7 Grille Designs That Have No Chill
Sometimes you look in your rear-view mirror and practically spit your teeth out at the sight of the grille filling your view. Maybe it’s as angry as a freshly-castrated camel, as ugly as a bad boxer, or maybe it’s just the size of a small country, but grille estate is being used to stamp a truckload of identity onto the front of cars that might otherwise go unnoticed. We’ve put together a list of grilles that have stuck in our memory as seriously needing to chill.
2019 Toyota Avalon
The Avalon is just a four-door, three-box saloon, or sedan, for the North American market. There’s a choice of drivetrains and even a hybrid option, but by far the most striking thing about it is a grille that seems to just keep going in every direction. We can’t stop looking at it, purely because the front is all grille…
2017 Suzuki S-Cross
After a few years plugging its cheap, well-specified and popular S-Cross hatchback-on-stilts, Suzuki went big on the facelift in search of a bolder, more recognisable look. We’d say they achieved it. A chunky mirrored border lines a deep, angular and surprisingly American-looking vertically-slatted grille.
2017 BMW Concept X7
The X7 turned more than a few heads when the design was launched to test public opinion. The main reason was a kidney grille that would make an ocean liner look undersized. Combined with narrow, slitted headlight clusters no doubt employing the latest LED technology, the front is one that you’re not exactly going to miss.
2015 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro
Sweet Jesus, that’s a grille to get you noticed. Looking like the love-child of a tank and a horseshoe moustache, the meaty front end of 2015’s uprated 4Runner TRD Pro will clear a path through motorway traffic like Godzilla riding a Harley-Davidson. The orange paint is perfect for it, too, emphasising the black horizontal spar and retro Toyota logo.
2018 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera
We can totally appreciate why a 211mph Aston Martin would need a lot of cooling, so a lot of grille space is probably necessary. Aston didn’t hold back on the design, though. The Superleggera’s mouth, soon to be spoiled by the unfortunate need for number plates, is absolutely as big as its own face will allow. It’s kind of like an automotive Mick Jagger.
2018 Lexus RX
Lexus introduced the ‘spindle grille’ with a concept in 2011, eventually transferring it to the 2013 GS and the rest of the range thereafter. Brand die-hards were shocked; appalled, even. Their beloved purveyors of silence and cream leather had gone all… sporty. Whether you love it or loathe it, both the spindle grille and the RX SUV helped turn the brand’s fortunes around.
2019 Chevrolet Camaro
To get specific, here, we’re walking about the SS model with the ‘floatie’ badge. That’s ‘floating bowtie,’ if you’re wondering. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people choose to spell it ‘flowtie.’ The Camaro SS gets a black spar across the grille that gives the impression of a huge, gaping mouth that’s coming to vacuum-up air and small animals.
Comments
The Toyota looks as if it just ate a big Mac and couldn’t handle it
The Avalon looks like a blue whale opening its mouth to consume other cars or fish…
It looks like it had a stroke due to the fat found in a big Mac.
Lexus looks as if it’s the Vehicle of choice for Ghostface
It seems its now a battle of how big each car company can get their grills now, soon the entire front of the car will be just one big grill with the engine visible….
An exposed engine sounds cool. I actually love a big grill
The X cross and the DBS Superlegerra seem perfectly fine, but the others are full blown. Mostly Toyota, Lexus, and BMW are starting to drastically increase the grill size. Just hoping this trend ends.
Ya know i may be alone in this but i, for one, think these big honking grills can lool kinda neat. It gives the car presence and posture
It can look very aggressive also
WHO THE HELL IS ASKING FOR THESE?. Or are car manufacturers just somehow becoming less efficient with their cooling systems?
Right here. I’m asking for them.
What kind of look will the prius have once it get this grill ?
Like a mentaly unstable hammer shark.
i like the 4runner
B3 Passat called
Says these have no taste
Love those.
That’s B3 Passat, not B4.
Prelude called …
Khm khm…
The Avalon looks like Toyota decided to put two grills on top of each other.
Say hello to the 1968 Dodge Charger,the pioneer of them all. unfortunately I couldn’t get a picture,as the PC website won’t let me copy-paste one