The people at Automobile magazine have given the 2010 Nissan Cube its "Design of the Year" award.
Although they admit the Cube isn't a beauty, isn't elegant, and not particularly original, they do say it has charm, and that it all just works.
I'd have to agree, too. In my review of the 2009 Nissan Cube SL, I said the Cube had a "funky, techie, avant-garde sort of personality." This car is, indeed, loaded with personality, and it does not look much like anything else on the road. I do suspect there will be a fair amount of controversy surrounding this choice, though.
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2010 Nissan Cube - 2010 Design of the year (Automobile magazine)
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From Car and Driver: I asked the Cube's chief designer, Yoshi Akiyama, 42, what cars influenced him as he sat at the drawing table. "No cars," he replied. "I'm not so much a car guy. I was looking at refrigerators from the '50s. I liked how the edges were rounded." Akiyama once styled an excavator for Caterpillar.
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