Light Entertainment: Can You Identify These Vehicles With Near-identical Taillights?

Corey Lewis
by Corey Lewis

We came up with a little design element identification game today, involving the four near-identical taillamps you see above. This collage is compiled from four different vehicles. Can you tell which is which?

Get your image search fingers ready.

It’s true, designers have limits. However, after looking at the images above, one can only conclude someone drew Landwind levels of inspiration from another car’s design. Either that, or all designers have a limited “vocabulary.”

Give us your guesses for vehicles 1 to 4, and in the near future the answers will appear; your burning curiosity sated. Do your research and make your choices carefully.

Corey Lewis
Corey Lewis

Interested in lots of cars and their various historical contexts. Started writing articles for TTAC in late 2016, when my first posts were QOTDs. From there I started a few new series like Rare Rides, Buy/Drive/Burn, Abandoned History, and most recently Rare Rides Icons. Operating from a home base in Cincinnati, Ohio, a relative auto journalist dead zone. Many of my articles are prompted by something I'll see on social media that sparks my interest and causes me to research. Finding articles and information from the early days of the internet and beyond that covers the little details lost to time: trim packages, color and wheel choices, interior fabrics. Beyond those, I'm fascinated by automotive industry experiments, both failures and successes. Lately I've taken an interest in AI, and generating "what if" type images for car models long dead. Reincarnating a modern Toyota Paseo, Lincoln Mark IX, or Isuzu Trooper through a text prompt is fun. Fun to post them on Twitter too, and watch people overreact. To that end, the social media I use most is Twitter, @CoreyLewis86. I also contribute pieces for Forbes Wheels and Forbes Home.

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  • Marko Marko on Jul 26, 2017

    The comments have spoiled it, but I recognized 1-3. I honestly thought 4 was some type of French car, since I can't remember the last time I was behind an Amanti.

  • Gass-man Gass-man on Jul 26, 2017

    The bigger question is why do so many automotive designers all play "me too" at the same time? This is a good example of that, as is the proliferation of hideous ground-to-hood grilles on VW, Audi, Lexus, etc.

  • Kc1980 Kc1980 on Jul 26, 2017

    1 Lincoln Mks. 2. Kia rio 5 3. Hyundai xg 350 4 Chrysler 300????

  • KOKing KOKing on Jul 26, 2017

    I thought this game woulda been more fun using 4 cars that use the ACTUAL same taillight, like the Hella one that was on Diablos, Saleen S7s, and I think some Spykers and early Paganis among others. And that comes with the benefits of looking at ass ends of exotics and not Kias.

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