What's in your bowl?

Trix Hoax

Apparently Trix aren't just for kids.  My cousin Martyn served me a full bowl via the Internet this morning.  "Have you seen the atrocity that was created on the 2009 TL?"  That was the blurb that came through my email.  Goodness, had all hell broken loose overnight? 

I religiously read Internet automotive sites and had heard nothing regarding the official debut of the 2009 Acura TL.  This was strange.  I popped over to Autoblog to catch a glimpse.  Nothing.  Then it was off to Car Spy Shots for a viewing.  Zilch.  How about Jalopnik?  Nada.  Perhaps Left Lane News might have something.  Nope. 

I then took the time to fully open the message that Martyn had sent me.  It stated that he had seen a picture at Car & Driver.  I immediately gave this a second thought.  Car & Driver is a monthly magazine and the sites listed above are blog & forum type sites.  This wouldn't make sense that C&D would have pictures and the others not.  Perhaps C&D broke an embargo and released the pictures early?  

So over to Car & Drive I go.  Sure enough, there seems to be a article on the 2009 Acura TL.  To the right of the article is a picture of the new TL.  Something doesn't quite seem right.  I click on the caption that promises additional photographs.  I click to enlarge the single photograph of the 2009 edition.  Underneath the picture it says Acura TL illustration.  It's nothing more than a chopped and Photoshoped picture of the TSX.  

Martyn was trying to feed me a bowl of Trix bright and early.  

Not so fast, Mr. Bridgeman.