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But to me these are much more coherent and quality designs than the blobby nothingness of the Teslas, although neither of the Lotus EVs so far are up there with the gorgeous Emira.
I love the Emira. Classic Lotus for sure, and a clear indication they still have something up their sleeve. Hopefully it translates to the EV lineup. In a few years time we'll have solid state battery technology, as well as structural battery elements in the body potentially, that could open up some lightweighting and interesting structural opportunities for design that I think Lotus would be smart, and a natural choice, to pioneer.
Volkswagen ID. X Performance Concept
I've seen the ID.7 in person. It's a Volkswagen... very boring. The ID.X version is more interesting but likely won't make it to production, or if it does, not the U.S., but we'll see. The old VW CC sedan and the Arteon look better and more future-forward imo.
That ID7 gives blandness and beeing average a whole new meaning. There's absolutely NOTHING that gives it character. An art in itself.
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/retro/aston-db5-sets-pulses-racing-photo-shoot-celebrate-60th-birthday
But the cars of the nineties and 2000s are about as diverse as the last 6 or 7 generations of Audi's models, i.e., not at all. You can't even tell which type appears in your rear view mirror intending to overtake you.
I think there's more difference between the DB9 and 11 than there's ever bin in Porsche history:
Not to mention their 1-77, valkyrie and whatnot. And earlier, of course, the V8 vantage from the seventies onward.
Personally I think the DB9 is the best-looking car they ever came up with, even trumping the DB2/4, 5 and 6.
The DBS Suerleggera from NNTD isn't even that good looking IMO.
The real problem lies in the ever returning of the DB5. I didn't mind it beeing Bond's personal car, but even then we shouldn't see it that often, and it should've been treated with a bit more care. Why blow it up in SF, then have it returned in NTTD? I understand the want of NTTD encapsulating all earlier Bond-films, but the V8 would've done the job just as nicely.
I can relate to your critique of Porsche, but then I somehow was never enthused by Porsches even sixty years ago. Just being sort of appreciative of them producing a line of cars of consecutive looks, while neither desiring nor having the money to spare to buy one of them (if I had, I probably wouldn't do it anyway. There's better things to spend one's money on).
But AM is really the same lately, and not much different from Porsche (or, for that matter) Audi in that regard.
And I still think that your images prove that. They still look much the same. Not bad at all, but the same.
Which one is this?
So it's not really a new phenomenon that Aston models look like each other and the shape evolves from one to the next.
Yes, I guess that's quite normal...it's just that today they all pretend to show all the testoterone that they claim to extract from their possible purchasers. And I hate that. Just like I hate everything coming from Lamborghini, basically since the Miura. A sports car, for me, is a light and nimble vehicle, ideally a convertible, that you can enjoy driving in your free time. And at a price affordable for the (somewhat more affluent) average citizen, and not just for millionaires. Or make that billionaires these days.
Thing is that AM have jumped on the bandwagon of making cars as aggressively-looking as possible, and while certain other German manufacturers are more guilty of this, AM does it too.
For me the last real AM, if I'm permitted to call it that, was the DB7, or at the very least DAD's Vanquish. That combination of elegance and sportiness is what made them so special, but elegance I'm afraid has been lost on many car manufacturers these days.
SS v S...............
Well, Astons are supposed to be GT's, not sports cars. But cars you can drive great lengths in, taking you across countries at a decent pace. So they usually are a bit heavier. They're not the same class a Lambo's or Lotuses. Frerrari confuses it all by making both GT's an sportscars. And AM now has done the same with the Valkiry, 1-77 and the like. Personally, I don't like that direction. Form me the DB9 is the ultimate AM. Came across a DB12 yesterday (driving the opposite direction) and that Grille is huge, like a whaleshark. To my mind that is a completely different impression.
Sure, they still look similar, as they all are front-engined GT's from AM. But so is a Ferrari Roma.
I do understand why you think they're very similar, but that's just the design language and subject I think.
This is also recent Aston (ok, Lagonda)
Are these cars rubbish compared to the Rimac Nevera ?
The Rimac Nevera seems so poised and refined compared to the petrol "rivals"