Awkward-looking coupes
Discussion
stewjohnst said:
Also, I know its bending the rules as it isn't a coupe per se but I was following a Passat CC the other day and from some angles the misalignment of front and rear door handles just looks totally weird to my eyes.
They both sit an equal distance below the crease in the side bodywork, what am i missing?stewjohnst said:
ZesPak said:
It does doesn't it, the 3/4 panels in the rear seem like they mismatch. There's one with his ass sticking out behind the driveway I see everyday, and too often I think: ooh, he had an accident.
It's this mess of lines:
It's this mess of lines:
Vitorio said:
They both sit an equal distance below the crease in the side bodywork, what am i missing?
And therein lies an intrinsic difference between German and - say - Italian design. It may measure perfectly, on paper be bang on yet to the eye it just doesn't look right.I like the Pishat CC but there was something about it that irked. That could well be it....
HugoFastmann said:
My awkward coupehatch E46. Not a true coupe. Not a true hatchback.
Why don't you think yours is a hatchback?
Would you regard the Astra below it as a hatchback?
stewjohnst said:
Also, I know its bending the rules as it isn't a coupe per se but I was following a Passat CC the other day and from some angles the misalignment of front and rear door handles just looks totally weird to my eyes.
Not just misaligned but to my eyes at least surely they should be above the swage line?s m said:
Never noticed it before, but on my phone they were hard to distingiush from that angle! Edit: The black does hide some of the finer detail though.I've always found the real coupe variants of both to be good looking cars though (although around here the BMW is deffo owned by the "wrong" crowd):
Both examples of well-proportioned coupes imho. That BMW needs to get it's suspension fixed though.
Edited by ZesPak on Friday 28th April 07:54
s m said:
Because when I think of a hatch back I don't think of a boot lid - that's what coupes and saloons have.Hatchback:
Coupe:
And yes that Astra is another blurred lines hatchback.
To me a coupe is a 2-door body shape with a boot lid - don't get me started on this 4-door Gran Coupe thing that ze Germans are doing these days - and a hatchback has a big back door without a boot lid.
HugoFastmann said:
To me a coupe is a 2-door body shape with a boot lid - don't get me started on this 4-door Gran Coupe thing that ze Germans are doing these days - and a hatchback has a big back door without a boot lid.
I think it's very hard to define it like that.That would mean, for example, this isn't a coupe:
HugoFastmann said:
s m said:
Because when I think of a hatch back I don't think of a boot lid - that's what coupes and saloons have.Hatchback:
Coupe:
And yes that Astra is another blurred lines hatchback.
To me a coupe is a 2-door body shape with a boot lid - don't get me started on this 4-door Gran Coupe thing that ze Germans are doing these days - and a hatchback has a big back door without a boot lid.
Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff