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What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:01 pm
by scotta
was my first reaction to this...As i quickly checked it wasn't April 1st.
Full details -
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/feat ... D7J3zPzbeM
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:13 pm
by Jobbo
Is that finished? It looks very much like a disguised prototype where they really don't want you to see what it's going to look like for real.
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:14 pm
by mik
So is the Hipercar a hypercar?
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:17 pm
by ZedLeg
Looks like someone's tried to make a batmobile out of a Vauxhall Tigra
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:07 pm
by nuttinnew
Atom with a Smart Roadster body?
Won't somebody think of the JL;

Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:23 pm
by Mito Man
It looos more finished than other Aerial products
Gas turbine range extender
Electric
I’m ooot.
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:25 pm
by Ascender
ZedLeg wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:17 pm
Looks like someone's tried to make a batmobile out of a Vauxhall Tigra
Its like some sort of Max Power wet dream.
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 3:10 pm
by integrale_evo
Look like someone bought a crashed Elise and tried to fix it with mdf offcuts.
I was convinced it was some sort of windup / spoof at first.
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 3:42 pm
by duncs500
The drive train sounds relatively interesting, but it's no looker!
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:03 pm
by Beany
Was the gas turbine range extender not what that bloody lovely CX-75 concept going to use, before Jaguar lost their bottle?
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:05 pm
by duncs500
Beany wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:03 pm
Was the gas turbine range extender not what that bloody lovely CX-75 concept going to use, before Jaguar lost their bottle?
Yeah, that was the first place I remember seeing it.
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:52 am
by RobYob
duncs500 wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:05 pm
Beany wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:03 pm
Was the gas turbine range extender not what that bloody lovely CX-75 concept going to use, before Jaguar lost their bottle?
Yeah, that was the first place I remember seeing it.
Too hard to get that microturbine through emmisions due to length of warmup and "idle" AFAIK. So they then went down the conventional ICE+hybrid route before canning the lot because it was too heavy and they wanted to spend the money on the Gaydon Triangle amongst other stupid things.
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:53 am
by RobYob
And that Ariel is Fugly.
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 9:24 am
by ShockDiamonds
Saw this on Twitter earlier and my immediate thought was the front end and how is that allowed when rules these days mean front end design often looks a little ‘stuffed’. Presumably it’s related to their volumes?
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:26 am
by mik
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 11:42 am
by integrale_evo
Quite.
The whole thing is very odd.
Are we sure it’s not April 1st?

Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 1:34 pm
by Beany
RobYob wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:52 am
duncs500 wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:05 pm
Beany wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:03 pm
Was the gas turbine range extender not what that bloody lovely CX-75 concept going to use, before Jaguar lost their bottle?
Yeah, that was the first place I remember seeing it.
Too hard to get that microturbine through emmisions due to length of warmup and "idle" AFAIK. So they then went down the conventional ICE+hybrid route before canning the lot because it was too heavy and they wanted to spend the money on the Gaydon Triangle amongst other stupid things.
I suppose that would be more realistic than 'pussed out like a
bitch'
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:28 pm
by Ascender
scotta wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:01 pm
was my first reaction to this...As i quickly checked it wasn't April 1st.
The more I look at it, that view of the car is just utterly embarrassing. That looks like someone has knocked it up in their shed for their local soapbox race or Batman (Michael Keaton-era) cosplay.
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 5:21 pm
by integrale_evo
Exactly, it’s just awful. Not even functionally ugly, just stupid and shit looking bodged together ugly.
They can talk all they like about the finished ones being real carbon and better put together, but if it’s going o be so much better why even bother with such a weird preview release of this thing?
Re: What the bastard fuck is that!!??
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 5:44 pm
by Rich B
I really don't understand how they got there, the atom and nomad look brilliant, yet this looks like a goths shoe.