Bring back cars with chrome grills and curves

Bring back cars with chrome grills and curves

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HertsBiker

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6,313 posts

272 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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...please! I'm so bored with modern design. Anyone else with me?

bristolracer

5,542 posts

150 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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Yes i agree

Some car makers seem hell bent on making their entire range look the same, for some you can also see the genetic relationships too eg ford/volvo/mazda.

people may mock the Nissan Juke but at least they dared to be different.

Quhet

2,427 posts

147 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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I think we'd all had enough of Rover 75s, PT cruisers and S Types 10 years ago....

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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HertsBiker said:
...please! I'm so bored with modern design. Anyone else with me?
Along what lines where you thinking? The last few cars that had these design traits are not really seen now as great designs

zeduffman

4,056 posts

152 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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kambites

67,583 posts

222 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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MonkeyMatt said:
HertsBiker said:
...please! I'm so bored with modern design. Anyone else with me?
Along what lines where you thinking? The last few cars that had these design traits are not really seen now as great designs
I'd love to see a mainstream sports car in the vein of the MX5 styled along 60s lines - MGB/Spitfire sort of thing. I guess you couldn't get away with chrome bumpers these days, though.

skeeterm5

3,356 posts

189 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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My Cortina has chrome bumpers smile

S

kambites

67,583 posts

222 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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skeeterm5 said:
My Cortina has chrome bumpers smile

S
So does my MG.

Well they were chrome once, they're mostly rust now.

tbc

3,017 posts

176 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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curves?

chrome?

get a good X-type and stick a facelift grill on it

http://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/attachments/xj-x...




Edited by tbc on Thursday 3rd April 19:27

Impasse

15,099 posts

242 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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MonkeyMatt said:
Along what lines where you thinking? The last few cars that had these design traits are not really seen now as great designs

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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Impasse said:
MonkeyMatt said:
Along what lines where you thinking? The last few cars that had these design traits are not really seen now as great designs
I'm not quite sure this is what the OP is thinking of

Stu R

21,410 posts

216 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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Move to the US. There's chrome festooned tat everywhere.

Fill your boots... http://www.buick.com/

kiteless

11,713 posts

205 months

Thursday 3rd April 2014
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The Veyron has a chrome grille and a curvy body scratchchin

Totally by coincidence, I was reading an old issue of Classic Car magazine this lunchtime. The special feature was Bentley Continentals like this:



lick

HertsBiker

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6,313 posts

272 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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I meant cars where the bonnet and wings were interesting 3d sculptures. Where grills looked bling, before bling was in. Where the roof wasn't super small, pin headed. And where pillars are slim.

VBRJ

6,049 posts

178 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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joebongo

1,516 posts

176 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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Mercs. Fill your boots apart from the bumpers.

PlayersNo6

1,102 posts

157 months

Friday 4th April 2014
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I'm a fan :