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Back in high school and college wedgie or as we called it, the corner was something you certainly didn t want, in any case and you definitely didn t appreciate when it came, but in the design of the car, the corner is something you can enjoy.
The beautiful shape and the technique has been used by many top design houses of seventy years and was a signal the future was officially arrived While not the most aerodynamic in practice, it certainly looked the part and helped usher in a new era of automotive design Italian design houses Bertone and Pininfarina ItalDesign were at the forefront of the movement, but the Japanese, the Germans and the United States followed suit soon after.
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First displayed at the Turin Motor Show in 1972, the Lotus Esprit M70 was designed by Giugiaro for Ital Design and was built on a widened and lengthened chassis Europa After positive reviews from the public Colin Chapman decided to put the Spirit Production the final design was completed in 1973 with most indices intact concept and then when GM owned Lotus decided to build Peter Stevens redesign in 1987, many of the original indices remained.
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Anecdote you couldn t you call a car guy unwittingly already Roger Moore drove a submersible version in the James Bond film in 1977, the spy who loved me.
In 1989, after nearly two decades of development, Gerald Wiegert revealed its Vector W8 EXTENSIVE to use aircraft construction technology should be the point of sale W8S, but the quality of poor quality and lack of funding finally made Lamborghini down the competitor to the US in the mid-nineties the W8 has drawn inspiration from the 1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo and many other area of cars in our list and is still a nice car and you can pick one of the few examples for a flight; nearly 20 percent of the asking price original 685000.
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Anecdote The Vector W8 was presented briefly in the 1993 film, Rising Sun.
The Turbo BMW E25 was originally built to celebrate the upcoming 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, but was later used as inspiration for the M1 series 8 Z1 and the new concept BMW M1 Homage built the Turbo concept as a rolling display for a new safety and engineering technologies as well as show that BMW had officially left the difficult 60 behind penned by French chef BMW design, Paul Bracq, Turbo concept was designed after the supercars Italian the most dramatic of the day and introduced an advanced radar system that warned the driver of nearby objects such as curbs and cars.
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Anecdote The Turbo presented two BMW badge on the rear BMW symbolizing the exceptional quality of a signal that made the M1 production and M1 Homage concept.
Dome was and still is a racing car manufacturer in Japan and in 1978, they gave the world the concept Zero Dome at the Geneva Motor Show designed to show the intention of building a special dome for approval new range of cars sport; he could not pass the Japanese approval in 1979, Dome debuted a revised zero, dubbed the P2, with bumpers the US market and additional safety equipment design In the same year, a racing effort was launched at Le Mans, but the RL zero failed to finish the race Shortly after, investors pulled their funds and zero Dome was officially dead.
Anecdote The Dome Zero was introduced in Gran Turismo 4, Auto Modellista on the PS2 and Sega GT on the XBOX.
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At Turin 1970 Show, Bertone unveiled a style called exercise the Lancia Stratos Zero Lancia Stratos HF roadcar was loosely based off of this concept if the similarities are few futuristic Zero is 838mm high and was so low that conventional doors could not be used and access, drivers should increase the windshield and walk into the car.
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Anecdote The Stratos Zero appeared in the film Michael Jackson 1988 Moonwalker.
In 1971, the Maserati Boomerang was presented at the Turin Motor Show as a mockup and then in 1972, the Geneva Motor Show saw the debut of the Maserati fully realized concept Boomerang He was sitting next to the Lotus Esprit M70 as both were designed by Giugiaro to ItalDesign a high 1070mm, it is not the shortest corner in the list, but there was a rake rake the steeper 15-degree windshield, you can get while maintaining visibility, but little ItalDesign used the Boomerang as inspiration when designing the DMC Delorean most remarkable in view of the back in the eighties.
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Trivia Designed as a showcar, Boomerang was registered as roadcar and was actually sold in 1974 to a private collector brings us to 2005 when it was auctioned at Christie's for a cool 1 million.
The Holden Hurricane is an experimental design built in 1969 and was the first product of the research and development group GM Holden ultra low position 990mm hurricane would have entry and exit difficult with traditional doors, so a powered awning electro was used-mechanical and swung forward over the front wheels also had power seats higher than the two stood up and the road and the steering column to break the easiest When Hurricane get in the car seat would lower to a semi-recumbent position and the roof shut overhead.
Anecdote A similar cover design was used in both the Saab Aero-X and the Batmobile films of Tim Burton Batman.
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Painted black for the Geneva Motor Show 1970 and then again in white sprayed his debut at the Turin Show in 1970; Paulo Martin parked -Ferrari Pininfarina Modulo concept gained quite a reputation and won numerous international design awards 22 of them for a car that almost wasn t produces the output of cars took place more a year due to apprehension Sergio Pininfarina Developed with Ferrari 512 S as a base runner, high 935mm PF Modulo was built to explore new technologies and construction show the first love of the house of Italian design.
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Anecdote Paulo Martin drew a Rolls-Royce Camargue dashboard when it occurred to him to make the first sketch of the Modulo You could say it was more than a little annoyed with the rollers.
Designed by Gandini for Bertone in 1971, the Lamborghini Countach original concept was the purest version of the public would never see this car doors in wild scissor were first seen on another car in our list, the concept Alfa Romeo carabo and were used primarily because of the extremely large frame, but we think the real reason is because Gandini knew each rice boy did want on their econo-hatch one day the name Countach was derived from the dialect Piedmont region in northern Italy, which literally means astonishment and amazement the sleek design of the concept loosely translated LP400 in production if it was cut short when splitters, wings and bumpers to requirements United States were added to the mixture in LP400S models LP500 and QV.
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Anecdote The Countach was featured in the 1981 film, The Cannonball Run and is one of the most replicated car to date.
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