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Torch did a terrible job of not telling us that the maker in question is Nissan.
Maybe those Nissan PR dudes were just future Autopian members who didn’t want to miss out on a birthday drawing.
Me: hears 2.5L 170HP CVT. Immediately stops listening and starts doodling boobs.
I think Nissan boobs are a sagging front bumper on an Altima. Bra optional.
… This metaphor isn’t fun anymore
Me: sweet, a decent commuter! Decrease the hp by 20 and it’ll be even better.
Without cheating and looking at the answer hidden upside down I got Nissan SUV. Too small to be a Murano and too large and not ludicrous enough to be a Juke, so gotta be a Rogue. Thanks to y’all turning me onto Cardle I’ve gotten a lot better at telling jelly beans from each other.
Oh I’m pretty bad at identifying cars, thanks for the reminder about Cardle. The American output of the 70s-80s is either: horrible heavy iron land barge (New Yorker? 88?) or wheezy malaise trash pile (Gremlin? Chevette?) I literally don’t know these cars from one another, no matter how much Bishop I read.
And now all those PR folks know you were lying. Sure, you didn’t publish it when it would have been an issue, but you still managed to renege. Nissan’s gonna stop allowing in journalists who can sketch now.
There may be a statute of limitations that keeps them from coming after you legally, but they can still snub you.
I’m hoping whatever I agreed to expired after a decade?
I suspect that the PR team is entirely different by now, so you’re probably safe, but it would be kind of funny if the one thing that got passed to each new staffer was a distrust of anyone who sketches at these events. Like a Ship of Theseus situation. Is it the same distrust of artists if none of the people from the event are still involved in perpetuating it?
“…so if you see a guy with a sketch pad, call security.”
“Because his sketches might reveal our new car design too early?”
“No, it’s because of the unspeakable things he did to the shrimp platter which the doctor says I shouldn’t describe, but just remember, no sketching!“
Either way, you went Rogue and we respect you for it. Glad we’re not Nissan out on anything, even if it’s 13 year old news.
This was a Rogue drawing in two respects: subject and artist.
Torch, it says it right on the drawing, albeit upside down: 2014 Rogue. You even underlined it. Top right.
Torch
Habitual Line Stepper
-Charlie Murphy.
Fuck yo’ Rogue, Nissan! Fuck yo’ Rogue!
Of course it would be Nissan that got in a tizzy about someone revealing what their aggressively bland crossover would kind of look like. I could understand if it was something more interesting like the new Z, but the Rogue? Nobody gives a shit about the Rogue.
It is their best selling model, I guarantee Nissan cares a lot about it. It looks like that generation peaked at over 400,000 units per year. That generation was also the best looking generation, the 1st gen looked like a cheap car that had been raised.
Looks like a Nissan Rogue to me.
definitely a Rogue, i’m honestly surprised they had the 2.5 in 2015.
I actually feel good about myself having guessed what it was without peeking at the comments. I also didn’t notice what was written in the pic until afterwards.
nissan blarghmobile
The sketch looks like a Honda HRV to me
You might call that a rough sketch, but compared with my skills, it’s practically a photograph.
My sketch’s make Torch’s look like a van Gogh..
More like a Van Go.
I thought it was a crossover?
I was hoping someone would make that joke!
I’m so terrible that I got F’s on my “art” in kindergarten.
I did too. I remember being curtly informed that the crayons were not for eating.
I have been a PR guy for almost 30 years and I am yet to have my own group of PR guys to murmur with. Sigh.
Given the number of commentors that immediately knew it was a Rogue, perhaps
Nissanunspoken PR hacks were right to want to confiscate your sketch?I mean, a sketch doesn’t mean I was going to publish it?
I’m just trying to say that I’m impressed by your sketch and I actually really like it…more than I like the actual design of that era Rogue.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh thank you
And I just showed it to two of my co-workers that own this era Rogue, and they both recognized it immediately and liked it.
It’s obviously a Rogue. Which is the least “secrety” secret out there. It’s a 7/8 scale Murano.
You could insert the Office meme “It’s the same picture”.
Nissan designers were just so ashamed that they had so little creativity, they didn’t want it to leak to the public.
I turned the poicture upside down and read your notes. It was the 2014 ______ _____.
Dude you went Rogue on the PR junket.
It’s got The Nissan Grille, so I have to guess Rogue based on proportions.
Based on the sketch I was certain it was a nissan or a mazda or a lexus or some other forgettable crossover but when I right-clicked and chose to open the pic in a new tab so I could see it a bit bigger the filename kinda gave it away…
https://images-stag.jazelc.com/uploads/theautopian-m2en/roguequicksketch.jpg
Spoilerrrrs!
So those PR people had never encountered a Rogue artist before?
COTD
This would definitely be a clear winner if we allowed COTDs from Exhaust Leaks. Take an honorary nomination, StillNotATony!
He was given an Altima-tum . . . Give up the sketch or say Ariya-derci to your press credentials.
Given how ground-breakingly extreme the Nissan Rogue’s design was, I’m not surprised the PR team freaked out.
Man, you really had Nissan’s biscuits in a vise with that NDA-shattering doodle of the 2015 Rogue, didn’t you?