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      12-12-2021, 09:07 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by snareman View Post
I agree with the sentence as it applies to a lot of their concept cars. "The 8 Series concept wasn't just a look ahead to the production car (which as per usual is nothing like as good looking as the concept)...
A car that comes straight out of a designer/design team's brain unfiltered will always look better than the production version.

Once engineers ("this does not work structurally"), safety regulations ("too much glass not enough pillar and these lights are illegal in 20 countries"), and the bean counters ("bending metal in this way costs us an additional $50...let's use the part from this other model and save $100") get a hold of a concept it ever rarely makes it to production in the same form.

Subaru is the biggest offender of showing off cars that would cost 3x more than whatever ends up in production.
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