Cool vs. Cute? Room for Everyone

This one's cool: The Mixim, Nissan’s newest concept car was just revealed to the world during the week’s Frankfurt Motor Show, so says Japanator. This car was heavily influenced by anime and manga, developed by Yoo Eunsun…the car is conceptually rooted in computer games, and visually influenced by manga comics, anime (Japanese animation) and Second Life.

Meanwhile, as reported by Wired magazine, this one's cute: the Nissan Pino (a reference to Pinocchio?) is a micro mini-car for $8000 that you can pimp with patterned seat covers, tissue dispensers, stuffed animals, matching handbags, stickers and CD cases. Because, as the Pino site says, “Everything is better cute.”