Cartoons have shown us the proper way to anthropomorphize an automobile, by making the headlights into eyes and the grill into a mouth. Most of us figured that out on our own, anyway. Every once in a while, you'd see a car in real life dressed up like it was alive, with eyebrows or eyelashes above the headlights and a smile in front. In the 1950s, British Petroleum had a talking car with a friendly face in the front called Mr. Beep, which they used to teach children about traffic safety. The Toronto Metropolitan Police wanted to have an anthropomorphized talking car for their safety campaign, too, so in 1975, they made an animated version, which was kind of cute. But then in 1979, they unveiled Blinky as a real car customization. But this Blinky was completely different.
For some reason, they built a long face for the car, and set it on the hood right over the windshield. The eyes did move and the eyelids blinked. Blinky talked through his nose, which was as long as the hood. The face covered the entire windshield, so Blinky couldn't be driven. In all its public appearance, Blinky was towed! Read about this abomination of a car character and the super scary safety campaign that came with him at the Autopian.