Big butts and humps

Last year, my mum was checking the market for a new car. SUVs were all the range then, so picking a sedan was out of the question. She eventually bought a Starex, but after looking at practically all the new cars being sold then, I was quite impressed by the fact that automobile design isn't really that far from fashion designs. From Fortunners to CR-Vs (the old version), Sorentos, Cayennes, Rav-4s and Alterras, it seemed the car designers were just as obsessed about the ass as The Black -Eyed peas and jean makers are. It was all about big butts then. Even if they all looked different from the side, from behind it was pretty hard to distinguish one's booty from another. All of them pert up and tight, you'd thing they'd just rolled out of the same plastic surgeon's clinic. (A very good one, at that).

But, thankfully, fashion changes. Apparently, so has our obsession with butts. The new models out now seem least concerned about their booties and more about their edginess. The large rumps mooning us in the highways have given way to rears that hardly resemble..erm, rumps at all. The last time I saw the CR-V rolling down the highway, I thought it sure looked fanstastic on the side, but god was it a mess from behind. None of its streamlined profile is reflected in its trunk. Instead, one gets a hodge-podge of geometric figures put together, abstract and unblended. Pretty much like the incomprehensible rocker fashion that's so big right now. It's a milieu of ideas put together so badly that it just doesn't make sense. Striped leggings, flowered dress shirts and metallic beads? A rear that looks like a pear with two triangular tail lights poking out?

Please tell me next season will be better than this.