martinfan5 Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 I agree with Harry, I have never cared for or took concpet cars seriously, very few concepts ever get built or the ones that do look very different from the concept design. Its called a concpet car for a reason after all.
Harry P. Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 I am "only" 13. I do get to drive the cars around the house though. Wow, my parents were a lot stricter than yours. They never let me drive a car indoors...
Eshaver Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Scale-master, I wouldn't consider buying one used years from now either . I had a 69 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with more personality in the Cowl area than both these rides had all over ! Ed Shaver
martinfan5 Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) Wow, my parents were a lot stricter than yours. They never let me drive a car indoors... So the automobile was invented when you were a kid Harry :lol: :lol: Edited January 11, 2012 by martinfan5
SuperStockAndy Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Wow, my parents were a lot stricter than yours. They never let me drive a car indoors... I hope you're kidding
espo Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 They both look better than what Chevrolet offers today. Peter's silver photo shop looks better than the Camaro of today. I personaly owned a 1969 Camaro for 18 years. Sold it in 1995 to get a new Chevrolet pick-up. When Chevrolet was teasing us with the new Camaro prototypes I was hopping I could get a new one. Still can't get worked up over the new Camaro's. They are nice and all, but not 30k+ nice.
Jon Cole Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) Re: Tru140- I don't see the A pillar being a problem at all. Picture them from the drivers seat... they protude forward, not left or right. Seeing what is behind you, now that may be a problem. Hope rear-facing cameras are in the plan. Edited January 11, 2012 by Jon Cole
henry57 Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 The white one looks a lot like the mitsubishi eclipse
Scale-Master Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Well, you have Chuck Jordan Sr. on the design staff of GM, and his son designing for Mazda. No surprise the last generation RX-7 and the C5 Corvette look like siblings, as well as the aforementioned Chevy SS Concept and Mazda RX-8...
Skydime Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) its more like all the manufacturers are searching for thier lost identities and stealing each others styling in the process There is a truthful irony somewhere in that statement. Sadly, they will never find their identities while stealing from one another. Here is something I find interesting and brings, to my mind, the Chevelles from 1969 and 1970. Agressive and bold looking. I would love to have that if it ever came out. It just screams, "You know I'm gonna outrun you, right?" Edited January 11, 2012 by Skydime
Casey Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 the red Chevy above i think is interesting. it kind of reminds me of a 2-door sedan The "formal" roof is what caught my eye when I first saw it, but everything from the greenhouse down is very unexciting, which seems odd for a concept/show car. I don't see much of a market for a small RWD car in GM's stable, though.
Kaleb Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 It's all political propaganda, cars designed by a team of 5 people coming up with new designs to get people arguing over what cars that well never come out, and if they did we wouldn't be able to buy them. Just kidding but it is amusing to see all the different "brands" of cars start to all look the same. Like the prius it looks like a shrunken astek.
fumi Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 I find it interesting that some people always say "new cars all look the same and I am not able to tell them apart". I have no problem recognizing most cars made after the 70's. However cars made in the 60's and before all looked the same to me, especially those from GM. Remove the grilles from them and they are practically the same car. I don't think it has much to do with companies copying each other for car designs nowadays; it was always the case. It has more to do with nostalgia, and the cars people grew up with.
Harry P. Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 I have no problem recognizing most cars made after the 70's. However cars made in the 60's and before all looked the same to me, especially those from GM. Remove the grilles from them and they are practically the same car. In many cases they were more than "practically" the same car... they were totally the same car (minus minor trim variations). GM was the king of "badge engineering." One of these cars is a '78 Chevy Impala, the other a '78 Pontiac Bonneville.
Dr. Cranky Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 No matter how you slice it, all these cars look the same. They are designed by committees and again safety has won over style and or flair, so it goes. I've never again bought a brand new car since 1980 when I owned a Mustang, and that was it. I learned my lesson the hard way. In four years my Mustang went from being all together to coming apart. I'd find screws on the carpet and wondered where they'd come from, etc . . . In 2004, I bought a motorcycle and never looked back!
Junkman Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) They both look better than what Chevrolet offers today. Yeah, it would take quite some doing to come up with something that looks worse. Still, Opel managed. Edited January 12, 2012 by Junkman
Chuck Most Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 I find it interesting that some people always say "new cars all look the same and I am not able to tell them apart". I have no problem recognizing most cars made after the 70's. However cars made in the 60's and before all looked the same to me, especially those from GM. Remove the grilles from them and they are practically the same car. I don't think it has much to do with companies copying each other for car designs nowadays; it was always the case. It has more to do with nostalgia, and the cars people grew up with. Really, cars from ANY given period tend to resemble each other. Look at a Model T... then look at its competition. They all looked pretty much alike. Same as today, more or less. There are always exceptions, of course, but when somebody adopts styling/engineering/packaging that works, sooner or later the competition is going to follow suit.
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