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I really don't know a thing about them.If I'd attended Art School of Design or something,I might have some insight into what motivates some stylists to do what they do.
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I was looking for speculation on whether they spin (easy) or are fixed (hard to do) and why they don't face the same way in the airflow. And I didn't point to the wheelwell arch extensions that would prevent the car rolling on turns or navigating potholes. My money is on a student that doesn't consider that vehicles are supposed to move through the environment. IRL pedestrians would have to throw themselves onto those mirrors.
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After 1973 I became a young fuddy-duddy.I can't experience passion when I look at cars,considering some of the ramifications of cars in motion.The global community has paid a lofty price for aesthetes and their whimsical creations.
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Passion vs caring? The Mitsubishi i-MiEV proposal looks much like our old friend The Template.
Since the mid-60s I've preferred car shows to destruction derbies. The last destruction derby I attended all the other drivers had it in for a white '48 Studebaker 4-door. It made me ill.
"The global community has (also) paid a lofty price for" economic shortsightedness.
They had no idea these VW vans would be worth 50-100 thou apiece in 2015
Speaking of Interesting Aerodynamic Cars, here's the So-Cal Plating shop truck:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-southern-california-plating-company.html
TIL it has Woodlite headlights buried in the front apron. And that's the
very first DuVall windshield. Nine pictures at the link.