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    Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    12/31/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    How about the Mercedes C111?


    [karakullake.blogspot.com]

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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    Oh, and no discussion of the BMW M1 is complete without mentioning the Andy Warhol Art Car version.


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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    That Mazda reminds me of something.


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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    One more Vector W8 Fun Fact: Andre Agassi owned an example in the '80s. That is until the factory bought it back from him (too many quality issues).
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    12/30/08

    @SundaySunday: Yes Agassi had one and it had issues, but what supercar of the era didn't?. Wiegert maintains that Agassi pulled a spoiled celeb and demanded delivery before the car was done, and ignored warnings not to try to hoon it until the technicians got all of the proper equipment installed (apparently it was short a radiator or two) and the final bugs worked out. Personally I think he should have told Andre to keep his shorts on and wait for the car to be finished, but money was always an issue, and I'm sure he needed Agassi's money to build more cars and do further development work.
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    12/30/08

    @Mike the Dog: Thanks for the detail on that. Very interesting.


    Yes, I loved me some Vector back in the day. The Agassi connection was something I remember reading in a car mag back then, but the article didn't go into any more detail than "he had one & they took it back".

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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    That Vector doesn't deserve to breathe the same air as the other cars on this list.


    That Alfa is an absolute design tour de force of the era. The Vector is just novelty.

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    12/30/08

    @Almostbanned: I think you've got it backwards. Although it wasn't produced in great numbers (supercars generally aren't), it was a production car. All of the other cars here are one-off prototypes or concept cars. Yes, I know that the Esprit, Countach, Stratos and E25 Turbo did, either directly or indirectly, lead to production models. The fact remains, though that the ones presented here are prototypes and show cars. And as I noted above, I've actually seen a W8 in the wild. Have you seen any of the others (not the production models that came later) outside of a museum?
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    12/30/08

    @Mike the Dog: No, you're right. But they didn't specify production or non production. Purely from a design standpoint, the Vector is horsey and unremarkable.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    12/30/08

    @Almostbanned: That is your opinion and as such I respect it. I disagree, however. In person it is anything but unremarkable. I'm not quite sure what you meant by "horsey".
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    "Add Bookmark". Thanks for the great list, guys. Many of my favorite designs are captured on this page.


    I spent lots of time back in middle-school drawing wedge shaped cars in the margins of my notebooks (esp. during geometry class. Thanks, straight-edge & compass.)


    As I've stated in earlier posts on the subject, I've owned a TR7 and Australian Capri, so my love for the wedge-car is well known. (If you squint, you could probably lump my Charger 2.2 in there as well.)

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    12/30/08

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    No Aston Bulldog? No Lagonda? Where's your sense of Jalopnik history?
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    12/30/08

    @b.borrman: Bulldog, yeah!


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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    Are the 1st gen MR2, and X1/9 not door stoppy enough?
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    12/30/08

    @SubyDrew: I second the first gen Mister Two!
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    Real cars....like real women....have curves.
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    12/30/08

    @SCROGGZILLA RAIDS AGAIN!!: Agreed. I like a lot of these cars (especially the Carabo) but it's hard to argue for straight-edge "origami" shapes when curves can be so much cooler. For an example, look at the Countach. It's outrageous and awesome, and I had a poster of one on my bedroom wall when I was seven. Then look at the Miura. It's still aggressive, outrageous, and generally unlike anything else on the road. But it's beautiful in a way that the Countach (and other later Lambos) simply can't match.
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    12/30/08

    @Armand Bengle: Bingo! For all the quasi-futuristic auto fashions of the wedge era, there is a timeless quility to school of auto design that immediately preceeded it (mid to late 60's) that seems, to me anyway, impervious to time.

    To me, Mr. Bengle, the Miura/Countach dynamic distills the difference between automotive "style" and "fashion".
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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    Not enough AMX/3.


    [www.supercars.net]

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    12/30/08

    @TylerE: I forgot about that one. It looks kinda like a Miura with AMC doorhandles.
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    Not even an honorable mention for the Fiero?


    Not even in the eraser shavings at the feet of your chair, huh?

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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    Hmmmm,
    Oh yeah


    Besides forgetting about the:
    Subbie XT
    [images3.fotki.com]


    Ya missed the boat on the Subbie SVX
    [www.milkmandan.org]


    Not to mention the Nissan PULSAR from the 1st gen.
    [cars.88000.org]

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    12/30/08

    @Accordforall: For that matter, you could also include the 2nd generation Pulsar, aka EXA. But good call on the XT.
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    12/30/08

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    Wow; learned something new today. I'd seen photos of the Modulo before, but never knew that it was a Ferrari/Pininfarina design. As cool as it is, dropping the silly belt & wheel skirts would make a huge difference.


    The Holden has to win the Most Likely To Skewer A Pedestrian award. Those corners look sharp!

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    12/30/08

    In reply to Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s
    Hmmm


    *Gets on my hands and knees* And thanks GOD / Jalopnik.. for putting this perfect post up!!


    This.. is design.


    This.. is beauty.


    This.. is the wedge.


    This.. IS WHY I COME TO JALOPNIK!


    That and posts about Miley FUCKIN CYRUS AND HER GOD DAMN NINJA FOUND GX570!!


    *BOWS DOWN TO THE MIGHTY JALOP*
    THANK YOU OH HOLY GOD!


    **PLAYS THE THEME SONG TO CHEERS**


    A place where it doesnt matter who you are, but WHAT YOU DRIVE!

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    12/30/08

    @Accordforall: Where everybody knows your handle!
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    12/30/08

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    Anybody else have a sudden unexplicable hankering for cheese?
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