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The Low Drag and the Round Door Rolls are stunning.
Overall look of an aircraft, as it was heavily influenced by post war aircraft designs, just doesn’t work in my mind, it’s a car for gawds sake!
Hmm, I would suggest it was influenced more by the C Type and D Type.
Hmm, I would suggest it was influenced more by the C Type and D Type.
Like this one, perhaps...
These two are, in my opinion, pretty good looking too
Lolz at STW loving that thing in the OP and in the same breath slating the e-type 😂 explains the N+1 watch thread....
Lolz at STW loving that thing in the OP and in the same breath slating the e-type
I never went for the folded-paper school of auto design, that prevailed through the 70’s through into the 90’s, it’s all in the curves, baby! The OP’s post fits into that, along with various TVR’s, Lotus, etc.
That said, as I mentioned about the E-Type, I always thought those arches needed fatter tyres to fill them out, but that didn’t happen until the V12, which was a bloated mistake.
Eagle have it right with their take on the car.
Look at the 250GTO above, it’s very close to the E-Type in its styling, just a shorter nose because the engine was a bit more compact than the straight six, plus it didn’t have a one-piece front end.
Even the 4C above has a hint of the hunched hind-quarters.
Gandini`s later design the Khamsin is a much nicer design .
Look here
Car SOS did an Espada recently. Probably still on catch up.
I saw the Alfa 8C at Wilton house show and was a bit disappointed. Looked amazing from some angles but disproportionate from others. It was as if someone was stretching and shrinking the nose as you walked around it. Kind of hard to explain but I was sad as I wanted it to be perfect
Looked amazing from some angles but disproportionate from others. It was as if someone was stretching and shrinking the nose as you walked around it.
I had a girlfriend like that, best viewed from front on or from behind rather than from the side. Nothing a few beers couldn't fix though.
The Espada is lovely, I think it's 'done it's time now'. Designs like that tend to be so radical when they're new some people just don't like them, then there's a long period when they just look dated because shock factor is gone and finally a lot of the 'baggage' is over and you can see it for what it is. Does that make sense to anyone but me?
I'm glad to read I'm not alone in thinking the old "E-Type is the best looking car eva" thing isn't true.
I've never liked them, the track is too narrow, my guess is that they widened the body to try to make it more proportional with the length of the thing and never managed to widen the chassis legs.
"Car SOS did an Espada recently. Probably still on catch up."
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I love a good wedge, Khamsin, Pantera, LP400, Esprit, bring em on.
My issue with E types is some of them look horrific (steep windscreen etc) and they are more than a little clichéd in the classic car world.
For me the original E-Type had issues around the wheelarch/wheel area so the Eagle addresses that problem but the important thing to bear in mind is the sort of car it replaced - it was a huge step forward in design/performance at a relatively low cost. And if it wasn't for the factory fire we might have only ended up with the XKSS.
The Espada is one of those cars that works from certain angles - maybe too much height in the glass and a similar wheelarch/wheel issue at the rear.
The Car SOS episode is worth watching if only to find out why the engine is locked up 🙂
The Espada is beautiful! For a 4 seater GT it is exceptionally so. Making a 4 seater beautiful is relatively tricky. Even today designers struggle with it. Just about everything else people are comparing it with are 2 seater sports cars, which are bloody easy to make purposeful, pretty, fast looking, even beautiful...
It's a bit mingin'
A Scimitar on steroids.
It looked better with 4 doors
So - people that love the Espada, but don't like the E-Type, what about a Shelby Cobra?
It looked better with 4 doors
Christ no. It looks like that awful Lagonda shooting brake.
Cobra is ok, would define it as muscular
love that cobra, especially with those tyres with the white writing on the sidewalls (not keen on the blue stripe on them though)
It looked better with 4 doors
It really didn't...