[TR] A so-called 'Design Study'?

[Wbeech@flash.net]

Surely it is one of those clever disguise efforts like Detroit does when road testing new models.  If not, it's mud ugly. 
Bill B

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On Oct 15, 2016, at 1:51 PM, George Richardson <gpr at key-men.com> wrote:

Is that a Rolls Royce or the Batmobile?
George Richardson
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1957 Triumph TR3
1961 Jaguar Mark 2
1975 Triumph TR6
1997 Land Rover Discovery
> On 10/15/2016 10:15 AM, John Macartney wrote:
> I'm not much good at attaching pictures to files so maybe this won't go
> through?
> As we all know, BMW now owns both the Riley and Triumph names and the
> manufacturing rights. It also owns what was once known in the UK as Rolls
> Royce (Car Division) and since it passed into BMW ownership, the company has
> been producing a so-called Rolls Royce car which has about as much visual
> appeal as any of the WW2 concrete German blockhouses still found throughout
> the north coast of France as part of Adolf Hitler's much acclaimed 'Atlantic
> Wall'.
> This latest design study (pic attached - hopefully) to emerge from the Land
> of the Hun (or even from the UK based rolls Royce factory) defies belief
> that the former 'grace' of line that was (nearly always) the hallmark of
> this erstwhile British company, has clearly gone for ever. 
> If BMW in its infinite wisdom ever decides to resurrect either/and/or the
> Riley and Triumph names and launches car that are so tasteless and abhorrent
> as what it's played around with for Rolls Royce, we can all be certain that
> the once noble names of Riley, Rolls Royce and Triumph will have been
> prostituted for ever. But in my view there's nothing coming out of Audi,
> Benz, BMW or VW that called ever be called visually pleasing and that's why
> I've made it clear that when I die, I'd be far happier to be taken to church
> in a wheelbarrow or pulled on a horse drawn farm cart than ever be put in a
> hearse that has German origins. 
> 
> Jonmac
> 
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