car design thread

The rear 3/4 view and the nose have a lot of Aston going on. I don't see any Daytona. To me it is just a little more than a generic coupe. Also, the sketches do not come across as the same car. the rear 3/4 looks like a much bigger car. The frontish side view is smaller, lighter, and much more attractive/interesting than the rear 3/4. But from the A-pillar forward, generic.

 

You could have stopped with 'does that look like an Aston Martin'

 

Then there's this......
Can this be real? Jerry ( Anunakki) Image Unavailable, Please Login posted it on another site, and at first I thought it was a joke.

 

What dat?

Did the Gas Monkeys just customize a 2020 Supra?

 

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Apparently, it's a Ginetta:

https://www.ginetta.com/05-03-2019​

All the best,
Andrew.

 

I believe we will need to revoke his/their 'styling license'!

 

Its..its so beautiful

 

old and new with similar curves >

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https://www.madgallery.net/geneva/en/creators/frederic-muller

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These remind me of when Mad Magazine went into the automotive design business and invented the world's tallest hybrid car…
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Funny, the first car that came to mind looking at the top image was the late 60s Opel GT...
What say you John M?

 

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There's certainly some resemblance in the side profile, but there are other cars that have used that same form vocabulary as well Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

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Could car design disappear in the autonomous future?

 

John, what are you thoughts on the opel GT. I have always had a soft spot for these. Seem like they have never got the love...

 

Back when they were out, I became obsessed with them. I came very close to buying one in the late ‘70’s. They looked like a 4/5 scale Corvette. Then my son was born, Grad School beckoned and we couldn’t afford a ‘toy’ for me. So it never happened.
As a design statement, I thought they were pretty cool. Performance wise.........not so much.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

 

Yep, the 4 seater Opel Manta 2 door hardtop ran circles around it, even out cornered the GT.

 

Y'all just burst my bubble.

 

An academic put a paper together about 'automotive styling'.
https://www.academia.edu/25500955/AUTOMOTIVE_DYNAMICS_and_DESIGN_STYLING?fbclid=IwAR3foG58cPiBSVHUoJHPPTwb5_qK3jSp22CXTmniRKajI9fKfnZzmKgYMZE

 

Interesting that the "sail panels" roof came out on GM intermediates in 1966 and the Charger in 1968, so close together.

Lots of interesting reading after the subject article on key designers and the Fisher Body Craftsman Guild contests.

 

a thin inch-thick band of rubber around thirty inch wheels. what rubbish

 

That's just the sketch. Everyone 'cheats' the sketches.
The actual car may vary....

 

Some very cool historical design artwork
http://www.deansgarage.com/2019/studio-art-found-online/

 

^^^ I especially loved this one:
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