1. An emotive advisory system for use by an occupant of an automotive vehicle, the system comprising: a computer configured to receive input indicative of an operating state of the vehicle and input indicative of an emotional state of the occupant, generate (i) data representing an avatar having an appearance and (ii) data representing a spoken statement for the avatar having at least one speech characteristic, the appearance and the at least one speech characteristic conveying a simulated emotional state of the avatar to the occupant, the simulated emotional state depending on at least one of the operating state of the vehicle and the emotional state of the occupant, and output the data representing the avatar for visual display and the data representing the statement for the avatar for audio play.