car design thread

However the 'cocoon' concept is not so adept for navigating roundabouts! This, according to Nick Mason...

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It's amazing how simple this car looks now (not in a bad way)

 

I love my beetle's door height. I can rest my arm on it perfectly. Can't do that with many newer cars.

 

Most new cars make me feel like a 10 year old in a third generation Corvette. I'm sure there's a world out there somewhere, but nothing I can see from inside the car gives me evidence of it.

 

One of the first cars I ever sat in was a late 60s Mustang which had a fairly high beltline plus really low seats. So I grew up thinking that was what a cool car was like.

As i got older and started to buy cars, I realized how claustrophobic that made me feel and grew to prefer a lower beltline.

 

Amazing how much better an Enzo looks today than back then.

 

Also looks better in person.
And in RED.

 

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It has Maserati 3200 style tail lights.

 

Well, I said it looks better. Still don't go for the anteater look.

 

I don't get the arch at the bottom...

 

‘Style’
‘Character’
Protection from ‘gravel rash’

 

Left it in the oven too long and it warped?

 

Visually reduces the massive side slabs. Otherwise it might look like an SUV

 

I dig it. Simply because its different without being visually offensive or over-gilded.

 

Instead it looks like one of the Dodge Chargers they used in "The Dukes of Hazard" after it did the big jump!

I like the rest of it, though.

 

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No Hofmeister kink in the glass D line

 

All things considered.........boring.......(imho, of course)

 

Very very nice... clean, athletic...

No angry eyes or mesh holes at random places, air intakes scattered around.

Excellent.

 

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Ian Callum on the Jaguar I Pace

 

Never underestimate the importance of color. When I was in the home building bidness, we would hire a colorist to design streetscapes. We would also follow color from shoes to clothes to cars to furniture to housing. Well, I say "we." That wasn't my wheelhouse.The only color I followed was green.

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Nice. Best effort in a long while, including while still part of ItalDesign.

Very recognizable as a Giugiaro design, actually and greenhouse kinda reminds me of these two (one better than the other - the other probably the work of Jr. ;-)
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It's kind of there, just very sharp-edged and preceded by an upward kink at the rear of the DLO lower edge, as used on some of their SUV's.

Is this the "show" version of the upcoming new 3-series? That particular area is still the only area covered up on the latest spy pics:
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I’ll be shocked if they walk away from the ‘ Hofmeister Kink’, but they’ve done stranger things I guess