Automoblox C9-S Berlinetta
I’ve got a set of three Automoblox (Red, Green and Blue) and people love them. Kids love them. I’ve set mine loose among kids as young as 2 and they can figure out how to pull them apart and put them together. I’ve brought them in to work and shown them to design students who enjoy the clearly painstaking simplicity that they have.
I’ve really got to get a brown one.
/via Automoblox
Saab 99
Did Saabs ever look normal? I think there’s a definite rightness to the 99. But normal?
/via Le Gang Blenheim’s La Promenade du Dimanche
Chevrolet Monte Carlo advertisement (1971)
I personally didn’t know about this generation of the Monte Carlo. This is rather beautiful — I also love the fact that the standard, most basic engine you could get on one of these, was a 5.7L V8.
Is it me, or is there a style of automotive advertising photography from the early 70s that’s got a real post-apocylptic feel?
I had a 1980 RX-7 (the one pictured is a 78 or 79) with the black interior and dark grey seats from a 1988 RX-7. It was much, much less friendly than this lovely caramel version.Mazda Savanna RX 7
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Coolcoolcool.
Wowowow.
(Source: crazyforcars)
Is brown really the next big car colour? -
Rob Hull at Which? Conversation:
When it comes to selecting car colour, brown is firmly at the bottom of my check list. But it appears manufacturers are pushing cocoa-coloured cars as the next fashion trend to take over from white. Are you sold?
/via @vickytnz and Stephen Westland
1987 Nissan ARC-X concept
It’s nagging at me, this Nissan. It reminds me of a more modern car, but I can’t place which one.
/via @owenready and carstyling.ru
1974 Peugeot 304
I’ve been sitting on this photo for ages, because I didn’t know what to say about it. The 304 seems like just a car. And then I realised that was the point.
1974 was the beginning of the Malaise Era, the ten years following the 1973 Oil Crisis. In the ‘States, Malaise cars are smaller than the previous decade, but are baroque, verging on rococo. European cars on the other hand, if this 304 is any indication, went the other way. Modernist, in that spare Villa Savoye way.
But do you think it’s sacrilegious to suggest that the 304 would look better with thin whitewalls?
Lancia Beta Spider
If I had a Lancia Beta Spider, its name would be Stavro Mueller.
/via Octane’s wonderful Specfinder
Toyota Publica van
Corollas are too mainstream. The Publica is pretty obscure. You probably haven’t heard of it.
/via Speedhunter’s coverage of the 2012 New Year Meeting. But sure to check out their full coverage.
