>Aston Martin made this>In 1989What the hell was going on with Aston during that time?
>>28655758Cocaine.
And then the next year they released this>that rear endHonestly what the fuck aston
>>28655758>What the hell was going on with Aston during that time?Probably whatever was also going on with Jaguar. Both brand's sports cars at the time dated back to the early-mid '70s but with some facelifts thrown on, so they were all rather frumpy looking by 1989.
>>28655762my cocaine
>>28655758>Nice Mustang, bro!
>>28655758Europeans really wanted a mustang and it took ford until the S550 to finally listen. The mustang is an exotic design over there. One could even pass it off as Luxury and Aston Martin did.
>>28655897>The mustang is an exotic design over thereSo that's why the new BMW 8 Series resembles a Mustang from most angles
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>>28655758>First made in 1977They were trying to make up for the failure that was the Lagonda by using a high performance version of that drivetrain to make "Britain's First Supercar."
>>28655897>and it took ford until the S550 to finally listendoes anyone actually know the real reason we didn't export midsize v8 cars to them?finnland bought our shit and loved it.
>>28655758OPs pic is a cabrio of a warm over of my pic. That was from 69 and I'm pretty sure '65 is when the first ones were made.
>>28656255>metal enginePretty crazy that we will never have anything remotely like this ever again because the modern male does not open the hood
>>28656463You are now aware that my wagon mogs a Mclaren F1 to 30mph.Stick it up your bum Doug.
>>28655780Sweet Christ I forgot how dreadful these are
>>28655917Bro every car in a given vehicle class looks the same in 2025
>>28656467especially sad given how good the coupe looks.
>>28656471Ford Capri anyone. I've seen new Mustangs but WTF.
>>28655767I kinda like it.
>>28656290Prohibitive local legislation most probablyOr fuel consumption-related stereotypes as well as serf mentality in historically more developed parts of the continent (big carriages with lots of horses are for the aristocrats), while Finns couldn't care less.
It's amazing how far behind are the US in some automotive technology. Not some nanny or green bullshit, but helpful stuff like headlights or mirrors.
>>28656760Our roads are mid sized at the end of the day. Anything larger than small to medium doesn't fit unless you're prepared to ba an asshole every day.Sad but true.
>>28656839>Our roads are mid sized at the end of the day.Read the previous post, retard:>does anyone actually know the real reason we didn't export midsize v8 cars to them?"Big carriages with lots of horses" are being compared to cars like the one pictured with lots of cylinders that's sligtly larger and maybe a bit less practical than a compact 4-pot cuckback. Midsize yet still considered by Europeons to be something only an aristocrat is allowed to own. Can't get rid of the ages of serfdom ingrained into the minds and culture that easily I guess.>Anything larger than small to medium doesn't fit unless you're prepared to ba an asshole every day.A fucking Audi A8 has the same footprint as a Ford Crown Victoria, or a Chevy Tahoe.
>>28656290Yes:>BMW made a 1600cc e46 out of their regular 1800cc because of taxation on higher displacement:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_N42#N40
>>28656333How hard can it be to just rip off the plastc cover?
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>>28656765>Posts the same side mirror>From LHD and RHD vehicleIt's funny because if you post the right side mirror the roles are reversed.
>>28658240In Euro cars both mirrors aren't flat.
>>28658244And they don't have to carry a warning that things may be closer than they appear etched onto the convex glass. Because Euros aren't stupid and ruled by fear of their lawyers
>>28656290The UK already had domestic cars which could be bought for cheap with V8s, and by the 80s their six cylinders and turbo 4s were basically at the power ratings of American small block V8s. Continental Europe had displacement taxesThe good American cars in the 60s wouldn’t have sold in Europe because financially it was in ruins. If you could afford a good car you weren’t going to buy an American one, because the best European cars of the 60s were better. By the time regular Europeans could afford regular American cars, regular American cars were so bad that Americans had also stopped buying them
>>28655758>Jaguar made this>In 1996Funniest thing is watching old Top Gear. And they were basically mandated to shill the dying British car industry. When Jeremy reviewed the Mitsubishi 3000GT and FD RX7 at the end he said he would pick a Jaguar XJS over those two.
>>28656290Back in the 80s you didn't have to pay car tax on vans. And a Caprice Wagon was so big that you could keep the rear seats and still get it classified as a van. Then our government eventually caught up to that unfortunately and now even buying vans requires you to pay a car tax.
>>28658263>Because Euros aren't stupid and ruled by fear of their lawyersAnon, I...It's literally American (and bugmen) warning. European cars don't have it (source: I have a European car).>The phrase "objects in (the) mirror are closer than they appear" is a safety warning that is required[a] to be engraved on passenger side mirrors of motor vehicles in many places such as the United States, Canada, Nepal, India, and South Korea.
>>28658296I'm European, you bloody idiot. You are violently agreeing with me.
>>28656290>does anyone actually know the real reason we didn't export midsize v8 cars to them?Because you couldn't be arsed to make right-hand drive versions?
>>28658275>When Jeremy reviewed the Mitsubishi 3000GT and FD RX7 at the end he said he would pick a Jaguar XJS over those two.I still would. Especially the rotary smoke machine
>>28658269>and by the 80s their six cylinders and turbo 4s were basically at the power ratings of American small block V8sno, by the 1980s the factory power numbers went down.like for example in either 79 or 1980 ford introduced the 255, the smallest v8 ever during the faggot "fuel crisis".people were so dissapointed with it around 1982 or 1983 they just said fuck it and brought back the 302.Caddilac and GM had some simmilar bullshit going on like the 8 6 4 Caddilac v8 which was early compuerized cylinder deactivation, it was dogshit and also a bomb, caddilac and olds were also making FUCKING DEISEL ENGINES using GAS V8 BLOCKS which is fucking RETARDED, they were also notoriously bad and slow.fuck knows or cares what gay shit chrysler was doing in the 80s because the kei car was literally a cuck-cage on wheels.aND thEN tHERes AMC(he's dead.)american factory hp numbers in that decade were just abysmal, the only saving grace is that they still sold cars designed for a v8 and the blocks could atleast be yanked out for ones that can breathe or sent to the machine shop to make power, I mean you literally had shit making 170-200hp that could be sent to the machine shop, piss off 1,800-2,300 dollars and it turns around and makes like 350-400
>>28655803I very much appreciate this post
>>28655758Looks like a '73 mustang.
>>28655803No one involved in Aston Martin is Cockney like him, though.
