2025 Cookie Awards

2025 Cookie Award Winners
All to simple for this world!

​   Ever find a cookie cutter and automatically know what type of car it is.  For this reason AutoLooks has gone out and found this years all too simple designs and handed them out new Cookie Award.  Cookie Cutter shapes deserve to get noticed too! 

2025 BYD e-Vali

Standard in Van design.

     BYD was correct in wanting to enter the van ring.  But when you use the simplest design formula which has been overused over the years, you are bound to blend into an already saturated marketplace.  Too bad BYD didn't utilize any of their formula's from the rest of the lineup for this van, as they would have had a different outcome.

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2025 Cenntro Logistar 300

Could it be anyone else?  Yes it could.

     Cenntro may have been in this game for some time now, but they could have made a better choice in the layout of their new van.  Choosing the same layout as Ford, VW, Mercedes and even Alfa, may be this products biggest downfall when breaking through this markets noise.  Guess price can win the day.

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2025 Chery Fulwin A9

​This decades new cookie cutter sedan.

    Chery has long been a company who blends into a saturated marketplace and it seems its new A9 is not going to change that formula.  Borrowing a page from the Ford Five Hundred, the all new A9 sets the stage for this decades standard cookie cutter layout.

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2025 Exeed E08

A simple entry into our future Van needs.

    The future is here and it seems Chinese companies want to lead its charge.  But when you do it in such a way that it reminds of sci-fi movies from the past, it may not be the best way to set the stage for this future.  Past movies were great, but lets keep their designs set in the future of the past.

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2025 Haima EX-00

This is autonomous travel.

    When you think of autonomous travel and what a standard product for this would look like, two things come to mind.  Canoo and Haima, as both products set the stage for simple autonomous travel.  Too bad that Haima took the path of a past favourite for its part in the autonomous future.

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2025 Li-Auto Mega

This is a real product.

    Li-Auto is already known for their basic designs, but when the Mega took the stage earlier this year, we all thought it was a joke.  But this is no joke and like the Cybertruck did a few years back, this is the all new van from Li-Auto and this is how it is going to look.  Guess your kids can get jobs designing cars now.

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2025 Mercedes-Benz EQS

Simple revised to being more simple.

      The EQS set the stage for Mercedes charge in on the EV marketplace, but with simplest form since the Ford Five Hundred, this sedan was in need of a change.  Seems no one at M-B got our memo about better enhancements, as the 2nd generation of the EQS is still as drab as the original.

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2025 Nissan N7

Simple will not save you in the end.

     Nissan may be in a heap of trouble these days, and it seems that they think simple designs will get them out of the hole they are stuck in.  Simple may make it faster to hit the market, but in the end no one will notice you in a crowd as standing out is more beneficial.  Hopefully Honda can save them being buried in the hole they got themselves into.

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2025 Rivian R2

Same cookie.   Smaller size.

    Rivian has made a name for themselves in the global automotive marketplace by besting the competition.  Too bad they decided to use this winning formula on the R2, as the simple design from the R1 has just been downsized.  It could work in their favour, but too many cookies on the shelf will lead to confusion.

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2025 Rivian R3

Rebirth of an icon from a different brand.

     The 80's were a different time and as we evolved out of this glut of basic designs we learned how to better ourselves.  Guess no one told the designers at Rivian, as the new R3 follows a similar design formula that Lancia followed in the 80's.  But hey when retro is all the craze, are they wrong to follow the trend?

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2025 Rolls Royce Cullinan

Simple and elegant

     Rolls shocked the world when they released the original Cullinan.  But when it came time to update this game changing product, it seems no one wanted to step outside of there shell to stand out.  Too bad, as most of us are tired of the same old Rolls format.  It's time for a change.

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2025 Smart #5

Pound or hashtag, its still boring.

    Smart has new owners as Geely takes the reins away from Mercedes.  This is a good thing for the brand which is need of more products.  But lets put a bit more work into separating this brand out from the crowd, as it built the world of new age city cars.  Guess the city aspect is still here, but maybe a bit more from suburban life could benefit the update.

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2025 VinFast VF3

The basic package

    VinFast knows what they have to do to gain a foothold in the global automotive marketplace.  But when you are a company of game changing designs and breakthrough innovation, you think your smallest package would have more to offer the world.  Guess simple as the key to micro success at VinFast.

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2025 Volkswagen Teramont Pro

A more basic Atlas

    Can you make one of the most basic full size CUV's even more basic. Sure steel wheels and a lack of character are one way.  But when you remove all of the standard character lines, accents and even the grille, you can really bring a product into the realm of basics.  That is what VW did when they made the Teramont.