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Those mustangs look nice.
Off to buy a lotto ticket!
I do seem to have taken streamlining onboard a bit - here's a design for a classroom device I'm just getting prototyped 🙂
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@willard - agree on the 427 but the 289 was pretty:
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errm, everyone knows that the AC Cobra was a British design based on the AC Ace and made in Thames Ditton, don't they?
find me an American designed vehicle (4 or 2 wheeled) that isn't a hideously gopping monstrosity
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Wasn't the DeLorean Oi'rish? Or just built there?
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add that one to the "british knowledge" immigration quiz
They can get it *really* right sometimes;
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R.E. DMC 12 I *think* the Styling was USA, and the [s]screwup [/s] manufacturing was Ireland-based
they just look like balloons
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Shall we discuss Harley Davidson? Surely the worlds greatest surviving example of selling stone age, hideously ugly pig-iron to gullible half-wits for laughable sums of money?
No more antiquated than a Triumph, or many other motorbikes for that matter.
@wasnotwas - if we took into account all the things that were created/conceived of/designed here, then exploited to huge commercial gain elsewhere, the list would be hooooooge!
Please, someone tell me this wasn't thought of overe here....
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[i] if we took into account all the things that were created/conceived of/designed here, then exploited to huge commercial gain elsewhere, the list would be hooooooge![/i]
that's true but I was referring specifically to the AC because it was being touted as a good 'American design' when it really isn't in any shape or form an American design.
No more antiquated than a Triumph, or many other motorbikes for that matter.
Are you seriously suggesting that Harley Davidsons are in the same bracket as a modern Japanese superbike. I know they cost about the same. In fact the Harley will be more expensive. And they both have 2 wheels. But I think the similarity ends there
You can have this agricultural monstrosity for a snip af £16 grand
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or this for 4 grand less
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Anyone who even has to think about that for more than a millisecond needs their bumps feeling
Well, it could be a styling choice.
I was genuinely shocked to be told by a co-worker RE [i]new[/i] cars "I don't care about anything other than the styling. It can be shit quality as long as it looks cool".
Those sorts are out there!
The Americans are designing some good looking cars at the moment
eg. http://www.cadillac.com/2013-cts-luxury-coupe.html
I drove a SRX last time. It was pretty good looking if you like SUVs
Out there tomorrow to the US - I'll keep my eyes open for good looking cars.
Holy crap that Cadillac is vomitacious.
That looks like its been designed by a teenage boy, in between masturbation sessions, having been up all night on his playstation, then rendered in a primitive 3D package. Its absolutely hideous!
Yeah, I've never liked it, though on Jalopnik they get quite the wide-on for it.
@binners in the same vein you can have this throwback for £26k:
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We can't get too smug, this
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and it's Nissan brethren are designed in London.
Kill me now.
Thing is, its ok to take your styling tips off something from a by-gone era, if that era produced a true design classic.
But Harley Davidsons have always looked like an assortment of left over scafolding poles carelessly welded around an engine sourced from an old industrial pump. And in line with every other American automotive product, handle like a fully laden supertanker
Say what you like about the exterior of that Bentley, but I think the interior is quite something...
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I stand corrected, DeLorean himself was 'merken, the car was designed by Guigiaro in italy ( 😯 ), then built in the Emerald Isle.
So there you go.
rogerthecat - throw it back even further, you can get a new one of these:
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Stoner, keepin' it [s]real[/s] local
oops I was rong too 😉
That Harley Vs R1 decision has caused quite a bit of discussion in the office, with a pretty even split between people. Personally, I'd go for the R1, but some people think the Harley would be cooler.
What I want to know though is when someone is going to build a bike as awesome as either a Tron Lightcycle, or Akira's motorbike.
A lightcycle you say?
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Or the bikes in Bloodrunners 😆
I think the correct answer is **** the Yamaha and the Harley!! I want this!!! 😀
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Which, somewhat unbelievably, you'd still get four grand change from, as opposed to the 2 wheeled American tractor! 😯
Binners you do talk some automotive crap! It's obvious you hate American cars/bikes but to say they all handle like tankers is very ignorant. I could take you out in my friends 2012 vet and take you around corners so fast in the thing you would s*** yourself. Remember most of these cars were designed for totally different roads to ours and its only lately they have been trying to sell competitively in our market and even then not strongly.
Do you mind?! I try not to limit it to just automotive! 😉
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@stoner - yup, I know a few Morgan owners, one of whom races a beetle back in historic classes - barking mad. One of the new ones came through our village last week and it sounded great. I have driven a JZR which is a CX500 powered copy - bloody scary thing TBH.
Now this 3 wheeler intrigues me:
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[i]if we took into account all the things that were created/conceived of/designed here, then exploited to huge commercial gain elsewhere, the list would be hooooooge![/i]
Like riding bikes offroad? 😉
