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I think the hood and wheels are a bit declasse’.. but I think it adds some aggression to the car.
What’s wrong with it? Nothing’s wrong with it! This is what the Panamera should have looked like.
This “drawing” of a Panamera, though, ignores the reality of the car’s ungainly proportions.
I’m guessing “Mistrale” is some tuner?
that is definitely a nice RX-8.
I think it’s actually a major improvement to the look of the Panamera (admittedly, not that hard to do.)
But the more aggressive front fascia (maybe lose the hood nostrils) and tinted windows/roof and side chrome delete give the car some edge, and lessen the bloated walrus look.
I’d go further, and maybe add a (usually hated) rear spoiler, to see if that helps disguise the car’s hunchback.
This is a horrible use of Photoshop.
I agree with Tommy about the horrible use of P’shop.
Things I see:
1) Driver side from and rear wheel are identical in size (Depth of field not accounted for)
2) Drive side tires stick out from body work. If the suspension has any travel, it’d be about a millimeter unless you want dents in the body and gashes in your tires.
3) Passenger front tire appears to be floating because of the generic shadow.
The no sidewalls / no suspension travel combination looks a bit uncomfortable on real roads………..
It looks like one of those animated Chevron cars they use in the Techron commercials.
Toyota wants back the design for their Celica derived sedan.
nice beefy tires, i like that. This car is like a dorky muscle guy, who actually works out for health reasons, but u cant take him to the broadway opening cause he might actually talk and u’d be embarassed. Fun if no ones around tho.
I like it. Although I agree about the problem of no room for suspension travel. And maybe they could give it a different name. The Mistral (I dont think there’s an “e” on the end) is an ill wind that blows no good in the south of France. Like the fohn in Germany. OF course, if it’s a Porsche, and they wanted the wind motif in the name, they should have named it the Fohn (rhymes with the first syllable of Peugeot).
Its about time they made the Pontiac Sunfire 4 door mimic the coupes rooflines and got rid of the grille, but its probably too late to save pontiac
http://www.canadiandriver.com/news/02images/02sema/sunfire_gxp.jpg
What you’d expect from a teenager doodling inside his notebook while totally oblivious to the teacher going blah, blah, blah….
(With apologies to Jean Shepherd)
Yechhh! Folks, is this really any better than the Sebring sedan that was universally panned for having no particular styling theme, just a bunch of cobbled together styling cues…..signifying nothing?
the back is just as bad too
It looks like what happens when a Neon jumps the fence and mates with your Supra.
The photoshopping brought to mind that it was a character from Spongebob Squarpants.
That is a 2011 Poobaru. Odd that cribbing Legacy headlights and a SVX bootay would occur to a designer.
And I thought it was the 2011 Altima…
Conslaw, best laugh I’ve had in a month :-)
Just hope it was a SRT4 neon and turbo supra — that would be one mean mutt :)
The horror. The horror.
Do the folks at Gemballa honestly expect to lure people into spending a five-digit sum of dough on a pimpjob with these (ahem) “photos”? (The other ones on Autoblog are even worse.)
Oh, and the ineptly superfluous “e” at the end of “Mistrale” makes it that much more stylish. Like the Cimarrone. Or the Azteke.
So they’ve got traveling in a straight line covered; when is the “can actually turn left-or-right version coming out”?
What’s wrong? Lifting an old Maserati name (with an extra “e” for good measure) and gluing it on a Porsche maybe?
Hmmm…
It looks like the steroidal bastard love child of a 911 and a current generation Dodge Charger.
Sheeshhh, it’s really fugly. It’s just wonky lines and mismatched shapes and a stupid high beltline.
Bumblebee’s cousin!
Are we sure that this is not the new Sebring?
Surely this thread should have been called, “What’s Wrong With This Picture: It Was Only A Matter Of Time Edition.”
The car looks like the usual inverse relationship between money and sense is still holding true.