RE: Geneva Oddballs: Weird And Wonderful Or Just Weird
Discussion
About time a car company offers a 7.62mm gatling gun and mine detector as options! It was the only thing keeping me from buying a M-B G55.
Also, Astro Bionix Thor is quite possibly the best car name ever! Sounds like a robot Norwegian pornstar from the future!
This is appalling, however:
Also, Astro Bionix Thor is quite possibly the best car name ever! Sounds like a robot Norwegian pornstar from the future!
This is appalling, however:
I've been lurking around here for a long time, but I just had to register to set you straight regarding Giuseppe Fornasari's cars. Before you discredit him for displaying something that wasn't to your liking, maybe you should have taken your time to talk to him first? I did, for about an hour on Tuesday, and it was incredibly entertaining.
The Tender on display (the boat-like creation with missing rear side windows) is his own personal car, whose chassis actually has done 300,000 kms since new. It was never intended to be on the stand, but the customer who had originally agreed to take delivery of his brand-new car after the show changed his mind in the last minute because his daughter was getting married. Rather than leaving a big empty space on the stand, Mr. Fornasari decided to put his own car there. That's the explanation, and I think it's a good one.
Now, I have no problem understanding that his designs divide opinion, but he doesn't deserve to be ridiculed for the quality on his cars. To see what standards his brand-new production cars live up to, you just had to take one look through the window of the RR99 (the huge light-blue SUV). Not many other cars from equally small companies could match the finish of that interior.
The Tender on display (the boat-like creation with missing rear side windows) is his own personal car, whose chassis actually has done 300,000 kms since new. It was never intended to be on the stand, but the customer who had originally agreed to take delivery of his brand-new car after the show changed his mind in the last minute because his daughter was getting married. Rather than leaving a big empty space on the stand, Mr. Fornasari decided to put his own car there. That's the explanation, and I think it's a good one.
Now, I have no problem understanding that his designs divide opinion, but he doesn't deserve to be ridiculed for the quality on his cars. To see what standards his brand-new production cars live up to, you just had to take one look through the window of the RR99 (the huge light-blue SUV). Not many other cars from equally small companies could match the finish of that interior.
lago said:
I've been lurking around here for a long time, but I just had to register to set you straight regarding Giuseppe Fornasari's cars. Before you discredit him for displaying something that wasn't to your liking, maybe you should have taken your time to talk to him first? I did, for about an hour on Tuesday, and it was incredibly entertaining.
The Tender on display (the boat-like creation with missing rear side windows) is his own personal car, whose chassis actually has done 300,000 kms since new. It was never intended to be on the stand, but the customer who had originally agreed to take delivery of his brand-new car after the show changed his mind in the last minute because his daughter was getting married. Rather than leaving a big empty space on the stand, Mr. Fornasari decided to put his own car there. That's the explanation, and I think it's a good one.
Now, I have no problem understanding that his designs divide opinion, but he doesn't deserve to be ridiculed for the quality on his cars. To see what standards his brand-new production cars live up to, you just had to take one look through the window of the RR99 (the huge light-blue SUV). Not many other cars from equally small companies could match the finish of that interior.
That's fair enough...but even a 200,000 mile car of pretty much any make can lay claim to retaining most of it's windows.The Tender on display (the boat-like creation with missing rear side windows) is his own personal car, whose chassis actually has done 300,000 kms since new. It was never intended to be on the stand, but the customer who had originally agreed to take delivery of his brand-new car after the show changed his mind in the last minute because his daughter was getting married. Rather than leaving a big empty space on the stand, Mr. Fornasari decided to put his own car there. That's the explanation, and I think it's a good one.
Now, I have no problem understanding that his designs divide opinion, but he doesn't deserve to be ridiculed for the quality on his cars. To see what standards his brand-new production cars live up to, you just had to take one look through the window of the RR99 (the huge light-blue SUV). Not many other cars from equally small companies could match the finish of that interior.
Nevertheless would love to see more pics of the tender if you have them.
shalmaneser said:
...but even a 200,000 mile car of pretty much any make can lay claim to retaining most of it's windows.
I agree. But there are a couple of key sentences in my post, "never intended to be on the stand" and "in the last minute" being the most important ones... 
I don't know why the windows were missing, but I very much doubt it was because the car couldn't retain them...I know that most people wouldn't know what I know because most people didn't speak to Mr. Fornasari himself. But I still think the explanation is quite a good one.
By the way, he told me a great story involving the Tender. On his way to a 4x4 show in Italy, he was overtaken by a guy in an Aston DB9. Deciding to have some fun, he sped up and passed the Aston. The driver subsequently followed him as he turned off the road at a service stop, and demanded to know what kind of boat he had just been overtaken by...
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