in 2009 I did some work for Laguna Seca including the logo for the Grand Am sports car race. I did versions that included the Grand Sham Daytona Prototype car, but the car was too ugly to use (I think their printers would have refused to print it??) so they went with a logo that didn't show the car
in the movie Executive Decision (1996), a fictional F-117 variant is able to carry a team of 4+ people inside the payload area somehow. I'm working on a theory that the Grand Am Daytona Prototype had a similar functional capacity, which explains why it was shaped *like that*
these two always seem jarring to me, like totally removed from the sedans (and also rare for me to see since neither were sold in US)
this is what everyone's YouTube search history looks like right
the taillights perfectly fit with the interior design: a lovingly-made digital simulacrum of The Real Thing
we’re two-for-two on billionaires designing cars and assuming they know a better position for a resting windshield wiper to sit
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the most memorable was this aircooled three-cylinder diesel 😜
remembering the Mini Cooper JCW GP, one of the only 2000s extreme hot hatches actually sold in the US 🌶️
it’s easy to forget but the final iteration Exige got the V6 for a few years
they made lots of mid-engine C3-era concepts, you don’t have to imagine! www.corvsport.com/every-mid-en...
The mercedes interior looks like the inside of a toaster oven (derogatory)
Rode in electric-converted Fiero by the North Carolina Alternative Energy Corporation in ~1993 Drove a Leaf in 2011
The GT-one was secretly Marlboro sponsored, but the West McLarens are some of my all-time favs (Ron would NOT have stood for bullshit-ass Google Chrome wheel covers and 75 crypto sponsors sharing a sidepod)
funny thing about Nissan design of a just slightly earlier era: even though I followed the R390 when it raced, I never knew that its fascia was referencing a bunch of low-end Nissans like this Almera. We never got those in the US, so I learned the R390 had a ’family face’ just like 2 years ago
Yes they were! Those came on the Track version; there was a lower-spec 18” wheel that was also six-spoke that looked pretty much like what was on the concept car
I just learned that that’s where the fuel goes this week (I was in a ‘76)
Original 350Z ran from 2003-05, with a facelift in 2006 (head/taillights, 5-spoke wheels, simpler ‘grille’) — it kept the hood with vertical creases. For 07-08 it got a new engine, requiring a taller, domed hood without creases. If you see a facelift Z with a creased hood, it can only be 2006
when you see someone driving the cheapo decontented Model Y
Mazda USA went back and found all three Chicago show cars (red, white, and blue) decades later and acquired them. The white one had been used as a race car, and was preserved that way in 2018