Looks like it's heavily lexus/avalon influenced. Surprising thing is that it has actually shed the blandness....a Camry signiture.

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Thats a pretty rash statement. That is still an exceedingly boring car. Its just an exceedingly boring car with rakish headlights.

 

I think the most amazing thing I saw in the whole deal was the collection of knuckleheads on that board getting all worked up by a Camry.

WTF?????????????????

 

The most amazing thing I saw was the very existence of a Camry fan forum...

 

Not a huge fan of the Camary, but that actually looks pretty good..

 

same

 

It looks decent from what I can tell. I'd like to see the interior.

 

You stole my thunder! What disturbing times we live in when there's a multi-page thread worshipping the Toyota Camry....on a website called "Toyota Nation"....

 

Good thing the '06 Impala was styled to compete with the LAST Camry.

 

Yes it is bland. But it looks good and is nowhere near as bland as the new Impala.

 

Ehh, I hate the new look of Lexus

But at least the new Camry won't be so bland

 

That's an unfair statement! lol.

How could they design it to "compete with the NEXT Camry" when it wasn't seen yet?

And, exactly what about the styling of the new Impala inhibits it from competing with this or the next Camry?

 

Camry enthusiasts

That's like getting excited about a washing machine.

 

Better than the last one, but still very boring.

 

No, completely fair.

I see two different strategies regarding styling here. Toyota has success with the old Camry and decides to push the envelope abit with edgier styling for it's new volume model.

Chevy has success with the relatively bold (for Chevy) but dated styling of the Impala, but decides to tone down and expunge certain Chevy cues and go with more generic styling for it's new volume model.

I suppose that you can make a case for either strategy. But I believe even people who are merely looking for an appliance, will be more attracted to the prettier appliance.


Personally, I would have liked to see Chevy stretching alittle bit on the new Impala, instead of falling back to the safety of it's risk-avoidance-at-all-costs thinking. I'm not talking about tearing up the rule book, like DCX did with the 300, just be bold enough to add some character, that's all.

For one thing, if I were in the decision making chain, I would have fought to retain some version of the round tail light theme for Impala. It made a powerful yet low key brand styling statement for the current Impala, and now that bold Chevrolet element is gone...replaced with what looks like (previous gen) Toyota-esqe generica.