Friday 23rd March 2012

How to design a car, pt 94

Forget your Italian carozzeria, or your Californian styling studios. These creations are the future. If the future somehow turns into a comic book...

---

If you're looking for something to distract your attention from the fact that it's beautiful weather outside and you're stuck in an office (if you're reading this on a smartphone or tablet from a pub beer garden, then sod ya), have a look at this wonderful website, the creation of a German-based Greek 'all-round designer'.

Sent in to us by an amused PHer (scottd007), it is a treasure trove of truly wonderful kitsch.

Leaving aside the Sega Mega Drive-esque graphics of the site itself, and the fact that there's some 'fashion design' in there as well, there are some genuinely jaw-dropping pieces of automotive wackiness to gawp at.

Of particular note are the 'body kit' for the 70s Beetle-based Nova GT car, and the frankly deranged take on the original Batmobile.

The stand-out favourite for the PH team, however, has to be the 'Black car' pictured at the top of the article. We don't know what it's based on, but we love the Knight Rider-esque paint and hilarious twin rear wheels.

Garlick, meanwhile, is looking into ordering the future-fascist costume as modelled by the driver as I write this, complete with sci-fi visor...

[The Danimal]

I'm getting an Alfa Sud feeling from the top one....???

[Martin A]

Top car is based on a Matra Simca Bagheera

[LHD]

The Danimal said:

I'm getting an Alfa Sud feeling from the top one....???

Matra Bagheera

[The Danimal]

LHD said:

The Danimal said:

I'm getting an Alfa Sud feeling from the top one....???

Matra Bagheera

Excellente! Nice one.

[IDrinkPetrol]

black car looks to have been a matra bagheera in a previous life.

[Vantagefan]

WTF

[TheEnd]

Once upon a time, the whole internet looked like that, viewed through netscape navigator...

[Riggers]

Martin A said:

Top car is based on a Matra Simca Bagheera

Is that the three-seat one?

[bofranklin]

I love how the batmobile casually happens to have a couple of circular saws on the front. Somehow I can't see this adhering to today's pedestrian safety regulations...

[angelsguardian]

Nice Gary Numan impression if no the real thing

[GC8]

TheEnd said:

Once upon a time, the whole internet looked like that, viewed through netscape navigator...

Its like 1996 all over again!

[LHD]

Riggers said:

Martin A said:

Top car is based on a Matra Simca Bagheera

Is that the three-seat one?

[ACW]

I want the wheelie bin with huge spoiler in the first pic

[AndrewW-G]

If only somebody was brave enough to stick that sort of terrible body kit on a Bentley and cover it in sticky backed plastic

[dickieandjulie]

AndrewW-G said:

If only somebody was brave enough to stick that sort of terrible body kit on a Bentley and cover it in sticky backed plastic

Calling Gulzar!

[Justayellowbadge]

Riggers, how could you not recognise the Matra?

There will be slappage next time I see you.

[Pappa Lurve]

Introduce him to Leepu - between them they could create something truly, um... interesting!

[thepook]

To be fair, that site is a bit weird....

....I still can't work-out if the guy is serious or not!

[Rumblestripe]

Worth a better score than the five it's currently running at for the shear laugh out loud braggadocio of the first picture.

Oh, and thank the lord someone identified the Matra Bagheera in that first shot, it had the potential to drive me over the edge trying to identify the victim.

[fatsams]

I think you will find the top car was a Matra Begera possibly an S.