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Matt

I'm loving the more radical concepts that have come back after a few years with near-production concepts being the norm.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/2...ept-makes-chris-bangle-look-drab/
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SpecB · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:53 pm Post subject:

That is...........err...........unusual. I don't necessarily dislike it but I am glad in a way it would never get through type approval with all those sharp bits.
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tali · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:18 pm Post subject:

Make a good company car for Wilkinson Sword employees .
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BeN · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:48 am Post subject:

WTF?!
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Blarno · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:29 am Post subject:

Design students really aren't right, are they?

LSD must be really cheap nowadays....
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Big TC · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:57 pm Post subject:

Skyhook · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:19 pm Post subject:

I think they look fantastic, especially the first.

Not based in reality at all, but as concepts... they look like they are moving standing still, almost mid transformation.

Great stuff.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:56 am Post subject:

That's obviously a scale model ...

Grampa · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:27 am Post subject:

So do the flaps open with the inertia of braking or do they open to assist with braking?

Nice to see radical concepts - the problem with seeing 'production' concepts is they look great, then you see the final thing and the best bits are always removed, or they dumb it down so much such as Iosis-Mondeo and it's a complete disappointment.
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Racing · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:54 am Post subject:

Has some car designer been looking at crested lizards while on mescaline?!?!

That's just barmy!
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ALF · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:44 pm Post subject:

Pointless tat. Given current (let alone future) pedestrian impact legislation such an idea has to be a total non-starter, surely - in which case why pursue it at all even for a project?

Parm · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject:

WTF indeed!
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Bob Sacramento · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:37 pm Post subject:

I'd have one - I bet no-one could ever clamp it!
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Grampa · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject:

Roadrunner · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject:

Maybe having flexible 'fish scales' as aerodynamic front wheel spats is an idea which can be persued. The rest is pointless and odd.

I cannot help but raise a smile at the lengths to which designers apparently have to go to create something more shocking than Mr Bangle's creations.
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DarthBalls · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:45 am Post subject:

Do you think it was inspired by the joke: What's the difference between BMWs and hedgehogs?...
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Skyhook · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:33 am Post subject:

I dunno; have you all forgotten what it was like to be 12? Don't they make you smile (in a good way) just a little bit?
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:18 am Post subject: