?!?
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Yggdrasilly 1:15PM (6/11/2007)
Actually, an afterwarket "Ford 'Woody'" add-on kit for imports and compacts would be a pretty neat idea.
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Aetius 1:56PM (6/11/2007)
Instead of a car wash you'd have to clean it with Swiffer
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Matt W. 2:42PM (6/11/2007)
I've actually seen that car in midtown Manhattan. The site of it stopped me in my tracks wishing I had my camera. I didn't think my camera phone would do it justice considering the poor quality of other car photos I've tried to capture with it.
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willem 3:53PM (6/11/2007)
Truly a manifesto of Japanese "quality": cover it up with a pretentious material posing as something more desirable.
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Will 4:11PM (6/11/2007)
What's next? A Morgan.
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bestmacs 4:13PM (6/11/2007)
G'day from Down Under,
Stumped for puns? Never - that'd just go against the grain!
Cheers, mate
David McMahon
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Rick 5:03PM (6/11/2007)
Yeah, I actually saw this in Tarrytown - about 30 minutes north of Manhattan last week.. FUGLY..
I don't get why they didn't cut around the damned badges.
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Christopher Watts 10:48AM (6/13/2007)
It needs a wing on the back to complete the look. It needs a wing!! Why wouldn't he/she have added a wing to help it stand out??
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