car design
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These Old Ghia-Designed VW Prototypes Are Some Of The Best-Looking VWs You’ve Never Seen
For a company that took almost forty years to come up with a real replacement for the Beetle, Volkswagen sure spent a lot of time trying to come up with replacements to the Beetle. Proposals for updated and improved Beetles and post-Beetles were developed and rejected all throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Some ended…
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Honda Used To Hold Annual ‘Idea Contests’ That Gave The World The Folding Motocompo Motorbike And A Vertical-Driving Car
Humans have been building cars in quantity for well over a century, and in that time there’s been many, many interesting, unusual, and often downright freaky experiments and variations and concepts, but I feel pretty confident in saying that Honda’s former annual Idea Contests may have been one of the greatest incubators for truly bonkers…
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This Spanish Land Rover Variant May Be The Ugliest Land Rover Ever
First thing, allow me to apologise to you. I realise that most of our readers took a look at the Santana Ligero up there and immediately and involuntarily emitted a quick, alarmed squirt of terror-urine right into their pants. I regret that this happened, but I really felt there was no other way to show…
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The Citroën BX Was An Angular Spaceship And I Love It
When I was in middle school, an abandoned Citroën BX lived in a vacant lot a few blocks from my house. It had a profound effect on me.