When I was a real little kid, maybe 8 or 10 or so, my mother took me shopping for a new car and I distinctly recall bursting into tears at the sight of the first one she liked because I thought it looked mean. I've always wanted to hear the inside scoop on whether cars intentionally anthropomorphise so well or if that was just one of those happy accidents.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/08/nissan...
It's almost like one of the Pixar 'Cars' or the characters in the Chevron commercials from a ways back.