Asymmetrical Car Designs

Asymmetrical Car Designs

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Eighteeteewhy

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7,259 posts

167 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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They split opinions, and annoy OCDers

From classics..



To more modern...




Any more?


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MarshPhantom

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136 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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marmitemania

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141 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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This car sprang to mind straight away. Do you know why?

marksx

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189 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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MarshPhantom

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136 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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balls-out

3,586 posts

230 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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marmitemania said:


This car sprang to mind straight away. Do you know why?
Wheelbase different on either side?

Amc pacer had driver and passenger doors a different size

marmitemania

1,566 posts

141 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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balls-out said:
marmitemania said:


This car sprang to mind straight away. Do you know why?
Wheelbase different on either side?

Yep!

Amc pacer had driver and passenger doors a different size

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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ETA damn, too slow!

swisstoni

16,855 posts

278 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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I believe, even up until the 90s, it was not uncommon for cars to be ever so slightly asymmetrical by accident rather than design.

marmitemania

1,566 posts

141 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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lightthefuse

426 posts

171 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Hyundai Veloster? That only has a rear door on one side if memory serves. ETA: already posted!

I have asymmetrical OCD with cars, I admit, but don't mind the OP Jag one bit! Or the Disco for that matter.

Smiler.

11,752 posts

229 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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What was that weird Renault thing from the 70s (not the 4 & I appreciate it could describe half their then range).

It had round headlights iirc.

robinessex

11,046 posts

180 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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I've often wondered how cars would have developed it cars had been consistant over the world re the steering wheel (side) location.

996TT02

3,308 posts

139 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Eighteeteewhy said:
Any more?

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All of them. Except the Mclaren F1 and the Ariel Atom.

You know why...

QuartzDad

2,230 posts

121 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

178 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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I thought of several older Renaults with the wheelbase different side to side

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Jimmy Recard said:
I thought of several older Renaults with the wheelbase different side to side
iirc it;s rear suspension torsion bars positioned behind on behind another but with equal length arms to the hubs ... meaning the hub of the wheel on the rearmost torsion bar is severla inches further back than the other

Monkeylegend

26,227 posts

230 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Unless your car has 2 steering wheels, one in front of each front seat, and two sets of pedals, doesn't that make it asymmetrical?

JagerT

455 posts

106 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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996TT02 said:
All of them. Except the Mclaren F1 and the Ariel Atom.

You know why...
That's what I thought

0a

23,879 posts

193 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Monkeylegend said:
Unless your car has 2 steering wheels, one in front of each front seat, and two sets of pedals, doesn't that make it asymmetrical?
Or a central driving position smile