Evidence that not only does the automobile industry purposely build mechanically unsound cars (reliability does not pay in the long run), they are also designing cars with aesthetic terror in mind - cars that are guaranteed to look very silly in no time whatsoever. This ensures that the new car consumer is left with no choice but to buy another rapidly aging, moronic looking auto within the space of four years.

Our First Offender: The (Toyota) Scion XB

Now, what rational person would want to wake up every morning to a giant circa-1995 cell phone sitting in their driveway? The car strikes me as easily disassembled by bare hand. It must be a deathtrap, unable to withstand any degree of accident, jeez, if someone even looked at it the wrong way, fatalities would ensue.

“The xB is all about attitude. The question is, how much can you handle?”

Good question. If I see you driving one of these…expect some “urban attitude.”
A fist could conquer the dashboard in one blow, and if I was relegated to driving a Scion XB, this practice would be common as I tried to figure out exactly what day it was that common sense called in sick.