This might be an electric car I'd drive - NSU Prinz

[MUSASHI66]

https://www.carscoops.com/2023/07/audi-gives-classic-nsu-prinz-a-modern-electric-makeover-with-240-hp/

240 hp electric motor from an Audi e-tron and the same battery pack as the hybrid Audi Q7 TFSI e quattro under the hood.

Racing NSUs are not new. A guy I used to know in another life, President of Colorado Pinzgauer chapter, bought two NSUs to fix up with his son for racing duties. Unfortunately, I haven't seen him in ages to check on those

[HFV_Junkyardin]

@MUSASHI66 Thats good retro design.

[MUSASHI66]

@HFV_Junkyardin New one would have been better compared to a 4-headlight NSU Prinz than the 2-headlight model, but it still works well. Great looking little car.

[WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4]

@HFV_Junkyardin said in This might be an electric car I'd drive - NSU Prinz:

@MUSASHI66 Thats good retro design.

I forget who it was that I was listening to, but some automotive person was talking about how all the good retro designs are literally just copies of the original. Like the 04-06 Ford GT still looks so fucking awesome because it's literally just a scaled up GT40. Same for this, same for the Challenger, same for those Nissan concepts a few years ago.

It's the ones that are just based off the "idea" that end up aging terribly (PT Cruiser, SSR, HHR, etc.).

[MUSASHI66]

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4 This car, and Challenger - you can see where the inspiration comes from, but I would not really call them the "same". Gt vs Gt40 - they are the "same" until you have them side by side and look at all the different details.

[ash78]

Prinz and Prinz, Jr.

It's a like a retro Rom-Com, but with cars

[WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4]

@MUSASHI66 It's an obvious and overt inspiration though. Like, yes, there are differences, but if you put a ton of pictures of vehicles on a board, even a normy could match the old one and new one because of how similar they are in the key features.

[MUSASHI66]

@WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4 Sure it is obvious and sure it is overt. But, 2005 Ford GT and the old Gt40 might be about the only case of super similarity.

Calling the Challenger "scaled up old challenger" or calling this Prinz the same cars is just ludicrous to me.

Challenger is very much inspired by the old one - that was the ultimate goal - but it is very far removed from simply "scaled up old car".

[nerd_racing]

Looks pretty awesome. I'd sign up for one if they ever made one. It's a shame they never will mass market them.

[MUSASHI66]

@nerd_racing I want the electric future that has been promised, where a skateboard platform can have any sort of a body on top, and new models are easy to produce...

A small car like this... market just isn't there. I am shocked that Mazda can still make money on a Miata, considering it doesn't share a platform with any other model if we ignore the Fiata.

[ranwhenparked]

@MUSASHI66 when the first Challenger spy shots came out around 2006 or so, I remember people arguing on Jalopnik over whether it was actually a new car or a vintage body shell Chrysler just customized for the show circuit, this was before anyone saw it in person and really knew the dimensions

[ranwhenparked]

@MUSASHI66 could do without the flared wheel arches and LED strip around the headlights, like just about everything else though. Not really sure who decided everything needs giant wheels and aggro flares though

[MUSASHI66]

@ranwhenparked It is inspired by the racers of the time period, not the stock model. Those had flared fenders.

[ranwhenparked]

@MUSASHI66 those racers were way more subtle, the concept is exaggerated to a ridiculous level, spoils the lines

[fintail]

@MUSASHI66 I like the shape, I hate the stance with the fire of a thousand suns.

[MUSASHI66]

@ranwhenparked I dig the flares

[MUSASHI66]

@fintail I am not a fan of much camber and stretched tires. This really isn't that bad. Tires fit the wheels and camber is not really "stanced car" bad.

[Urambo Tauro]

@MUSASHI66 There exists somewhere a point at which modifications get extreme enough where one really ought to refer to the car as "formerly known as Prinz"

[415s30]

@MUSASHI66 There is a pretty raced out one here somewhere. I don't see it often. I like the EV, Nissan should make that retro car they showed too.

[MUSASHI66]

@Urambo-Tauro Ha! They should have painted it Purple

[MUSASHI66]

@415s30 They should. But they probably won’t.