[DeTomaso] NPC: Obvious design flaws

[Sean Korb]

Speaking as a genuine fan, every single early Mustang, Maverick,
Pinto, Falcon, Comet, Cougar, and anything with Falcon platform.  Not
only is the frame built witht he flexibility of a kleenex box (after
cutting the front off with a Plasma cutter, you realize how easy that
is) the gas tank doubles as a trunk floor, drenching passengers in
gasoline in a rear end collision.

Again, as a genuine fan, the H-Body GM.  Monzas, Vegas and the like.
Not for the aluminium blocks that disintegrated, I thought that was a
pretty *good* idea, just badly executed.  It was again, the frame.
Built without the benefit of CAD, they just kept adding wafers of
steel and rivets until it would hold together enough to drive off the
lot.  It fell apart shortly thereafter with general failure in the
lower control arm anchors.

I still miss my 5.7L California edition Towne Coupe, though.  Traded
it for 2 4 packs of Guinness and I think I ripped the poor guy off.

sean

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Mikael <mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk> wrote:
> Boring Sunday evening, let's start something. What cars have undisputed
> design flaws? Doesn't have to be an objective truth shared by the rest of
> the world, but should be justified. Be specific
>
>
>
> Some of mine:
>
> 1.    Modern Corvette. I like it until I see the cut off rear end. Why? Why
> would GM think that a wall is attractive?
>
> 2.    Cadillac's vertical lamps. A designer once said that for decades
> designers have tried to make cars look low and wide. Vertical lamps do the
> opposite
>
> 3.    69 Camaro. Yes I love Camaros, and the 68 was great. How to design
> something better? They couldn't, all they could was move the head lamps
> inwards and make it look cross eyed and extend and increase the fender
> crease so from behind it looks like a woman that sits more than she should
>
> 4.    Most 70s US cars, putting the rear lamps in the bumpers was ugly
>
> 5.    Any non-911 Porsche. Porsche apparently believes that any car of
> theirs must look like the 911 gone wrong. They Cayenne looks like an
> inflatable 911 with too way too much air in it. First time I saw a magazine
> picture of the Cayenne, I seriously thought for a moment that somebody had
> cut up a 911 and made a joke. The Panamera looks like a clay 911 put in the
> wind tunnel before it dried properly. Boxster, some years, looked the same
> coming and going. Cayman, well it was a 911, wasn't it?
>
> 6.    Most Chris Bangle BMWs. Dame Edna lights, that's something you draw
> for fun on a company outing, and then you take care not to mix up the
> Shredder with the Suggestion Box
>
> 7.    Ferraris current round rear lights, sitting on top of the fender. Like
> something out of Duckburg
>
> 8.    All cars with LED light bands. That's something 18 year olds put on
> their infantile cars when trying to be different, together with purple dot
> lights and green interior light
>
> 9.    I'd even put a DeTomaso in there. The Guara, the rear third looks like
> it should be on another car? Front is beautiful
>
>
>
> Mikael
>
>
>
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Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
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