Now I know this is perhaps going to sound a bit ridiclous coming from me, might even make ones heart flutter and some of you may even see metaphorical red. If it goes really bad, I might lose friends over this, but I hope you all think more of me and can sustain work though what I am going to say.

I like the Nissan Cube.

I should rephrase that, I like THIS side of the Nissan Cube.

There is something unbelievably scuptural about that side of the car that I just want to run my hands all over it. I could see some form of that car in clay, something that a dedicated art student slaved over to make just right.  Take out the glass windows, the door handles and change the color to a earthenware huge or perhaps a more typical glaze color and I would stare at that four hours in an art meuseum. Just look at how the windows are almost framed in the body. The designers didn’t just put in glass so the driver could see out of it, they added that extra line which gives the ton of metal some depth.  I get tingles in my fingers and a real desire to get my hands into the 50 lbs of clay that I still havn’t touched since I bought it.

Unfortunatly, the Cube from the opposite side, is just that, a cube.  A square car that looks similar to every other box-esk car that’s popped up as of late.

It’s uninspireing to say the least, even if it does have some of the same attributes as the other side.

Point being, I have no intention of buying it (besides my car has upwards of another 150,000 miles to go before I’m in the market) from the maerican market.  What does make it intriguing is the Japaneese version which actually has a third row of seats, not apparently available in the greater US and can fit three carseats across them.  While I’m not looking for child transport I do know what that means, wider car equals wider seats and a little bit more spacious compact car, always appreciated. 

The down side of Japan is that they have that nice extended, no blind spot, window on the left side which means there would be no point in getting one shipped over for the extra seating unless I wanted to take a chance on RHD in a LHD world. I just might be up to the challenge…