"The Funny Thing Is That It DO Look Like A Phantom… Till A Phantom Pull Up."
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Jack Baruth
Published: October 15th, 2012
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Katt Williams once famously commented on the supposed resemblance between the Chrysler 300 and the better class of Anglo-German luxury cars, and in this image from The Smoking Tire‘s Matt Farah we see a similar confrontation: the Fusion meets an AM Rapide in Beverly Hills. What say you, TTACers? Imitation, inspiration, or idiocy?
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I was kind of looking back for the roots of the Aston Martin design language and found an interesting link. Take a look at this 1947 Alpha and compare it with this DB3. 1946 Alfa: http://goo.gl/vps3R 1952 DB3: http://goo.gl/OOkfy So you can see Aston has had inspiration from other auto makers as well. In fact, it's signature grill seems to have originated with Alfa.
I think the new Fusion looks great, finally saw one at the dealer last week. Although we can all "Monday Morning Quarterback" let's see how it goes over and check in with some sales numbers in a few months.
For a moment there I thought this was a story about one of those hand made Chinese copies that look pretty good until you get within ten feet. The Fusion is a great looking car, if you're going to imitate, an Aston Martin isn't a bad place to start.
I always feel Aston Martin V8 of 70s to 80s has borrowed the face from original Mustang.