Re: eRetro French cars
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2026 9:36 pm
Yeah, I guess with the onslaught of the relatively generic cheap Chinese cars, it actually makes sense for European car companies with long histories to leverage on it and resurrect their iconic designs from the past. That's something at least the Chinese manufacturers can't do.Swervin_Mervin wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2026 2:08 pm I'm not sure it will make it to production. I think that this and the 8 Gordini concept are purely design exercises on the underlying new A110 EV platform.
There seems to be a French charm offensive to counter the influx of Chinese products. Germans appear to still be stood still.
There obviously was massive hype around the ID Buzz, but VW fucked that one up by making it too expensive, right?
If you go radically different like Jaguar have, almost everyone hates itMito Man wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2026 2:10 pm Isn’t it strange that all of these nice designs for cars of the future are based on designs of cars of the past.