I was about to dump this into the dumpster or even The Telegrams, but why not create its own thread so it doesn't just fall into the abyss after a couple of hours?
I feel like ranting about a certain car right now. Or at least it's design. You do the same in this thread - post cars and designs, where you think they are not as good or as pretty as most people say. Let's have discussions!
Possibly unpopular opinion: While I really like the car (and its engine!) for what it is, I feel like the Carrera GT isn't really a pretty car. Pretty as in racecar & form-follows-function-pretty, but not beautiful to the eye per se as it probably should, being the supercar that it is.
Obviously one has to think about the car back in the day, not now. But I never really liked the rough cut off from the roof to the engine. I also think, the headlight covers are just a way of somehow protecting the xenons, as just sticking them onto the body like Pagani did with their Zonda is un-Porsche-like. The first gen LED tail lights look somewhat aftermarket-like. And while I love 996's, the interior is a bit too ... cost-cutting for my personal taste. All in all, I feel like there's quite a lot of late-rad-era-90s-design in the CGT, more so than early 2000s car or supercar design.
Though the fact that you're that close to the (wooden!) shift knob is quite cool, and iirc the high center console is also a structural part of the car's tub.
It is surely a very interesting car design and an approach, that has never been seen before (it could've been a random supercar design), but I feel like the 918 is the car design which Porsche always had in mind for the CGT but never achieved back in the day.
There's no hard cutoff after the passenger cell, as the combination of engine and exhaust is made to fit snug on the roof line, giving it the (again) racecar-like appearence with its two humps. And the retracteable rear spoiler doesn't just stick out, but actually has some aesthetics to it. Even the somewhat round headlight covers seem to have more of a design purpose as with this car Porsche premiered their four-point-LED-DRLs (whatever you call those).
In certain positions, the CGT can look really awkward in my opinion:
I feel like ranting about a certain car right now. Or at least it's design. You do the same in this thread - post cars and designs, where you think they are not as good or as pretty as most people say. Let's have discussions!
Possibly unpopular opinion: While I really like the car (and its engine!) for what it is, I feel like the Carrera GT isn't really a pretty car. Pretty as in racecar & form-follows-function-pretty, but not beautiful to the eye per se as it probably should, being the supercar that it is.
Obviously one has to think about the car back in the day, not now. But I never really liked the rough cut off from the roof to the engine. I also think, the headlight covers are just a way of somehow protecting the xenons, as just sticking them onto the body like Pagani did with their Zonda is un-Porsche-like. The first gen LED tail lights look somewhat aftermarket-like. And while I love 996's, the interior is a bit too ... cost-cutting for my personal taste. All in all, I feel like there's quite a lot of late-rad-era-90s-design in the CGT, more so than early 2000s car or supercar design.
Though the fact that you're that close to the (wooden!) shift knob is quite cool, and iirc the high center console is also a structural part of the car's tub.
It is surely a very interesting car design and an approach, that has never been seen before (it could've been a random supercar design), but I feel like the 918 is the car design which Porsche always had in mind for the CGT but never achieved back in the day.
There's no hard cutoff after the passenger cell, as the combination of engine and exhaust is made to fit snug on the roof line, giving it the (again) racecar-like appearence with its two humps. And the retracteable rear spoiler doesn't just stick out, but actually has some aesthetics to it. Even the somewhat round headlight covers seem to have more of a design purpose as with this car Porsche premiered their four-point-LED-DRLs (whatever you call those).
In certain positions, the CGT can look really awkward in my opinion: