car design thread

Image Unavailable, Please Login A LOT more like a Jag XJ220...

 

On a different note, those in the Los Angeles area may be interested in the annual Art Center Car Classic being held Sunday, Oct 28:
https://www.artcenter.edu/carclassic/

Always an interesting event to attend. Here's a list of guests/judges/speakers - https://www.artcenter.edu/carclassic/guests.php

 

Sadly, i can't make it this year.
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It's about putting the driver in the prime position on the road. You don't have to think about each side of the car as much because you're in the middle. I love that new McLaren. Central driving position, good looks, and lots of performance.

£1.75m is a bit steep though, even for the wealthy. A Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus 004S looks like a great deal by comparison. It's less than a quarter of the price!

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Like a Mark II in a world of chrome and fins ...

 

the long tail is almost a pastiche.
much prefer the XJ15 from years ago; truly functional as a racer yet not silly for the road.
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I wish someone would make a regular production central seat car for 300k or thereabouts

 

I cannot believe the surfacing on the canopy! It looks like a $500 kit car
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Looks like a heat distorted glass/plexi piece.
Not very good.

 

Kia ProCeed design story

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=666778670382971

 

i was at silverstone when these were run as a support race to the gp years ago, and i asked one of the driver's about them, and he said they were a real bear to drive. very unstable and dangerous.
i have no personal experience with them, but i have always remembered that statement.

 

Jeremy Clarkson did a supercar compilation video years ago and I recall the same assessment from him. He said the XJ15 would randomly decide to throw you into a spin.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Ares Design Project Wami Gives 1950s Maseratis A Lovely Makeover
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https://www.motor1.com/news/273799/ares-design-project-wami-revealed/

 

To each his own, but that's not for me!

 

Big time ball-drop, even worse than Jim G’s “whatever they are’s”.....built on a Miata platform? How they got from the ‘412’ design to this is a conundrum.....

 

I have the exact car in the picture currently in the shop for work. I have driven it and its a blast , didn't find it unstable .

 

The door didn’t seem to quite fit well either.

 

Wheels just right.

 

thats interesting.
did you get to take it on a track anywhere?

 

No just on the street , maybe be a different animal driven in anger

 

thats the impression i got from the pro - at the limit is where it exhibits its faults.
still, a good looking car.

 

Over th e last several years there has been much hand wringing over Ferrari Design. Pininfarina is no longer the sole designer for Ferrari, and Flavio Manzoni and the in-house design team are driving the design direction for the brand.
I believe the in-house team is doing a fantastic design job keeping the Ferrari design language alive.
I have the utmost respect for what Pininfarina did for Ferrari Design for decades. Time for a new era.
https://magazine.ferrari.com/en/events/2018/10/10/news/ferrari_red_dot_design_awards-47658/

 

Hell, I even like the way a California looks!

 

Portofino?

 

Never really warmed up to the California