Copying the japanese car styling is a big mistake because most of them are hideous. This altima rates a 7 on a scale of 10, but is one of the rare exceptions.
The current toyota camry is just as ugly as the Aztec, a one on a scale of
- The honda ridgeline is uglier than the aztec, a zero. (Please don't park that thing where I can see it). The honda civic is a 3 and I don't see many of them on the streets. The hot selling toyota corolla is only a 4 to me. The japanese are revising their jelly bean styling by adding lumps. The headlights on their minivans and many cars are frog like.
Most GM cars have only managed to get up to the 5 mark The cobalt / pursuit is a 6. The G6 is a 4 as are the expensive buicks. The cadillacs are 3's. By comparison, my boring jelly-bean 97 cavalier is a 4. The new mustang is an 8, the only one I can think of that is outrageously expensive. The chrysler sebring was a 7 but they revised it to a 5 by making it look like a saturn. All of chryslers other cars are starting to look like trucks and SUV's. The SUV is dead dead dead. They have never done anything at all for me and they are churning them out, all looking alike.
Car makers have to stop using the color gray. No more grey interiors. A grey car looks like they didn't bother to paint it. GM has very few nice colors, all of them are greys, silvers, sands, dark muddy colors. I guess the color really doesn't matter if the car is a 3 or a 4 anyway.
Just a few of my unsolicited opinions.