Asymmetrical Car Designs

[Alex]

[DickyC]

MarshPhantom said:

On the new Discovery they've lost the asymmetry. Can't think why they'd give up such a well established styling cue.

[swisstoni]

DickyC said:

MarshPhantom said:

On the new Discovery they've lost the asymmetry. Can't think why they'd give up such a well established styling cue.

I hadn't noticed that that had gone. Obviously is was there in the first place to allow a bit more visibility around a rear mounted wheel - is it because they have found room to stow the spare underneath?
They'll probably get all nostalgic in a few years and bring it back.

[RizzoTheRat]

Clearly there's a lot more asymmetry these days than there used to be

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[Johnny 89]

swisstoni said:

DickyC said:

MarshPhantom said:

On the new Discovery they've lost the asymmetry. Can't think why they'd give up such a well established styling cue.

I hadn't noticed that that had gone. Obviously is was there in the first place to allow a bit more visibility around a rear mounted wheel - is it because they have found room to stow the spare underneath?
They'll probably get all nostalgic in a few years and bring it back.

Only thing is, that's not the new Discovery. That's the Discovery Sport.. A replacement for the Freelander.. The Discovery 4 still has the same rear window

[DickyC]

Ah. I was led astray by the Discovery badge.

[Jimmy Recard]

Cheapskate said:

And that 243 would be the ideal car for pranks/pulling a bank job with conflicting witness statements.

I don't think it'd be brilliant for the bank job because if you were linked in any other way, the witnesses from one side of the road and the witnesses from the other adamantly saying opposing statements about the number of doors could prove it was your car!

Also, if you're unlucky and one witness identifies it as a Volvo 243, they won't have to track down many 243 owners before they get to you whereas if it's just "black Vauxhall Vectra" or "silver Ford Mondeo" there are countless possible suspects!

[Halmyre]

[carl_w]

Seen a few of these and always thought it looked like a bit of trim had fallen off



Plus there are always the Mallock hillclimb cars where the driver sits alongside the engine:

Edited by carl_w on Sunday 29th November 18:31

[ajprice]

Along with the 2 posts above, the MEV Atomic kit car. Yamaha R1 engine instead of a passenger.

[M4cruiser]

loudlashadjuster said:

I've often thought that Citroen should go back to their old badge placement.

These had an offset badge too, but they changed it for the facelift after 18 months:-

[JackP1]

All my good answers taken, this is the only other one i could think of

[carl_w]

Struggling to find a decent pic but if we're going down the air vent route then the classic Saab 900 was also asymmetric.

[ajprice]

JackP1 said:

All my good answers taken, this is the only other one i could think of

As well as the bonnet vent on one side, the back edge of the bonnet was stepped, so they couldn't reverse the wipers for RHD. LHD and RHD cars all had LHD wipers, the RHD drivers side wiper was on a cam type setup to sweep further into the corner of the windscreen, similar to the system that Mercedes had on their cars with the single wiper.

[M4cruiser]

Whilst on vents, I believe some Mercedes models had a kind of vent grille cut into the front wing on one side only, but I can't find a picture.

[Jimmy Recard]

M4cruiser said:

Whilst on vents, I believe some Mercedes models had a kind of vent grille cut into the front wing on one side only, but I can't find a picture.

Turbo diesel W124 E-Class.

[marmitemania]

Jimmy Recard said:

M4cruiser said:

Whilst on vents, I believe some Mercedes models had a kind of vent grille cut into the front wing on one side only, but I can't find a picture.

Turbo diesel W124 E-Class.

The Americans do have some very strange headlight configurations for European cars.

[OvalOwl]

M4cruiser said:

Whilst on vents, I believe some Mercedes models had a kind of vent grille cut into the front wing on one side only, but I can't find a picture.

Diesel W124 - also with mirror asymmetry.

[marmitemania]

OvalOwl said:

M4cruiser said:

Whilst on vents, I believe some Mercedes models had a kind of vent grille cut into the front wing on one side only, but I can't find a picture.

Diesel W124

That's better and a much better bonnet fit to.

[mph1977]

marmitemania said:

The Americans do have some very strange headlight configurations for European cars.

gbecasue they mandated sealed beams for a good number of years after the rest of the world had moved onto styled headlights and halogen bulbs