To be fair, journalists nowadays don’t always have the time to check absolutely everything and I suppose Mr Hetzner was told by someone “oh, it’s an Asian word” and he didn’t look it up.

Interesting translation problem. The German news items on the Taycan say it is of “orientalisch” (not “asiatisch”) origin. Now, according to Wiktionary (my italics):

That was fascinating, thank you. Hugely informative.

Fascinating what you say about the Norden sights. However, it is inaccurate to say that the Allies “couldn’t do anything” until they captured a functioning device.

This was one of those very Nazi ideas where things like vacations and cruises would be run by a governmental agency, which you would think would suck the fun out of pretty much everything in favor of setting up scenes of blonde people cavorting in verdant fields.

So, Mr Bradley... the 206/246 Dino is “one of the most under-appreciated designs from Pininfarina”? Really? By whom? Since when? (also, no mention of Fioravanti? Or Paolo Martin’s Dino Berlinetta Competizione? Or Brovarone’s 365P Berlinetta Speciale?)

Mr Bradley is probably alluding to the optional wings with “spats”. Most buyers also ordered the 365 GTB/S seats (as in this case). A car with both options is usually called “Chairs and Flares”.

Correct. Mr Branwell states, however:

Because, in a way, it’s like “improving” the Mona Lisa. Perversely, part of the attractive of the Modulo was how unreal it looked, and knowing, precisely, that it was not a car, and not even a “drivable sculpture of a car” (as the Stratos Zero was). It was just a fabulous shape.

I’d seen those images before and I was wondering what the story is behind them. Any info?

This is one of the Z1 development mules:

Pininfarina’s Modulo “inspired” the Wingho Concordia II, a prototype that starred in Black Moon Rising, a film written (but no directed) by John Carpenter.

Paraphrasing the late, great Robert Hughes, the Stratos Zero is not a car - it is a sculpture of a car.

The Dome Zero is fine (I don’t dislike it), but it also happens to be a mish-mash of shapes, traits and themes previously seen, years before, in quite a few Italian thoroughbreds and dream cars.

I cannot recall whether it was the real one, but certainly a couple of fibreglass replicas were made for the filming.

What you state on the title must be true. I read years ago that Bertone drove the machine to the Turin Motor Show himself and literally left quite a few minor accidents in its wake (the other drivers on the road just could not stop staring at it).

I for one did not know about Petrány’s article, which unfortunately is too short. I think something must have happened in the sub-editing process, however: the Daily Telegraph hired Bertone, whose star designer at the time was Gandini. Pretty sure Petrány did not write it that way.

Exactly. Interestingly the Boomerang had huge doors with side glass panels that opened conventionally; the Tapiro, another, slightly earlier, ItalDesign effort, had gullwing doors but the lower sides were not glass (although the tops were!). Gandini’s Marzal had combined both ... years before.

Weren’t 964s notorious for having ignition trouble with the twin-plug system? If I remember correctly there is a little toothed belt that drives the second rotor. When the belts break or skip a tooth they can cause all kinds of rather serious problems.

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