My first post on this forum included a Pegaso as an ancestor of the Crossfire. Here are some more. Any guesses?


And this last pic is obviously not an ancestor. Just about the funniest car humor I ever saw though.

 

There are only so many shapes you can make a car. Any ancestors would have to come from the parent company and its associates.

 

Styling-wise, I definitely see it. I have no idea what this is though. Maybe an Austin-Healy?

 

I disagree. Not when you're talking an industry. Per your theory the Crossfire carries more genes from a 1920 LaFayette Four Door Coupe' than any of the pictured vehicles (LaFayette>Ajax>Nash>Rambler>American Motors>Chrysler>DiamlerChrysler>Chrysler Motors). As to only so many car shapes, Isogonis (Mini), Ferrarri, Lambo', Panoz, Nash (step-down), Overland (underslung), Cheetah, Janus, Isetta, VW Bus, etc., tell us that there are an infinate number of shapes, and we only have to look to the future and innovation for the later shapes to arrive. In the meantime, I suggest that the Chrysler mini-van is much more a progeny of the VW Bus than a Terraplane.

 

Seven different cars, six manufacturers, five countries, three continents.

 

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.

 

Correct. Slight mod to earlier statement (I counted wrong or was mistaken--not admitting which): Six different cars (one is the same car in very different livery), five different manufacturers, five countries, three continents. No Asia, one Africa.

 

Correct. Slight mod to earlier statement (I counted wrong or was mistaken--not admitting which): Six different cars (one is the same car in very different livery), five different manufacturers, five countries, three continents. No Asia, one Africa.

 

Well that got a lot less interest than I expected. Answers are: The black and green cars are both Aston Martin DB 2s (curious that the pieces appear so different), the tiny red car is a Vetta Ventura (American). The two white cars are a Siata 208 and a Siata 208cs, which are also pretty much the same car as an ATS (all off of a Fiat 8v), the silver car is another Pegaso, and the blue car is a GSM Flamingo from South Africa.