Gallery: Headlight Eyes and Smiles Make Cars Look Almost Human
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__2003-2012 Rolls-Royce Phantom__ "The Phantom has what you might call vestigial eyes—they're very, very small. They appear to be evolving out of existence like some deepwater fish that's shedding its eyeballs over millions of years." *Photo: Drive Images/Transtock*
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__2007-2012 Smart Fortwo__ "The Smart car has a face—a very deliberate face. And it looks like the face of a clown that hides under your bed and is going to stab you in the middle of the night when you're 4 years old." *Photo: Transtock*
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__1958 Edsel__ "It was Sartre who said that obscenity is the hole. There's some argument to be made that this car rang that bell for people. It looked like it was amputated, castrated, missing something." *Photo: Richard Coombs/Alamy*
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__1958-1961 Austin-Healey "Bugeye/Frogeye" Sprite__ "It's a crap automobile, let me tell you, from stem to stern. But it was so irresistible to look at. There have been a lot of small cars, cute cars, that have prospered solely because they look cute." *Photo: Richard Coombs/Alamy*
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__2012 Dodge Charger__ "What is with that sort of vacancy in the middle of that car? It doesn't do anything, it doesn't say anything—it just looks hurt. Whatever's going on there, it's not well. It's a little Halloween-y." *Photo: Thomas Kraft/Transtock*
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__2012 Fisker Karma__ "It looks like the mustache on some Monty Python cartoon. It's got some big, cartoonish, regal Edwardian mustache as a grille. If it's not that, it's the narcotic smile of a Cheshire cat. Or, it's Jack Nicholson as the Joker." *Photo: Thomas Kraft/Transtock*
