"That grilles are getting bigger - taller in particular - was quite evident at the 2005 Detroit auto show, which opened for press previews of new models Jan. 9.
The use of the supersize Audi grille has since spread from A8 sedans equipped with the top-of-the-line W-12 engine to the redesigned A6 model, and it will be on the new A4 that arrives in the United States this spring.
Chrysler's 300 sedan wears a grille that is huge in proportion to the car's overall size, reminiscent of old Bentleys; the scaled-up grille implies that there is a bigger, hungrier engine behind it. It screams "Hemi V-8," even if a particular 300 is fitted with a less ferocious V-6. Chrysler's designers have used this approach before, as in Dodge pickups with grilles that mimicked the look of Mack and Kenworth trucks.
Subaru has a lot riding on a new look it unveiled at the Detroit show. The rounded triangular grille - roughly the shape of a guitar pick - of its B9 Tribeca, a seven-seat sport utility wagon, is the key to fresh design motifs aimed at revising the company's image, according to Andreas Zapatinas, the Tribeca's designer. Previously used on design studies shown in Europe and Japanese an, the grille is inspired by the cross section of an aircraft fuselage and the intake of a jet engine, said Mr. Zapatinas. "
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