GENEVA MOTOR SHOW: Is Infiniti's Out-Of-The-Box ETHEREA Putting On A Styling Clinic?

What do you mean by "Putting On A Styling Clinic"? It looks like the worst from Hyundai, to my eyes. A combination of weird and unattractive swoops and body creases (old Tiburon), a face from "Cars" (the movie), and different for the sake of different (rather than for the sake of beauty) such as the reverse kinked C-pillar screams "we're trying too hard." That, or "what were they thinking?"

Design is OK, but the name is too close to Urethra and could lead to confusion...

Car looks like a piece of shit but thats some nice camera-work

Hyundai beat them to those tail lights

I like it! It breaks with the elongated jelly-bean shape that automakers have been plopping out since the Ford Taurus was introduced back in '84/'85.

It looks better than the Infiniti EX and more fun to drive than the Lexus LF-CH, which looks like the rear half of a MazdaSpeed3 grafted onto the nose of an IS250.

I would take this and pocket the difference over the 5 GT or Panamera.

I remember the Audi 100 and the Audi 90. The 100 may have been first to introduce rounded corners and appearance, but the Taurus(IMO) personified the "jellybean" movement.

The Audi still carried some of, at the time, slab sided characteristics. You can see it in the Audi's hood, roofline and side profile = Flat.

I'm no Ford Taurus lover, I do admire the HO specially manufactured Yamaha engines.

I'm a minority on this car, but this is a design triumph. Okay, a few elements are overdone and over-chromed, but this is a concept.

- The profile from stem to stearn is simply amazing--a one piece arc that flows beautifully.
- The coke-bottle sides are a completely new interpretation of the idea and unite the cars overall look.
- Infiniti finally translated many of the best designs ideas from other vehicles, but especially the originial FX into a car. Your can see these elements in the rear glass, the rear hatch panel, the front and rear wheel arches, the grill, etc. It works.
- The new interpretation of the Infiniti grill (sans lighting) is amazing and unique among all automakers.
T- he rear door kink gets an A+ for originality, and it does tie in with other kink styling elements, but I would still kill it. The chrome front door pillar is so gorgeous with the overall roofline that I would imitate it on the rear door C-pillar--thus smoothing the overall roof arc without interuption. The Infiniti kink is still alive and well as echoed in the rear hatch glass, the grill, etc.
- The entire concept is over chromed. In white under the lights this is probably effective, but in real life, I suspect so much chrome takes takes away from what will be classic design with some tacky boy-racer cartoonish add ons.
The interior door panels beautifully mimic the external design. Impressive.

If Infiniti does not expand on this concept by echoing it throughout their product line, then the execs should be ashamed. For the first time, Infiniti has done what only BMW (among all luxury brands) has been able to achieve--find a completely unique and original design theme which can work on vehicles from small to large, tall to short. Infiniti has also avoided the trendy, faddish styling mistakes of Nissan. With a bit of massaging for production, this concept will, in my opinion, go down as a defining moment for Infiniti.

Yes! And if they build it as close as possible to this concept, they will watch the cash rolling in!!

This looks kind of rushed..