@WBizarre this is more a reminder that the range Rover isn't that big.
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It has less interior volume than a 4runner

@WBizarre So that's where the Jeep angry eyes came from.

@WBizarre it...kind of works? I'm a real sucker for a longer rear overhang and six-light DLO, though, and that's what the Puro really lacks. I am honestly not a big fan of the 'wheels at each corner' look nor a front overhang longer than the rear, but it definitely works for some cars.

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@BJ said in A6 Megamorph:

C4 was hot, C5 was not

I agree. The C5 is easily my least favorite of the A6 generations. Too bloby.

@phenotyp yes! I love his Pontiac stuff

@WBizarre

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@amoore100 I've built many turn tables for auto shows, all can see is an annoying structure. That actually looks like it's just a platform perhaps, still annoying.

Ooh! The gas filler changes from a circle to a square!

@DSM_OR_DIE said in Frenching Morph:

A widebody version will be available which adds 500 lbs to the already heavy car but doesn't actually increase the track at all.

This whole comment is gold, but this got me good

@WBizarre Triangles = Mazda

@WBizarre said in Sausaging Morph:

Who's doing the sausage more than MB right now?

Volvo? albeit with only two models and a red-headed stepchild.

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@WBizarre said in Cutening Morph:

For how tiny the Sprite is, it's got the classic dash-to-axle on point. I wonder how roomy they are.

Once you get inside, not bad. The trick is getting thru that tiny door opening, especially with the top up. Entry and exit can be tricky because your legs are all the way under the dash.

It's no Cadillac in there, but it's not as cramped as it should be. I was 5'10/220 when I had mine.

@Violet Ahh, NFS2 memories

@WBizarre Very cool, I'd drive a Cingo. Funny how similar it looks to the Supercinq R5.
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@Urambo-Tauro Same. The Buick could have been the next gen Taurus.

@WBizarre A38 plz.

@SamV8 I even googled MC8 before making that comment. At least I was right that it started out life as an SW20.

@WBizarre

I crossed the US/Canada border in my TT frequently for work. On one trip, the agent on the US side lost his shit because he couldn’t see my face. He demanded I stick my head out the window.

I have a laughably huge head. So I tilted my neck sideways and slithered out the window. Imagine Jim Carey coming out the mechanical rhino’s anus from Ace Ventura.

He was not amused.

@Milky You're welcome!

@WBizarre I want to see the faux Sportrac from GTA IV (I think it was the Contender) crossed with the second gen Sportrac. The GTA version had two doors and a more reasonably proportioned bed so the in between could be cool.

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@facw Interesting! For how similar they are there'll definitely be some awkwardness in trying to toss the seat and rear wheel so far back, but I'll give it a try.

@BaconSandwich But it's better than the second gen, which didn't black out anything and the window looked disproportionately tiny.

@theturbomrt said in Pinifarina Morph:

Now morph it into one of these
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Oh man, I still have PTSD after trying to use one of those machines, TOO MANY choices and good luck if there's a line behind you.

My mind keeps changing which I like the most out of all the viper generations, the gen 2 ACR is a real track weapon but overall shape of the other 2 gens are such a great design

@WBizarre Congratulations, you invented the International XT series!
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@WBizarre It's a surprisingly consistent design language on two very very different vehicles. Great idea.

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they typical pokie outie taillights dont help either. they never do.

@WBizarre Funny, that it’s mostly nose work, I read the title as Snorting morph!

@HFV-now-with-more-H Yep, older Focus, then last-gen 1 series hatch, and iM. So to be fair all of these are a few years old, and the current trend is for cleaner integration.

@Poor_sh I think the width difference is mostly illusion - the Ferrari picture is taken with a wider-angle lens. A quick internet search indicates there's only 4mm difference in width between these two.

@WBizarre I really love the 296. It also has some 250LM cues as well.64-Ferrari-250LM_5893-DV-17-PBC_013.jpg

@WBizarre nice car, and I like those wheels. They're also more practical/realistic than the Pontiacs.

@WBizarre Cool how the Maserati turns into a Jaguar F-type so easily 😉

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These are pretty sick tho

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@WBizarre said in Futuring Morph:

Gas, grass, or glass.

That was smooth. You earned a gold star: ⭐

@WBizarre This confirms what I thought was going on with the paintings they used to do of cars for ads, in addition to making people smaller to make the car look bigger (a trick seemingly also used for ocean liners).

@Saracen Amen

@amoore100 more Mazda in my mind

@WBizarre said in Sleekening Morph:

Gloss black cladding

this seems so stupid and counterintuitive, I drive a plastic-cladded car so I can bump into things and not worry about scrapes and scratches. Gloss black plastic arguably scratches even worse than regular body-color paint.

@WBizarre My day has been made. Thank you for your service.

I don't like the new schnozz on the CRV but, from this angle, I like the rest.

@Carbon-Fiber-Sasquatch Wow, the Volvo's really good - that hadn't occurred to me.

@WBizarre We'll know EVs really have arrived when manufactures feel confident enough to regularly just give them normal names. There are a few, but the industry isn't quite ready to consider them "just another car" yet.

@HFV I wanna say it is (was) an MN12 Cougar

@RallyWrench
Glad to see we are on the same page regarding the 6R4! So many people slate it because they say it is "ugly" (the Quattro S1 E2 was no oil painting, but nobody seems to care). Consider yourself the recipient of a "like" (my system and browser are so ancient that certain blog functionalities are missing).

How the XJ220 ended up with the 6R4 engine... well, maybe fitting a V12 and four-wheel drive, as originally planned (and promised) would be a very tall order anyway, but given the fact that Walkinshaw was in charge of turning the project into a real car... who knows.

The fact that at the same time he was developing the XJR15 (without bothering to tell Jaguar) is quite telling.

@WBizarre
First, a virtual *like" (see above for an explanation)! Particularly because I have always admired the first sketches and mockups for the 959. They looked fabulous (if a little too much 911-looking)

Regarding the Carrera GT, I was thinking of the differences between the show ("concept") car and the actual production version, same as you did with the Gruppe B Studie. Maybe they are so subtle they wouldn't show? I hadn't thought of that, but the production design team said later that not a single line is actually the same (but then that's what always happens in the transition between a design study and the real thing)

Cheers and thanks to you two.

(Just had a rather warped idea: a KdF>935/78, aka Moby Dick?. Arguably the ultimate Beetle.)

this is really cool. you can be fooled in to thinking it's citroen's take on a super or even hypercar. but really it's just the taillights, they share little else.

@HFV it's pretty funky, but look at all that glass!

@WBizarre oOh aAh sPoOkY

@WBizarre Roid rage.

@WBizarre I don't understand the newfound obsession with forcing square shapes onto curved forms. Like sure, it would make sense to have a rectangular grille opening on a '80s Volvo, but these are just odd:

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@WBizarre I would not have been able to resist that, if it had been made.

@SamV8 Judging by the engagement, so were a lot of other people lol

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@HammerheadFistpunch I think that's a MINI badge???

@WBizarre yeah, I agree that it's nowhere near perfect and I'm probably being too charitable because of how awful the facelifted outgoing Rogue looked by the end. The way the DLO drops off behind the A-pillar is a bit odd, and the fact that the swage line coming off the front fenders disappears on the doors and then the swage line on the 'hips' is just a few mm lower is, uh, something:

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I will say I am a strong proponent of brightwork since it gives much needed contrast, and I think it's an interesting graphic that they've chosen to tie the D-pillar 'fin' into the DLO by using the upper chrome piece; it gives a clean break for the two-tone versions though on solid color cars it leaves much to be desired and draws the eye to the unsightly trunk shutline:

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and yeah, overall I'm very much not a fan of the black plastic on the bottom of the doors, I know it's to reduce visual mass but it just creates an odd graphic that makes the car feel broken in the middle. I think I prefer it with the chrome applique since the way it thins and thickens hides the oddness of the shape more. I don't understand why it can't just be a more consistent layer of black plastic, though. Cars looked better with a simple strip of cladding rather than the odd graphics that are being used these days.

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On the 2nd gen X-Trail it was barely noticeable and certainly pulls its weight to reduce visual mass lower down.