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View Poll Results: Does automobile styling matter to you?
Absolutely 21 39.62%
Sort of 25 47.17%
Not at all 7 13.21%
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Old 11-06-2008, 11:11 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Wow, that is really cool. Trebuchet, do you know where you found that? I'm also interested in the smaller "car".
Search for Colani design... Luigi Colani does and has done some beautiful work based on organic (specifically, found in nature) shapes.

Funny thing... That semi was created decades ago


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Old 11-07-2008, 02:46 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Thanks, read up on Colani.

The pic is from the 1989 Automorrow but that's all I've found so far.

http://www.automorrow.com/articles/auto89press.html

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Old 11-07-2008, 11:41 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Thanks, read up on Colani.

The pic is from the 1989 Automorrow but that's all I've found so far.

Welcome to Automorrow
Browsing Colani.de, I think the car is related to the 1976 Racing Polo

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Old 11-07-2008, 11:55 AM   #24 (permalink)
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I voted ABSOLUTELY.

Life is too short to drive an ugly car. I can appreciate the utilitarian mods members make in the name of improved aero, but they aren't for me. I've owned trucks that I considered nothing more than utilitarian appliances, but my cars have always had to appeal to me in style.
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Old 11-16-2008, 10:16 PM   #25 (permalink)
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I would expect most ecomodders put function over form.
I agree. Of course that is just me . A couple of accidents, simple door dings.. gimme the goofy steel bumper and hardened trim all the way around the buggy any day...
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Old 11-19-2008, 06:15 PM   #26 (permalink)
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[QUOTE=SuperTrooper;71334]I voted ABSOLUTELY.

Life is too short to drive an ugly car. [QUOTE]

U say this and u drive a beetle wtf!


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