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Skyhook · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:25 pm Post subject:

One of the original BMW Mini proposals, the ACV 30 -

Edit : absolutely love this thread btw.

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Spyder · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject:

Brilliant thread.
My personal fave

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Skyhook · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

I don't know when this dates from, (er....could be '94) and it looks a bit choppy too -

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Matt · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject:

It was initially shown in pink at one of the motorshows in about 1994.
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Matt · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject:

This is great. Never seen it before.

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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject:

Here's some good ones - Pininfarina having a go at the Austin/Morris 1100/1300:

And the 1800 Land Crab:

kraftwerk · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject:

Exactly, but in 1968 ...

Spyder · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject:

Vauxhall SRV 1974

Another one of my faves

Not sure if it was a concept car but this takes me back

Wolfrace Sonic
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DaveGibson · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject:

I seem to recall that those Pininfarina Austin-Morris concepts were taken up by Citroen, after BL rejected them, to create what became the GS and CX.

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject:

Just imagine if BL had launched those in the early to mid 1970s ...

DaveGibson · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:

Here's another Austin-Rover that should have been:

The AR6 Metro replacement.

Big TC · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject:

DaveGibson · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject:

Big TC · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject:

Some lovely concepts from Chevrolet:

And I discovered this from Chrysler - hideous:

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BeN · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject:

D. · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject:

Blarno · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject:

I'm sure Dan will agree that the El Camino concept is fantastic!
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D. · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

D. · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject:

Giant · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject:

Surely no manufacturer has been as consistent as Renault with the quality of their concepts over the past 15 years or so. They have also managed to make concepts which appear to be irrelevant musings of the designers pencil but which also prove to show future design direction.

My all time favourite concept is also one of the most recent, I have never seen a car as beautiful and fascinating as the Mazda Furai, it's absolutely breath-taking (IMO!).

D. · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject:

Giant · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject:

Thanks Dan.

I saw the Furai at Goodwood in the Supercar paddock, sat a few cars down from 3 Veyrons. The Veyrons might as well have been Vectras parked so near to the Mazda, all day the crowd was two or three deep around it while the Veyrons were given very little attention.

The other concepts of the Nagare series are interesting but nowhere near as cohesive. It saiys in Autocar this week that the designer of the Furai has left Mazda to go to Tesla. Bad news for my hopes of a model range of mazdas based on it!

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject:

Yet more great stuff there - notably the Lotuses and that amazing pickup. And I find all the Nagare series brilliant.

Oddly enough, I'm entirely unmoved by the Audi Nuvolari - I actually prefer the A5.

D. · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject:

I was going to post the pick-up months ago, but thought I'd get the usual ribbing! It took me ages to track it down again and fits in this thread beautifully.

The Lotus Etna is the car that started off my passion for cars, it was on the cover of the first car magazine that I read and then subsequently stole from my old dentist!

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject:

Some more Renaults:

And the superb Saab Aero X:

D. · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject:

D. · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

BeN · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject:

Is that a Safrane Estate?

I like the Fluence. And also that Giugario Alfa thing.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject:

Bertone Birusa - based on the BMW Z8:

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject:

Corvette concepts - Indy:

Ramarro:

Moray:

marcg · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject:

Matt · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject:

I like the Trafic Deck Up. Very different, but well executed.
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kraftwerk · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:13 am Post subject:

Surprised there's been no mention of this... Remember the press soiling their strides over it at the time? Now I'm not so sure, but the interior still looks fairly special..

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D. · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject:

Buick Wildcat:

Cadillac Vayage:

Lamborghini Cala:

Chrysler Portofino:

Oldsmobile Aerotech:

Bertone Karisma:

BeN · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject:

Ah yes, the yellow ItalDesign Cala. Lovely.
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D. · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject:

I've seen it! I'm proud of that.

Colin · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject:

I think we need some captions for some of these, to help those of us who are not so well informed......

What is that Chevy Caprice like abomination?

D. · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject:

The Cadillac Voyage? The two door version was called the Solitare and was in the film Demolition Man with Silvester Stalone and Wesley Snipes.

Colin · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

Yes, that will be the one.

Thanks for the captions - now I know what I am looking at.

Skyhook · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject:

Hmmm ...

D. · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject:

That concept is from about 1952.

I don't know what the top one is though!

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject:

But the wing has had an influence long beyond its years. Didn't it have a gas turbine - I know they were all the rage in Detroit's concept cars of the period.

D. · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject:

I think it was the jet car.

Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

Never mind gas turbines, how about this:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656

D. · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject:

PR · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject:

Shades of Subaru SVX aside, how naff does that look?

The Esprit still looks good today, but that thing is very much 'of its time'.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:47 am Post subject:

You think? I reckon that looks far better than Peter Stevens' restyle.