One car, to sum up all cars, to show an alien.
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Ford Focus Estate, I would imagine is fairly "typical" in terms of design and packaging.
I think if I was showing an alien then I'd want to represent the "most common" traits of a car, so some super car won't do that. The most common car will be something very common and pretty boring to a petrol head. The focus is medium sized, with medium engines. I also ripped off the OP's idea of going for an estate, as it kind of illustrates how we might have bigger one for carrying more stuff or passengers and represents vans in some ways too. But ignoring the huge boot the rest of the car is very normal, medium car stuff IMO.
I think if I was showing an alien then I'd want to represent the "most common" traits of a car, so some super car won't do that. The most common car will be something very common and pretty boring to a petrol head. The focus is medium sized, with medium engines. I also ripped off the OP's idea of going for an estate, as it kind of illustrates how we might have bigger one for carrying more stuff or passengers and represents vans in some ways too. But ignoring the huge boot the rest of the car is very normal, medium car stuff IMO.
Fantuzzi said:
M3 saloon perhaps. V8.
Looks normal, so mr Zog wont think all cars have splitters and rear wwings, you could eplain how it works as a car eg a mode of transport, boot, rear seats ect. Yet eplain the idea of driving as a pleasure due to V8 driftyness.
Whats the 0-60 of a T-Rex?
They don't do 60...Looks normal, so mr Zog wont think all cars have splitters and rear wwings, you could eplain how it works as a car eg a mode of transport, boot, rear seats ect. Yet eplain the idea of driving as a pleasure due to V8 driftyness.
Whats the 0-60 of a T-Rex?
Since aliens may not be au fait with electronics, I would use a car that was entirely mechanical so an alien could see that petrol was pumped mechanically into a carburettor and then into cylinders to mix with air. The throttle and manual steering would be obvious and easy to work out as would the suspension so i would avoid anything clever there.
I would show them an Alfasud Sprint as that also shows good mainstream aesthetic appreciation.
I would show them an Alfasud Sprint as that also shows good mainstream aesthetic appreciation.
KrazyIvan said:
ETA : Hang on a second, they user dinosaurs for travel, but have traversed the vastness of space, are you familiar with the old robot saying "Does not compute" 
Duh the aliens clearly use flying dinosaurs for exampleEdited by KrazyIvan on Friday 24th August 10:03
Pterosaur - wing spans up to around 6m so the equivalent of say a MX5 as possibly only suitable for two aliens and minor luggage.
Quetzalcoatlus - wing spans up to 16m and possibly the largest flying creature, effectively a MPV
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