sidney raper wrote
>OK. Time for my not too humble opinions.
>
>BMW Z3 - Love the Roadster - especially the rearching of the rear fenders to
>give it a more rounded look - hate the coupe - looks like a CRX with a BMW
>front clip - yick!
I kinda like the Z3 coupe, prefer it to the Z3roadster in fact.
Maybe it's the funky TVR proportions, or the overall hunkering toad look
that I find strangely appealing. Also a little reminiscent ot the
Cheetah (see link)
http://www.ohioconcours.com/2001/r-01-1595.jpg
>
>350Z - could care less - I have never been much of a fan of the Z car. It
>represents a market that I have never been enamored with - the GT coupe. To
>me, a sports car will ALWAYS be a roadster of some kind.
Maybe the 350Z will have more impact in person, but from pictures it
has those generic rubber sanding-block proportions. The Z3 coupe at
least has a shape, odd as it is. We seem to be returning to the 80s when
cars distinguished themselves from one another with geegaws and nernies
applied to the surface. (If the Eclipse and Z are typical)
The Roadster is a kind of odd- looking beast as far as that goes, with
it's narrow rear end and vistigial fins. Don't get me wrong, i love
these cars, but from certain angles they look to be designed by
committee. Yet it somehow works ;^)
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