Auto brands meet the Gumball challenge at LA Auto Show

LA Auto show officials drank too much coffee in their meeting to come up with a design challenge for auto manufacturers for the 2022 LA Auto Show later this month. A young executive trying to prove himself said, “How about a Gumball challenge? There has to be some kind of connection to gumballs? Kids love it, and their fathers will think of the Gumball rally race and movie. All those boomer grand-dads will be down here with their sons and grandsons in droves!”

The executives looked at each other, ordered another round of Frappuccinos and said, “Sounds good, kid, you’re really going places in this business!”

Here’s what several manufacturers came up with. Hold the cream and sugar.

Ford submitted a version of their transit van with no doors for quick delivery of gumballs.

Sea-ray somehow got invited and they created a car that looks like a motor boat in a gumball parade.

Fiat relied on their talent for design to build this car that looks like it is sneaking away from a birthday party.

Toyota reaffirms their commitment to green manufacturing with this balloon gumball car that can land on any house undetected which should increase home burglaries and accidents with Santa.

Subaru is looking to connect with their high school earth science teacher base with this car designed to allow solo camping for up to a week in any National Gumball Forest.

The folks at Saab couldn’t break away from the Abba concert long enough to create a car so the submitted the drawings they had instead.

Honda explained that this gumball concept car blocks the view out the front in order to build happiness in the driver from “gumball exposure.”

Mazda is going the easy route by placing gumballs on the side panels. A spokesperson said the goal was to make the car easy to find in parking lots outside Disney while also providing more crash protection than their normal cars.

Mercedes said they were inspired by the song lyrics, “Up in the sky and away in a really nice balloon” or something like that. They went for a breezy, summer feeling that should be popular from Palm Beach to Palm Springs and all the Palms.

Wow! If you purchase this Nissan Gumball Machine, you’ll enjoy giant gumballs every minute of your cross-country road trip!