Well, as an American car designer living in Europe, I can understand where you're coming from, but I find this to be a bland Chinese-targeted meh-mobile (once the ridiculous chrome is removed). It doesn't have any of the sense of occasion of a classic Lincoln, and also seems to have tossed most brand heritage out the…

Not sure I agree on this direction, but it's hardly the point. I know they were never sold in the EU, but you'd be surprised how many cars make their way over here anyway. Funny enough, a lot of incredibly shit Yank tanks from the '70s and '80s show up on Dutch roads.

It's an obscure marque here because they've been utterly awful cars for more than 30 years.

Fracking hell, there's a repurposed Cylon as a center console!

They must've forgotten that they were doing a new Lincoln Continental, because this is clearly a knock-off of a Bentley Continental. Silly mistake that you would have expected someone to notice before the car was finished.

We (Car Design Research) worked in the early stages with UsTwo to develop this idea. The main reasoning behind it is not because we hate analog gauges (we don't, we love them), but because we kind of hate the new digital ones. If you've never seen the horror that is the La Ferrari's gauge cluster, I recommend you find…

The livery is shit, I'm sorry Raphael. It's messy, airbrushy, and looks like both the new Force India (they couldn't have known) and the old HRT (they should have known). I didn't expect or want a retro Marlboro livery, but I'd hoped for something modern and iconic instead of a sloppy semi-nostalgic mashup.

Could be, but regardless I'm surprised to see it closed off when others use that area so extensively for aero pass-through. You'd also think with the engine in front it would need serious cooling too, which we don't see, so maybe it's because it's being funneled through the massive tunnels or maybe they've got…

What I find intriguing is the area behind the front wheels and leading into the A-pillar. While most LMP cars have been heading to an almost completely disconnected "pontoon" wheel arch, the Nissan appears to be (from the angles provided) a solid block.

You can thank Flavio Manzoni and Marco Tencone for that design. Both, obviously, have gone on to bigger and better things (Manzoni at Ferrari and Tencone at Maserati/Alfa).

I imagine this has everything to do with their desire to be seen as a more premium "luxury" brand in the US. This kind of motorsport (RallyCross/rally) doesn't target their desired customer base in any way (being a young male demographic), so it makes sense. In Europe and other parts of the world WRC is seen as a…

There's actually good science that shows that open offices are bad, because apparently humans can't tune out other people speaking, so we end up perpetually distracted. Cubes can also be bad, but a well laid out cubicle farm is almost always preferable to create a productive work environment.

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Hey, as one of those vitriol-spouting Prequel/Lucas haters who saw the original in a drive-in, I agree that not using the numbers adds credibility.

In fact, Citroën has announced the DS spin-off already, first in the spring, then again at the (pre-show) launch of the DS Divine concept.

And bring some fucking names back. Alphanumerically named Cadillacs are forgettable, me-too, and evoke precisely zero positive sentiment.

The tall gentleman with a shaved head seen in several images is none other than Lowie Vermeersch, former design director at Pininfarina and current independent designer in Turin (http://www.granstudio.com/). It seems that perhaps his bond with Jim was stronger than Pininfarina's, and there's no doubt in my mind that…

I think the Duster is a better-looking car than the CX-5, so no offense intended. My point was more that the production DS-Whatever is rather plain in all aspects other than the front grill area and lacks the dynamism that made the original Wild Rubis look, well, wild.

So Maté, can we get a Jalopnik vote on who owes who a beer in Paris? I'm not convinced the DS 6WR is the exciting SUV that Citroën promised, but I'm happy to admit that their design team is doing a lot of things right these days—though my vote goes more for the C4 Cactus than this!

But who wins the bet?

I'd say they certainly got closer than I expected, but the final result looks like a Dacia Duster with the Wild Rubis nose, rather than the fully sextastic concept (still something to be pretty happy about).

I think Jerry's completely right on this one. The fact is that the P1 is not a case of form following function but rather nearer to a pure styling exercise.