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Trying too hard.
For a start it’s not clear if this is an homage to a distinctive design or an attempt to use the 2000GT as the basis for a new car design.
If you assume the former then some designers will try too hard to take a classic and reinvent it so it’s “their own”. If you took this reinterpretation and removed all the extraneous folderol’s what would it look like?
Can you see the original proportions and signature design features or has it just become bland - could have come from anywhere intended for any manufacturer?
In this instance I would be inclined to ask the designer to go back to first principals. Cartoonists have an uncanny ability to highlight the really original and distinctive features of a person. Great designers can reduce car design the same way.
BMW is the Hofmeister kink, Porsche the roof and window line of a 911, Land Rover the flat top fenders/wings. To modernize these designs you don’t need to do much, and that shows the skill of the designer in advancing the design with restraint. It’s one line that defines the identity of the car.
What would the equivalent look like for the 2000GT? Front fascia? Fender/Wing line? Rear side window curve? What’s the minimum you can do to recognize the design but also make it feel 21st century?
What a challenge!
My weak spot for Japanese cars
that is one swanky hakosuka
2000 GT is timeless.
Doesn’t match the original
Trying too hard.
