Luigi Colani's improbable designs

Rhinocrates said:
The naïve might believe Colani's claim to be inspired by aerodynamics. He was 'inspired' perhaps but it has to be applied.
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Curves don’t always make for the best aerodynamics.

Lots of very small coupes have flowing lines—but a simpler wedge like the TR-7 or Honda Prelude might actually have a lower drag coefficient despite looking like a slab.
 
martinbayer said:
To me (and I realize that I am hopelessly dating myself here) the Citroen DS is one of the most aesthetic cars ever designed. I still dream of dropping a purebred US muscle car engine and tranny in it and max this puppy out... Koenigsegg, here we come :)!
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That would be a lot of fun!

Drop a Corvette LS or LT into it, add turbochargers, hang on!
 
Scott Kenny said:
That would be a lot of fun!

Drop a Corvette LS or LT into it, add turbochargers, hang on!
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In the French movie Fantomas from 1964 (wow, over six decades ago!) they had a flying version of a purebred Citroën DS - I'll leave it to any interested/motivated readers to track down associated videos...
 
"Je t'aurais Fantômas, JE T'AURAIS !!" De Funes made so many movies from 1963.

My favorite is Oscar : mad, mad, mad.

How I learned to drive De Funès totally crazy, with a perverse whack-a-mole game of three suitcases: one with 60 million francs, another one with 60 million francs of jewels, and the third one from the maid.
It's a masterpiece, the script a finely tuned clockwork with just one objective: getting De Funès erupt like a freakkin' indonesian supervolcano.

"Now open that suitcase, and you will see I'm not that crazy."

(dumbarse guy pulls out maid underwear from the suitcase. De Funes hits the roof.)

"AAARGH ! AAAaaaAAaaaaaaaaRGH !!!! Je suis zinzin ! Je suis zinzin. JE-SUIS-ZIN-ZIN !!"
 
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