i find that interesting. to a non-car lover the esprit and lagonda might appear very similar but one is clean, simple and beautiful, the other is a mutation and better from the inside than out!
though i didnt think the 80's quattroporte was _that_ bad.
btw i hope everyone knows that quattroporte in italian means "four door". only they can make such a mundane phrase sound so romantic! haha
mind you MR2 didn't exactly leave much to the imagination...
"Oh Wow!" beats "Four-Dour", MPV, or Coupe as names, doesn't it?
Personally, I like the looks of it. The front may not be the best, but it works out nicely. The rear lights are just like Jaguar's XJ - copied by/from Hyundais. I honestly confuse those two when I see them.
The Quattroporte combines a huge presence with a real elegant and sporty look. There's just no other car I can think of that can match that. That makes the Quattroporte such a special and beautiful car in my opinion.
To all people who thinks it looks like a Hyundai: Where did it go wrong? (no offence)
I think it's the other way around - the Hyundais were designed to look awefully close to the Jaguar XJ - and the Maserati is similar to that one.
I think you hit the spot of the Quattroporte - Presence. If I walked down the street and saw this:
I'd say "Wow!". It's got good proportions, with the exception of the front grille - but even that one works well from different angles. Definetely better than, say, the BMW 6-series.
Yet, unlike other similar cars, it looks at home just as much when on a twisty road, unlike, say, a Jaguar (XK are an exception!), which looks far more "at home" cruising the occupants slowly on a wide stretch of road.
Looks fake to me, the reflections just below the rearest window isn't quite right. The metalwork stretched around that window also scream 'stretched in Photoshop'
(no offence)
