The €490,000 answer to girly caravans.
Sunday, 19 October 2008
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It's reminiscent of the trucks from the movie "Brazil".
ReplyDeleteSeems like for $600+K you should get a bit more style on the outside. Something more like the "Jungle Yachts" that Commander Gatti took to the Congo. Or of course, like my all time favorite; Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser.
I really don't get the over-Tonkification of so many vehicles these days. How hard is it to wrap things up in streamlined bodies?
Compound curves are easier drawn on shiny spaceships on covers of pulp magazines than designed.
ReplyDeleteAnd they are very hard to describe precisely in a 2-D drawing.
You can mold a curved surface, but then how do you produce the molding ?
Never mind that, I agree that the cruiser is ugly. And it's the designer's job to make compound curves no matter how frustrating it may be.
I keep thinking of things like the New York Central Streamliner locomotives from 1938-39, the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 Electric locomotive, and the Lincoln Zephyrs from around 1937.
ReplyDeleteAll proving that vehicles of any size don't have to look like they are on their way to collect dumpsters
Beautiful. Doesn't it seem that today's vehicles are made to achieve some sort of deliberate refined ugliness ? Here are some very beautiful planes:
ReplyDeleteBoeing P-26
Polikarpov I-16
Bah. We need more brutally-visaged vehicles. There's a kind of beauty in this aesthetic, like the kind found in a concrete tower block. I like it.
ReplyDeleteThere are different kinds of concrete tower blocks.
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