Re: More ancestors
Originally Posted by patpur
Interesting that they are diifferent manufacturers but similar body designs. If you look at today's cars it would seem that the American designers are definitely borrowing form their European and Asian counterparts. So I guess its not that unusual. Its funny someone mentioned that there are only so many ways you can go as far as design so how do they explain the Scion XB which is a box. Did that start out as a designer's joke?
As for the pics I would have to guess an Alfa and maybe a Jag?
A box is a 3D shape so why not make one that way?
The green car is an Aston Martin DB-2. The others I do not know.
Trivia, DB stands for David Brown. 2 stands for 1 after 1.
An infinite amount of shapes yes if you want to call a micro change a change, I am saying in general.
You take a basic car shape as we know them now and pull and twist the shape and you have a new style, necessity dictates a rough shape and you go from there. After a while we come back to what we had some time ago, square and angular shapes get rounded and then back to square, with a multiplicity of shapes between. Features seen on one design get blended with features from other designs.
The designer has vision and the production team modify it a little or a lot to make it practical.
Last edited by onehundred80; May 12, 2010 at 01:55 PM.