Still not seen a 4C yet
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sato said:
I saw one on the M25 last week. Looks much more exotic than I expected. Would nt go as far as pretty, but it definitely stood out.
Striking is the word I use to describe cars like it, its not quite balanced to my eye to be pretty, and the details are a little to artsy rather than pretty.I'm surprised living London you haven't seen one, have you tried standing out side Harrods, maybe Arab supercar season will bring some blue ones over!
From around the forums I'd say there's a batch of them coming to the UK in the next couple of weeks. First ones have only recently arrived.
When I first saw it, it was not at all what I expected. Much smaller, wider and lower. That was in a showroom, later in traffic it looked different still. The fussiness of the convex angles and the shutlines I noticed on pictures are not that eyecatching in real life and what you are left to look at is curves and hunches. I found white and silver much nicer than in pics, and flat red only nice IRL when the car has black rims. I think the car's presence really differs per color. All a matter of taste really innit?
When I first saw it, it was not at all what I expected. Much smaller, wider and lower. That was in a showroom, later in traffic it looked different still. The fussiness of the convex angles and the shutlines I noticed on pictures are not that eyecatching in real life and what you are left to look at is curves and hunches. I found white and silver much nicer than in pics, and flat red only nice IRL when the car has black rims. I think the car's presence really differs per color. All a matter of taste really innit?
In photos it looked very short and dumpy, except from the low angle frontal shots where it looked fabulous.
When I saw it in reality, it looked slightly better proportioned than in photos ( but I didn't lay down in front of it to compare my favourite photographic view with the reality!).
But, they were trying too hard with the design details, the contrasting carbon fibre 'add-on' spoiler for example frankly looked cheap. Other details were fussy.
I ended up feeling completely neutral about the car; it's appearance had less wow factor than I'd hoped; it's practicality in terms of getting anything into it other than a Ryanair cabin bag, combined with a tiny fuel tank, left me wondering where this car fits in to any role. It was bloody quick in a straight line but I disliked the occasional clunky gear change.
As has been said elsewhere, I'm sure that this car car is very colour sensitive and now, out of curiosity only, I wait to see more.
When I saw it in reality, it looked slightly better proportioned than in photos ( but I didn't lay down in front of it to compare my favourite photographic view with the reality!).
But, they were trying too hard with the design details, the contrasting carbon fibre 'add-on' spoiler for example frankly looked cheap. Other details were fussy.
I ended up feeling completely neutral about the car; it's appearance had less wow factor than I'd hoped; it's practicality in terms of getting anything into it other than a Ryanair cabin bag, combined with a tiny fuel tank, left me wondering where this car fits in to any role. It was bloody quick in a straight line but I disliked the occasional clunky gear change.
As has been said elsewhere, I'm sure that this car car is very colour sensitive and now, out of curiosity only, I wait to see more.
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