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InitialDave posted:I like them. Sensible city car with full luxury interior, I'd have one if I lived/worked in London. Don't you have to buy a DBS or something and then you get a Cygnet? You can't buy them separatly right?
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beedeebee posted:Don't you have to buy a DBS or something and then you get a Cygnet? You can't buy them separatly right? wikipedia posted:Sales will not be restricted; however, it is expected that demand from existing Aston Martin owners for Cygnet would initially take priority. The car has been canceled due to hilariously low sales - 150 units of of an expected 4,000.
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Mister Kingdom posted:The car has been canceled due to hilariously low sales - 150 units of of an expected 4,000.  Well, it's not like I would have been able to afford one anyway.
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Detroit Q. Spider posted:
An '11 iQ with only 10,000k is just £6,500.
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GentlemanofLeisure posted:There's a blue one on Autotrader UK with 14k on the clock for just £19,000!!! Thats practically a bargain! How much would it cost to take an iQ and put in a super fancy interior?
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Mister Kingdom posted:How much would it cost to take an iQ and put in a super fancy interior? More than just buying a Cygnet I'm sure. The whole interior is super-fancy hand stitched leather. Honestly even if I could afford the car I'd be afraid to ever touch the interior because, well...I tend to beat the poo poo out of interiors. 
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I am really digging the square headlights. I always love seeing american cars like this is out of place countries like Japan and Russia. It must get so much attention any time its in public.
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88h88 posted:This is beautiful. Amazing. I wanna get this framed
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Mister Kingdom posted:The car has been canceled due to hilariously low sales - 150 units of of an expected 4,000. I'm surprised, the car made a lot of sense in the bizarro world that is London. Your million+ pound flat would have a garage (or garridge, phonetically) where you park the real Aston, and this you cram into a permit bay on the street between two mid 90s Range Rovers. You take it to the shops and to restaurants, but when it's date night or high tea at the Ritz you park it for the DBS. Actually none of that happens and people with that kind of money don't actually use city cars or drive themselves anywhere, hence the dismal sales.
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Das Volk posted:Actually none of that happens and people with that kind of money don't actually use city cars or drive themselves anywhere, hence the dismal sales. You know you're around some moneyed individuals when you see someone street-parking an F40 to go to the pub. Quick edit: I should probably put some awesome poo poo here. This is what I imagine a goonmeet at Kastein's looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbLwmUdee64 InitialDave fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jan 26, 2014 |
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88h88 posted:This is beautiful. This is amazing. Seeing the old-school Japanese flavour doused all over an American car is like wasabi on steak and it is beautiful.
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Bro. Bro. Bro. Its wafu sauce over steak. A5-9 Wagyu.
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This was photoshopped PR stunt for a marketing firm: http://www.brandpowder.com/911-ds-the-perfect-car/
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88h88 posted:This is beautiful. It's not even good in an ironic way. c'mon.
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Viking Blood posted:It's not even good in an ironic way. c'mon.  My wife? Yes My dog? Maybe My Dodge? NEVER!
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That entire rear axle is a thing of beauty 
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If AI existed in the mid-70's everyone would be fapping about how that car has all the perfect mods. It is unironically fantastic and works a lot better than the faux-eleanor restomod bullshit everyone else seems to do.
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The 1970s were a terrible time. The faux luggage rack thing on the back is a bit too much. 
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88h88 posted:
OK I was on the fence but this is just too great. It's like disco never died.
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From Shorpy.com - the most wholesome car wallpaper you'll see this year.
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dubzee posted:OK I was on the fence but this is just too great. It's like disco never died.  So the above picture of the picnic, is this where the term 'tailgating' came from?
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88h88 posted:
I'd just like to point out that this car is from Japan, who are already into doing this stuff with their own cars. Authenticity is a big deal over there.
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Slavvy posted:This is amazing. Seeing the old-school Japanese flavour doused all over an American car is like wasabi on steak and it is beautiful. There is nothing "old school japanese flavor" about this other than maybe the rectangle lights. This is basically a perfectly created period piece.
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Octopus Magic posted:This is basically a perfectly created period piece. What period are we talkin' here?
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Viking Blood posted:What period are we talkin' here? In Sweden the cars looked _exactly_ like that in 1975-1980. So Maybe a few years earlier in the States? Edit: Here are a few covers from Swedish Magazine "Colorod". Small pictures but its enough to see the style.    Tapet fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Jan 27, 2014 |
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I'd say yesterday's front page article is pretty awesome. 
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'd say yesterday's front page article is pretty awesome. Well now I really want a BR-Z in that color.
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Das Volk posted:I'm surprised, the car made a lot of sense in the bizarro world that is London. Your million+ pound flat would have a garage (or garridge, phonetically) where you park the real Aston, and this you cram into a permit bay on the street between two mid 90s Range Rovers. You take it to the shops and to restaurants, but when it's date night or high tea at the Ritz you park it for the DBS. Actually, you're half right here, but in being half right you highlight how badly the Cygnet failed. Last time I visited my parents in their Mediterranean tax haven I made a point of wandering around their building's parking garage (you always find some interesting things tucked away). As you might expect, Range Rovers and Cayennes were the most common, but almost every garage unit that had one or the other also usually had either a mini or a smart car (iirc there might actually have been more smart cars than Range Rovers). Not a single Cygnet to be seen, however. However, as I understand it, the real reason Bez struck the deal to badge engineer the iQ was so that AM could meet the EU fleet CO2 figure, not because any of their customers actually wanted such a thing.
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Gorilla Salad posted:From Shorpy.com - the most wholesome car wallpaper you'll see this year. Dat loving sandwich.
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Porsche's museum warehouse: http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/17/porsche-secret-museum-warehouse-featured/ Many cool things lurk in there.
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 Oh its a lovely looking green Audi, why is my roommate taking a look at this car. Oh great they are opening the hood and...   (My roommate described the ride as the engine pulling the car around. It also had no exhaust so the V8 was loud as gently caress  )
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That's awesome, but every time I see an Audi/VAG engine bay I have to wonder if they have some internal competition going on in the engineering department to see who can get the most weight in front of the axles as possible.
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ElMaligno posted:
That's a pretty aggressive motor swap for that chassis, and certainly not a common one. Better than the horrible 2.8L V6 that was a standard option. Is your roommate buying the Cactus A4?
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GramCracker posted:That's a pretty aggressive motor swap for that chassis, and certainly not a common one. Better than the horrible 2.8L V6 that was a standard option. Is your roommate buying the Cactus A4? No, it belongs to a friend of his.
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InitialDave posted:Pucker.gif they've got some shadow weirdness going on when you compare them to the tank's
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atomicthumbs posted:they've got some shadow weirdness going on when you compare them to the tank's Yes it's obviously fake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS9jXVoWluk
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Stolen from fark: A fantastic AI obituary. Sounds like a guy I'd have liked to meet.
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