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  The eternal cry of 98% of car fans in the past few days has not been the usual "More horsepower!", but "Just bring us the Accord Wagon!". The new America-bound Honda Crosstour has been teased for the past month or so with boring videos with what looked like a slightly larger and higher Accord wagon as the star. These teases focused mainly on the Euro-Accord grille and the very back, with no teases of the odd body lines and scaling problems that have now been seen in the official photos. Now, with the new photos, it's reminding me of "Edsel Day", when people thought they were getting a new, good-looking car with advanced tech when in reality they got an oddly-shaped thing that reminds one of the Pontiac Aztec. This is why there has been an overflow of negative comments on the Crosstour's Facebook Page, as well as new anti-Crosstour groups such as my friends, http://bit.ly/uglycar.

  Something I've noticed, also, is that car enthusiasts are the main group heading the Crosstour hate, because they know what a good-looking car is and what the Crosstour should be, an Accord Wagon. Many regular people have a neutral opinion of the Crosstour, and they have every right to that opinion. But there won't be many hardcore car enthusiasts buying a Crosstour as a people-mover when there are other options from companies anywhere from Chevy to BMW.