This Mercedes concept design is a homage to their 1960s C-111 prototype. by Wallace Wyss - Mercedes-Benz recently unveiled the Vision One-Eleven, an electric homage to the gillinged metallic orange C111 experimental supercar first shown … [Read more...]
Is This Spohn Convertible The Ugliest Car Anywhere?
May 11, 2023 By 34 Comments
by Mike Gulett - From the My Car Quest archives (or the Wayback Machine if you prefer) comes this story originally from March 2013 about a very unusual car. When this was first published it generated some controversy as you can see from the … [Read more...]
Why Have Wings On Street Cars?
April 18, 2023 By 7 Comments
by Mike Gulett - We all have different ideas about what we like and do not like in car styles. In a super car some of us like wings or spoilers on the back and some (like me) do not because they spoil the looks of the car. The wing on the back is … [Read more...]
Pondering the Folly of Flippery of the Annual Model Change
March 20, 2023 By 7 Comments
A matter of philosophy. by Wallace Wyss - In pondering the (sales) success of Tesla (Never no mind the inexplicable down-in-the-dumps stock price) I always come back to one of its core secrets that is so obvious you wonder how can the rest … [Read more...]
Design Critique – Bentley Batur
December 9, 2022 By 1 Comment
by Wallace Wyss - While design of an economy car is critical to its success, I think at the other end of the scale, it's much more entertaining. When you're talking say $2,000,000 per car, that can give a designer a lot of latitude in which way … [Read more...]
Design: Is The 2023 Nissan Z Too Retro?
December 4, 2022 By 6 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I am a big fan of retro. I like it when an all new design takes something from the models' history and incorporates it. Say the Bentley Continental S/C--it had a Sedanca de Ville roof that was like Bentleys of 50 years … [Read more...]
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