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Porsche '356' vision

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What do you all reckon to this then ..

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

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Think their vision must have been obscured during the design process...
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Agree it’s not as pretty as a bentayga Gary (:lol:) but I quite like it.
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I look pretty young but I'm just backdated yeah
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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 :)
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True dat.

I believe enzo ferrari called the Bentayga the most beautiful car in the world
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It's like a slightly less worse version of that Croatian 964 'restomod'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...

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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.

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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....
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