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

[ptegler]

...concept by a client, built by Rolls
self driving 'visions'

Paul Tegler ptegler at verizon.net www.teglerizer.com
On 10/15/2016 4:24 PM, John T Nichols wrote:
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> https://www.google.com/search?q=rolls+royce+design+study&biw=1920&bih=1001&tbm=isch&imgil=lZX5b_rLoPo3yM%253A%253BjcFr8fwLa3RwTM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fspanish.fansshare.com%25252Fgallery%25252Fphotos%25252F11670935%25252Frolls-royce-design-study%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=lZX5b_rLoPo3yM%253A%252CjcFr8fwLa3RwTM%252C_&usg=__f-3Bcg5KdL_Un4JGxEJgxi-kAek%3D&ved=0ahUKEwjiibrS0d3PAhUF7B4KHaG1BS8QyjcIJw&ei=CZACWKLhBIXYe6Hr 
> lvgC#imgrc=lZX5b_rLoPo3yM%3A
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>
> Tis real and here are several more.
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> John T Nichols
> '58 TR3A TS32093L O
> '86 TVR 280i
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> Frank Fisher wrote:
>> that is surly some kind of joke?
>> they type of joke you would find on sniff petrol site.
>> they cant really be thinking that is any any way nice.
>>
>>
>> flabbergasted
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* John Macartney <john.macartney at ukpips.org.uk>
>> *To:* triumphs at autox.team.net
>> *Sent:* Saturday, October 15, 2016 7:15 AM
>> *Subject:* [TR] A so-called 'Design Study'?
>>
>> 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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