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    Image of Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish! Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish!
    05/11/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade


    Mhgheg ghj jpgjprgge fhfrheghe....


    KARIN!!!!

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    Image of Turbolence88 Turbolence88
    05/11/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    Isn't Karin a car make in GTA IV?
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/11/09

    @Turbolence88: Oh yeah, they make the Dilletante, among others. That thing is perfect for j-turns.
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    Definitely from the Aston-Martin Lagonda school of straight-edge-and-planar aesthetics. Those owning French curves need not apply.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    05/10/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: The irony there is brutal.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    The problem is, they thought things out backward.


    Some giggling Frenchman drew this thing up. "How mooch cannabees vould eet take to make thees look like a goot ideea?"


    Upon receiving the answer, he scaled his greenhouse up to accommodate the necessary amount of... herbs and spices.


    The issue is that they could not have legally sold the car with enough grass inside to knock over a Shetland pony. So everyone saw it for what it was, laughed at it, and doomed it to eternal concept status.

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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    Wow, this is insane, even by Citroen concept-car-standards.
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    Image of Forgetful - GT Junkie Forgetful - GT Junkie
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    I swear that's the front of an early 90's Integra...
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    05/10/09

    @Forgetful:
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/10/09

    @Forgetful:


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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/10/09

    @FasterPussycow: Shit-wank.


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    Image of .357 .357
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    I would love to buy one of these and use it as my daily driver. I would actually want to get groceries because I would have a super awesome grocery getter. (By groceries I mean booze and pizza.)
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    I think I just fell in love.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    I remember seeing the Karin at the paris Auto Salon... I fell in love with it and really hoped Citroën would build this car.. of course I was a child then.. but I still think they should have build it then.. or build it now... I suppose I'm still a child.
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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    05/10/09

    @sos10: I remember coverage of this car in Road and Track; this would have been right about the time I had my first subscription at age 6. Do I remember correctly that the same year, Renault had a giant-sized 5 in their section of the Salon?
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    At least it doesn't look like a VW Beetle built by 8 year-olds from a metal shed kit..


    And it's still subtler than a Countach. The '80s were a particularly goofy decade to grow up in, I know that.


    I used to look at all the trapezoidal/ triangular/ wedgish cars running around then (from inside my parents' old Darts and Valiants) and think how silly they all looked.. but with the melted-blob styling that came afterwards, I can actually look at something like that '82 Datsun from yesterday and find it reasonably attractive.. scary.

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    Image of jdoubleh jdoubleh
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    Seems M. Fiore got his inspiration from I.M. Pei
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    05/10/09

    @jdoubleh diesel halo edition: euh, Mitterand didn't even abolish the guillotine by then.. let alone tell Pei to design a pyramid.
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    05/10/09

    @sos10: Dang you for chopping my theory off at the shoulders. So sequencing was never my thing. @Plecostomus will never win COTD... but has a: Dragoning with a car with so many razor sharp angles could prove injurious.
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    05/10/09

    @jdoubleh diesel halo edition: but if you would own the Karin, you should live in a pyramid.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    It's a stunning design, but obviously, not all that practical. It does have the advantage of only using flat pieces of glass, so that would keep the price down - particularly for the concept and prototypes.
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    Image of Ryan Bugaj Ryan Bugaj
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    Look at the bluish car in the background shot of the Karin rear clip (fourth row, first column). I'd swear that looks a lot like a proto-Prius.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/10/09

    @Ryan Bugaj: I like the breadvan next to it - it doesn't look so much like a Pulsar NX wagonback, but it sure gives off the same vibe.


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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/10/09

    @FasterPussycow: My friend's Z32 has the gear shift knob from a Pulsar NX! Wasn't a wagonback, though. How many of those did they make, and damnit why wasn't I informed?!
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    Image of Nickyboy - cruising the Autobahn and listening to the Scorpions Nickyboy - cruising the Autobahn and listening to the Scorpions
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    The perfect car for the modern frenchman - one seat for you, one for your wife and one for your girlfriend. Is there room for a case of wine?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/10/09

    @nickyboy: The French have a saying: Marriage is so difficult, it takes three people to make it work.
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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    05/10/09

    In reply to Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
    So many of the 80's concept cars had that retro-futuristic theme. You can tell every decade by the "Futuristic" interpretations. The 50's future had tail fins, the 60's were mod designs, the 70's were shaded in pastel colors (Mauve comes to mind), and the 80's had these very sharp creases, that melted into oval blobs.
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