Found a couple of flaws in your logic

I’m seeing the evolution of a Rally Fighter, and I don’t know if I love it or hate it. Part of me thinks this is why automotive design needs more artists from other mediums, and part of me thinks this is why those artists need to stay out of it. In that regard, I guess Abloh succeeded. Good art often divides its…

By that benchmark, is any original car possible? Sleek sportscars, electric cars with LEDs, city cars with quirky doors, luxury cars with wall-to-wall cowpeel and a champagne fridge: Everything has been done before. In such a general analysis, nothing can be original now (unless it’s completely random and useless,…

what is original to you? Gimme an example plz

“vulgar parody”

• It looks like a collision between Mad Max and Maybach

It’s like he took this Bentley:

Going against the grain here, I.....kind of like it? It’s wildly impractical, but you wouldn’t be buying a maybach for practicality anyway, and it certainly stands out. But trying to see anything around that hilariously long hood would be an exercise in futility.

It’s both hideous and alluring at the same time. It should be remembered that this car is a design exercise, not even a “real” concept car. However, as a design exercise it serves to spur Mercedes’ next generation of vehicles.

Unfortunately, this unholy Chinese thing is landing in the Philippines sooner than later...

By then you will watch these sad Filipino auto journo’s will gush and feel tingly at this ghastly thing as if the Golf R or the Arteon has arrived.

(Which the Philippines will never get ANY Golf, no TDI, no GTI, no GTD, and…

I still consider any car with LED taillights as being a pretty modern phenomenon. But in the last 10 years or so, LED lights have gotten so much better. We went from designs like this, where you could see every “dot” of LED:

I am still patiently waiting for Mazda Furai tail lights to become common

Oh, for sure, but as I mention above, trying to have an exhibit with landmark cars of the industry and avoiding any Japanese cars just seems lazy, though overall their haphazard selection of cars seems like they pulled them all out of a 1960's time capsule and then bought a Smart and found a race car. IMO the Cisitalia…

I never said to discount European influence, only that if we focus 100% on it, we lose an insurmountable amount of automotive history. Toyota is the world’s largest automaker. It’s a disservice to the industry not to mention the Japanese in a car exhibit, period.

and it should be regarded as any less because of that? as if the Italians and the Germans and the French and the British and the Swedes didn’t all copy each other...

I never said you must accept it, only that the Japanese have often prioritized manufacturability and engineering over hand-crafted artisanship in their cars, and that there is beauty in it.

I believe that this is a long-held prejudice by Euro-centric motoring enthusiasts whose rejection has surfaced in the form of the modern JDM movement and the like. While we haven’t directly tackled it, the interpretation of recent Lexuses and Hondas as ‘exceedingly ugly’ are no doubt somewhat of a misunderstood…

I think I saw Freddy Tavarish on a plane heading to the Philippines for his next project car...

1) unless the smuggler has already gotten paid - any competent smuggler would probably have asked for an upfront fee

You could tax the sale at auction. You’d get the sale price plus the tax, which is more than the amount you’d get for crushing them.