Asian Blandness

What's with Toyotas and blandness? Their conservative, generic approach to design paired with fairly decent engines and reliability has made them a major force in the auto industry.

Slapping a VLP on a Toyota is funny in itself. Toyota owners - I find - are very unlikely to do this, and in my informal observations Toyotas - at least the lower end ones - are almost not accounted for.

What does "WI S1" stand for? Don't know, don't care. Only thing I know is it does not make this kind of car any cooler than it is. In fact it only makes its intrinsic blandness more apparent and poignant. It is even ironic, I would say. It's as if somebody played a trick on the car's owner and stuck one of those schoolkid notes that says "kick me" on his back.