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The upper image is a 1970 drawing of the Porsche Tapiro concept car by its designer, the famed Giorgetto Giugiaro .  Its Wikipedia entry is here , and I wrote about it here .  The lower photo is one I took of my 1971 Porsche 914 that I wrote about here .  I wrote about the 914 design itself  here .  The Wikipedia entry for the Porsche 914 is here . The Tapiro was derived from the Porsche 914/6, the six cylinder Porsche-engined version of the 914 that otherwise was powered by a four-cylinder Volkswagen motor.  The designs are strikingly different, so I thought readers might be interested in seeing them compared.  Click on the images to enlarge. Gallery Side view of a Porsche 914/6, Mecum auction photo. Side view of the Tapiro. Diagram showing ket interior layout features and dimensions.  Wheelbase lengths are identical, but the overall length of the Tapiro is 4060 mm whereas the 914's is 3985.  The major difference is height, the 914 measuring 1230 mm and the Tapiro 1110 mm. A 1969

I confess that it took me a long time before I took Korean automobiles seriously.  I spent most of a year in South Korea in the early 1960s while in the Army.  In those days, the country was economically somewhat isolated and had done little more than patching up Korean War damage. This is a photo I took from Seoul's main railway station.  The cars are Japanese-made, the busses are Korean bodies placed on army truck chassis' -- and I am not sure about the hopsung vans' basis. Early Korean imports to the USA were not impressive, but Kia and Hyundai rental cars I've driven in recent years have been satisfactory.  (My personal cars over the last 15 years have been a Chrysler 300 and three Toyota RAV4s.) A large leap for the Korean industry, following the footsteps of Toyota's Lexus brand, is Hyundai's Genesis.  The subject of this post is the redesigned for 2021 Genesis G80 luxury sedan. Gallery The 2017 Genesis G80.  The Wikipedia entry above credits its design t

The 1932 Hupmobile (corporate Wikipedia entry here ) was an early project by pioneer industrial designer Raymond Loewy , and his first production automobile design.  I wrote about his Hupmobile work in general here . The present post features his 1932 design that was used on Hupp's more expensive line of cars.  According to the Wikipedia entry, by the late 1920s the company added models intended for what amounted to the upper-middle market segment and promoted them accordingly.  This was at the price of moving away from the clientele base that built the brand.  That resulted in diminished sales, a condition exaggerated by the Great Depression of the 1930s. For the 1932 model year Hupp marketed both the Loewy design and, for its lower price range, continuation of its previous design.  Examples of both are shown below.  Aside from photos taken when the cars were new, images are sourced for cars up for sale or auction. Gallery 1932 Hupmobile 216 Coupe This lower-priced Hupp used the p

The Chinese-built Buick Envision SUV has been restyled for the 2021 model year.   As of July 2020 when this post was drafted, the expectation for its appearance on the American market is early 2021.   Preliminary information from Car and Driver magazine can be found here and here . As I frequently mention, styling a SUV is more restricted by packaging and aerodynamic requirements than for most other types of vehicles.  The result is that SUVs from different manufacturers tend to look similar aside from ornamentation and superficial sheet meal sculpting. The Buick-furnished images below suggest that General Motors' stylists remain trapped along with SUV stylists in other firms. Gallery The openings below the headlight assemblies (are they real or fake?) and their relationship to the projected-forward grille area differ from the norm.  They also do not make for an attractive composition, being somewhat more aggressive than I think necessary.  Otherwise frontal design is tasteful in

General Motors' LaSalle (Wikipedia entry here ) was a "companion brand" to Cadillac .  LaSalles were marketed for model years 1927-1940.  They were originally slated for 1941, but management decided to drop the brand and expand the Cadillac line to make up for the loss of LaSalle. All that remains of the prospective 1941 LaSalle line are photos of LaSalle mockup models or prototypes.  Some of these are shown below along with images of comparable 1941 Cadillacs. Gallery 1941 LaSalle C-body sedan. 1941Cadillac 62 C-body sedan, Barrett-Jackson auction photo.  Aside from the grilles, the trim on these cars is similar.  Especially note the air vents on the side of the hood -- they occupy the same space, though their details differ slightly. Fastback LaSalle sedan, side view. 1941 Cadillac 61 Touring Sedan, for-sale photo.  Cadillacs and LaSalles shown here have three horizontal chrome strips abaft of their wheel openings.  The LaSalle's are wider and indented in their cent

The great Depression of the 1930s affected the Hudson Motor Car Company to the extent that, aside from its ill-fated 1953-54 Jet compact car, only two basic body series were used between 1936 and 1954.  That was when the company merged with Nash to form American Motors and the final Hudsons were based on Nash bodies. I wrote about 1936-1947 Hudsons and their facelifts here . The present post presents Hudson grille designs during 1948-1954 model year production of the second of those basic body series.  That was a period of seven model years during an era when General Motors, Ford and Chrysler tended to offer redesigned bodies every three or four years on average.  But Hudson did not have their financial resources and relied on facelifts longer than it should have for corporate longevity. Unless noted, images below are of cars listed for sale on the Internet. Gallery 1948 Hudson This was the debut grille design for the radically redesigned postwar Hudson line. 1949 Hudson - Mecum auct

Free Car Diagnosis || Car Diagnosis || Car Diagnosis Centre || Automobile school Free Car Diagnosis || Car Diagnosis || Car Diagnosis Centre Today I will discuused with you free car diagnosis process and car diagnosis   process report problems and solutions  Today we see a car which are totally under the water because car was garrege on the building basement and more than 2 days are full rain on this region and more cars are totally water clogged or hydrostatic  when this car was recoverd there have a lot's of problem on the car. example's this car removed by approximately 20 litres of engine oil with water mixed  and car starting problem ,mirror not working properly,car lighting system totally closed any light does not illuminated car ac not working,audio system totally damaged because water are in the circuit,car theft determine module are totally rusted,car cluster meter are not working properly ,car junction box and car ECM are totally damaged  First Free Car Diagnosis, Car

Not long ago while I was taking my daily walk in the town where I live (70 miles north of Seattle), I spotted an immaculate Dodge Viper.  Of course I whipped out my iPhone and took a few photos of it.  They are displayed below. Some background information on the 10-cylinder motor Viper is here .  They were produced from 1991 through 2017 with a hiatus 2011-2012. The Viper I saw was from the 2003-2007 generation -- I'll call it a 2005 model.  In addition to my photos below, I include images of examples from the first and final Viper generations for context.  My impression is that the 2003-07 Vipers had the cleanest design, but judge for yourself.  Click on the images to enlarge. Gallery 2005-Vintage Dodge Viper - Donald Pittenger Photos: Vipers had the traditional Dodge "crosshairs" grille bars. The styling feature common to all Vipers is the large, engine heat exhaust vent abaft of the front wheel opening.  Its details varied from one Viper generation to the next.  This a