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What was the design brief here? Let's take one of the most beautiful cars on the planet and draw a caricature or cartoon of it?
 
CLEAH said:
What was the design brief here? Let's take one of the most beautiful cars on the planet and draw a caricature or cartoon of it?
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look who comes to get you when it breaks down !!!
 
Looks like a cross between a BMW M Roadster and a Mini. It's right hand drive - came out of the UK? Maybe it has one of those nice M engines stuffed in there.
 
I sure hope Donald cant see that picture , he would be rolling in his grave .......it is Butt Ugly
 
I think it's great. The Healey lives! Designers still think of the Healey's classic lines after all these years?! And someone took the considerable time to pen this representation of what they thought the car might look like in today's market ..... Not bad.
 
I think it has potential as a design but it still needs work to make the front less 'brutish'. Some cutback under the grill and a better shape to the headlamps would improve it I think.
 
I think all these retro designs, Mustang, Camaro, etc. all look like a caricature or a little cartoonish of the original cars. I never did understand why if they want to build a car as a throw back to the original, why don't they just build the original again. Anyway, I kind of like it. Guess I'm getting use to caricatures. Dave.
 
Looks like a Saturn Sky to me but not as pretty. I agree about the "cartoonish" look. It's like some school of design says "no, that's nice but you need to make it look puffed up and because it is made out of plastic it needs to look like it". Also my opinion nothing looks good with low profile tires, but then I also tuck in my Hawaiian shirts. The latest versions of Der Cooper are a joke in terms of any kind of heritage. OK, where did I leave my rocking chair....
 
Cool drawings, I agree with Rick that the Bug Eye is not attractive. The reactions are funny and typical. Same as on the MG forums.
Barefoot, I like an SII E with a body colored hardtop and chrome steelies with hubcaps. They look like Disco Volantes. To drive an SI after dark, one should pick a night with a full moon.
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These updated design studies are always hampered by the designer's need to incorporate the styling cues of the original into the new design. But if a new Healey were to be produced (which I truly believe will never happen) it might well contain none of the old styling elements. Hard to find any E-Type references in the new F-Type, which I really like but it's nowhere as beautiful as the E-Type:

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I agree about the F-type not being as pretty as the E, but I don't think much of anything is as pretty as an E type. I think a lot of your car taste is dialed in by the time you hit twenty or so, and the things that really trip your trigger follow the cues or style that you learned to love when young. I look at the new cars with huge wheels that look like they have rubber bands on them and think they look ridiculous, but I am sure the under 30 set (for the most part) probably thinks smallish wheels (and 15" is tiny to the younger set, I just got a new/old Lexus, and on the Lexus forum 17" are small wheels to most of the guys there) and higher profile tires look old fashioned.

I do have the power to evolve a little I guess, as I think the new Fords and Mazdas don't look too bad, nor does the new Miata that is coming out, to my eye anyway.

As far as the new Healey drawing, I agree, looks like it should cost about two bucks, the price of a new Hot Wheels car...
 
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