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What do you all reckon to this then ..

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_AU/2023 ... 31061.html

Think their vision must have been obscured during the design process...

Agree it’s not as pretty as a bentayga Gary (:lol:) but I quite like it.

sladey wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:40 am Agree it’s not as pretty as a bentayga Gary (:lol:) but I quite like it.

I mean obvs the Bentayga is the benchmark

True dat.

I believe enzo ferrari called the Bentayga the most beautiful car in the world

It's like a slightly less worse version of that Croatian 964 'restomod'

sladey wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:56 am True dat.

I believe enzo ferrari called the Bentayga the most beautiful car in the world

Don't think your quote is quite accurate. Substitute "car" with 'shed' and the quotation is correct.

looks like a Taycan Cross Turismo to me, slightly altered roofline. Don't look at that and think wow.

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To my eye this design lacks the visual (& physical: Cayman GT4 RS architecture) lightness that is 356

It looks like one of the many virtual artist's renderings that litter the automotive web-sites and epitimises the lack of design vision that channels European manufacturers into heritage-pimping and continuation models. It's concerning that the European system seems unable to nurture a Tesla (Apple or Google for that matter)
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Hugo 356 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:33 am -
To my eye this design lacks the visual (& physical: Cayman GT4 RS architecture) lightness that is 356

It looks like one of the many virtual artist's renderings that litter the automotive web-sites and epitimises the lack of design vision that channels European manufacturers into heritage-pimping and continuation models. It's concerning that the European system seems unable to nurture a Tesla (Apple or Google for that matter)
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I like the phrase "heritage pimping" and there is a good deal of that about in automotive design. However, you reference Apple: the chief designer has been for several decades a Brit Sir Jony Ive.

BILLY BEAN wrote:

Hugo 356 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:33 am -
To my eye this design lacks the visual (& physical: Cayman GT4 RS architecture) lightness that is 356

It looks like one of the many virtual artist's renderings that litter the automotive web-sites and epitimises the lack of design vision that channels European manufacturers into heritage-pimping and continuation models. It's concerning that the European system seems unable to nurture a Tesla (Apple or Google for that matter)
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I like the phrase "heritage pimping" and there is a good deal of that about in automotive design. However, you reference Apple: the chief designer has been for several decades a Brit Sir Jony Ive.

Not any more. Moved on in 2019 to start his own firm.

What is the point and value of these designs?
Are they Design Office (sorry, Studios) exercises to a 'free liberated' brief, or what?
Do they find value in gauging responses to such cars, and if looking good make them in small quantities at £2 million a pop and all sold before the magazines can pump them up?

Anyway, they all look the same to me.
You need to have a Big Ego to drive that down the street around my parts...of the world, assuming they are road legal of course.

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Europe has talent. No European IBM, Microsoft, intel, amazon, Facebook, Netflix, e-bay, paypal though. Early Tesla assembly Hethel, Norfolk before production moved across the Atlantic...

Yes the idea of 357 is a good one but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.
Too many "designers" out there that have learnt how to sketch and render but have no flare for style or elegance.

Karl

Looks like a tart up exercise on an Audi TT to me

I get very bored with seeing things like this. The design team clearly have a view they are putting forward but seem to be guided by marketing/accounting rather than passion. Not everything from back in the day was pretty or efficient, so why not look to see how they can actually be a little different....