Car lust of the day

Maserati Merak.

I saw one at a car show this morning (not that one but still). DO WANT.

Why can't new cars have such a timeless look to them?

jimbob_racing wrote: Why can't new cars have such a timeless look to them?

Nihilism.

They do, the only problem is the timeless looks are the same timeless looks from the 60's (charger, challenger, mustang, camaro, Ford GT, Mini...)

15-years ago when I was working at Autozone, I had a guy come in wanting to browse through our master cylinders. I assured him I could save him time & look up the number, when he informed me it was for a Maserati Merak & wasn't in our system.

He brought it back later & let me check it out. Very cool car, and he picked it up for what seemed like a good deal ~$15k or so.

He said he also had a Testarossa that he'd picked up for not quite twice that, but I never got to see that one.

"Why can't new cars have such a timeless look to them?"

Many cars we consider to be timeless/classic designs didn't always sell all that well when they were new or they were aimed at a very narrow segment of the car buying population so they didn't have to appeal to large numbers of buyers. Ford/Mercury probably classed the Pantera as a sales failure in the '70s because they didn't sell all that many, certainly not as many as they hoped to sell. And the other side of the coin is that some of the earliest Ferraris were actually kind of ugly...even new.

Do you ever wonder what a Toyota or Nissan might look like if someone like Bertone or Pininfarina styled it? Or even Zagato?