2006 L.A. Auto Show: Acura Advanced Sedan Concept

Um … honestly? We don’t know what to make of this one, folks. We’re about eight hours into Day 1 of the L.A. Auto Show and aren’t sure if our weary eyes are playing tricks on us or not. The Acura Advanced Sedan Concept shown here is out there. Way out there.

We’re going to quote the press release here because we don’t want you to think we’re making this stuff up: “The primary goal of this design study was to create a sophisticated, refined sedan with a mysterious presence.”

Mysterious is right, but is the mystery “Why make something so ugly?” or “Are we supposed to like this?” We’re just not sure. Acura has been making such eye-pleasing designs for the past few years we don’t see the need for a radical shift in design philosophy — and definitely not one that shifts in this direction.

There aren’t many vitals because this is a pure design concept. All we can give you are the following images for you to ponder — and discuss — among yourselves.

Comments

kind of reminds me of the cadillac 16 concept, except even stranger

It's certainly out there.
Pull those headlights up about 8" as a continuance of the rather cool radiator chrome and drop that really stupid third brake light.
Nice concept though.

VERY radical for Acura which usually has timid styling on it's vehicles. But not radical in a good way...

I read that consumers report gave a ford sedan the award for ,"most reliable", what model Sedan was this?

Paint her red, slap a bug "Rust-Eez" sticker on the hood, and repeat "One Winner, 23 losers." over and over til it comes to you...

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

What an ass stain.

I agree with removing the third brake light.

Front and Rear lights Longer Vertically use what you have in the front as foog lights and add front lights fine in their locations but just extended lower but still counter sunk.

In other words 4 pieces of light in the front.