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I don't like the headlights.... Anyone like them ?
Obnoxious car really. Big and ugly. The giant, horribly oversized and badly designed grille is the metaphor for the entire car. Not for me.
Ugly car... and 10 years too late with that powertrain ?
Lotus Emira in Nimbus Grey, perfect proportions, beautiful to look at (and check out the recent Harry's Garage videos).
And I do have a soft spot for the more affordable Ora Funky Cat. It does steal design elements from other cars, but the final product is easy to look at.
Can i post my electric lawn mower ? :))
Works great. :)>-
The Funky Cat looks better than the Lotus.
EV's rule 👍
And EV's suck...for now. I'm just waiting for Jaguar to electrify themselves. Then I'll change my narrative, for sure.
Yes, well, I was referring to their supposed new design shift and total electrification of the fleet ;)
And yes, as @007InAction said, that doesn't count, it's a bloody suv. And I hate suvs :) But I do understand their role in saving car brands from obliteration, even though recent numbers say they didn't do much for Jaguar.
Yes, SUVs aren't cars are they. They're... fish?
Yes, they are fish. A whale shark, that one you posted :) Not ugly, btw, by suv standards. One of the best looking, I'd say. Still, a sports utility vehicle. And, as such, fish.
And:
Still, I have hope. Loads of it.
The beautiful iPace? Yes it is a sleek-looking shark, I agree :)
I have this tendency to see car shapes as animals. I suppose car designers do too. And sharks win most of the time. Well, fish. E types, 250 swb or gto, d types, some Astons, all a bit sharky, IMO. Always love them. Even my less magnificent, but fun, Mx5-nd in dark grey seems a bit like a shark, I think. And your BMW does to, in a way, with those sort of gills on the sides. I can't wait to see what they come up with, design wise, with this new gen of Jags :)
Fish??? I protest!
lol. Just Zebras then ;) No zebrafishes in the automotive industry.
I'll go with the new Alfa. Yes, also a zebra, but still.
You must be about the last fan of Alfa Romeos around. I've always liked their looks, and I hope Stellantis have been doing something about quality for the last few years, but in most of the last decades their quality was atrocious and even worse than Fiat's, of which I can tell a story because my father (in the late sixties until the late seventies) bought four of them in a row because no other dealer would accept a used Fiat as a trade-in for a price worth mentioning.
OK, the car I use primarily (2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee) is also part of that group of companies now, but it basically stems from the times of Daimler Chrysler, is to a high degree identical with what is now a Mercedes GLE...and I would suppose that those workers and robots in Detroit (assembling things like the Italian diesel engine and the German ZF transmission and Continental tires) are at least less relaxed than those Italian workers of the sixties and seventies who apparently didn't give a shit about their product. In particular, stories about the workers assembling the Alfa Spider abounded in the 70s and 80s.
It's not about Alfa Romeo exactly, but I remember from the 70s a friend who was a lawyer and absolutely pissed about his law partner having bought a Lancia (Gamma, I think) as a business car, the costs of which he had to share. That thing let the rain through around the edges of its windshield and rusted in all places, and the company responded to complaints by saying that in their opinion, a four-year old car has been written off, and that was it. And Lancia is also part of the Fiat empire, like just about everything else in Italy.
I love the present MX-5 although I'm not ready to squeeze myself into it (had a 1992 MX-5 NA for 16 years, but this seems smaller!). And I like Fiat's take on the fake 124, for sentimental reasons. But of course an Alfa version, with a decent engine (and of course made in Japan, like the "124" revenant!) might be much more attractive.
The thing i don't like about the Emira is the bonnet with those 2 massive unnecessary ? "slits".