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.
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.)
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.
@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?
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.
@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.
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.
@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?!
Nickyboy - cruising the Autobahn and listening to the Scorpions was starred
Nickyboy - cruising the Autobahn and listening to the Scorpions was unstarred
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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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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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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