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Have we had a concept cars thread before? As I haven't seen one recently I think it's a pretty good place to post our favourite prototypes and styling exercises from the sublime to the ridiculous. It's what car designers do when let off the lead. Some of these ideas went into production on cars we know and love and others were just too far out there to ever make it to the streets.  Volvo 263 GL  Lancia Stratos Zero  Lincoln Futura, AKA Batmobile The Volvo could have been a production car, the other two look like the future we could have had.  Then some concepts go right into production with very few changes. |
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braaap
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Volvo 263 GL The Volvo could have been a production car. It probaly would have if it didn't look so much like a saab.  Have a fiesta concept:  |
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Last Edit: Nov 1, 2024 19:44:05 GMT by braaap
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Have a fiesta concept: That's a 1974 Lincoln Continental. Considering that's one of the largest cars ever made by Ford the Fiesta* doesn't look *that* small next to it. Here's a 1978 Lincoln with a Smart!  I sometimes regret selling that old beast. The Lincoln that is. |
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Last Edit: Nov 1, 2024 19:49:41 GMT by akku
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was talking about concept cars today in a group chat.. specifically all the ones that relate to the Bertone design that became the Citroen BX Namely the Reliant/Anadol FW11, Volvo Tundra and seemingly the Mazda rx81 (not seen it cited elsewhere, but it was styled by Bertone, and well.. look at it)    |
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Last Edit: Nov 1, 2024 21:43:12 GMT by Ratchet
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1971 vw beetle 1200
1978 international loadstar 1700 4x4
1987 landrover 110
1994 Yamaha FZR600r
2010 honda CBF1000GT
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A few more for your delectation.  Ferrari Pininfarina 512 S Speciale  Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale Pininfarina 33/2 Coupe Speciale  1973 Chevrolet Aerovette  Ford Indigo |
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A few more for your delectation. Ferrari Pininfarina 512 S Speciale  |
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I'd love to know the story behind that. Some Italian Job style scenario?
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Last Edit: Nov 4, 2024 16:01:01 GMT by ratchart
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I'd love to know the story behind that. Some Italian Job style scenario? IIRC it was less exciting. After a photoshooting they needed the tractor to get the car out of the pit. I don't know if they couldn't start it or if it was the terrain that kept the car from driving on its own. |
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BMW Nazca M12. Just. Look. At. It. I'm not much of a BMW fan, but whoa. I remember lusting after this as a 19 year old. 5 litre V12, gullwing t-tops, the stuff of a future that never was, sadly.  |
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Last Edit: Nov 4, 2024 19:50:03 GMT by mrbounce
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Would definitely have to have a stick on registration plate though
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Would definitely have to have a stick on registration plate though I don't like silver cars, but I'd rock that, stick on plate or not  |
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I think i've maybe still got a few packs of photos of the concept cars from the motorshows at the NEC in the late 80s/early 90s. Audi quattro spyder concept always looked good to me.   |
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I've still not seen that, but I have seen the wooden buck used to make it.
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Ford Saxon built in the sixties as a one off prototype and probably destroyed according to the info I have read. A replica has been made by a chap called Colin Ginn from the one known photo of it.    |
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Such a shame Ford didn't put this into production in the sixties. It would have been a interesting rival to the Sunbeam Alpine and MGB.
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Ford Saxon built in the sixties as a one off prototype and probably destroyed according to the info I have read. A replica has been made by a chap called Colin Ginn from the one known photo of it. If you check out the original picture they were trying different looks as each side is not symmetrical. |
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Extremely well spotted. Had to look many times before I could see what you were seeing.
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Something odd about that original picture, looking through the rear window the lines at the bottom of the passengers windows don't line up, the windscreen pillar angle looks odd and a rear quarter window ? Almost looks like a photoshop  |
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Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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^^^
Prototypes sometimes have different details on both sides, so that one may have had a quarter window on only one side?
And if the old one was already a convertible with a hardtop, that would explain the mismatch of the lower window edges.
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