WAIT! Apartheidboi's #Wankpanzer #IncelCamino isn't even an original fever dream and it's based on this fugly Fiat?!?!

"the first 1:1 model of the Diamante, a “inhabitable” car that Gio Ponti had conceived in 1953, was made for the Grand Basel exhibition. A first, larger proposal was based on the Alfa Romeo 1900, but a smaller one had also been proposed to Fiat. However, time and priorities led in other directions, and the Diamante remained on paper."
https://www.domusweb.it/en/from-the-archive/2024/07/10/the-car-designed-by-gio-ponti-from-domus-archive.html

cc: @drahardja

Gio Ponti’s car: Domus and Fiat in a “postponed” encounter

<span>The Turin-born brand turns 125. A long history that has also crossed paths with <i>Domus</i>, in developing a car conceived by Gio Ponti but never realised: an encounter told by Roberto Giolito, inventor of the Multipla and the new 500.</span>

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"As for the interior, the Cybertruck is as barren as most other Tesla interiors. I got a big-ass touchscreen, a fighter pilot steering wheel and little more. Tactile pleasures were nonexistent. No buttons. No switches. I felt like I was driving around in an unfurnished apartment."
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/drew-magary-cybertruck-review-sf-19561381.php

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https://mastodon.social/@drahardja@sfba.social/112760002534319277

#Wankpanzer #IncelCamino #Cybertruck #Fiat

@blogdiva @drahardja
It's pretty ridiculous that people are paying luxury prices for a car that has no luxury features and doesn't *feel* good.

They should be mad that this is what Tesla expects them to settle for.

@blogdiva @drahardja
Also...

>>Children stopped and pointed. Strangers gave me the finger.... Another motorist pulled up alongside me and said, “I just had to stop to laugh at you.”

Wonderful.

@blogdiva

“Any problem you have with the truck’s controls is strictly because you’re a n00b. Only our shrewdest, most waterlogged minds can master such a visionary piece of machinery.”

I like this white man’s prose.

@blogdiva @drahardja I _think_ it drew more inspiration from the 1979 Alfa Romeo Bulldog concept, seen here.

https://hiconsumption.com/motors/best-concept-cars/

@blogdiva @drahardja some architects have this uncanny attitude of knowing it all and being quite brazen with their design solutions, specially if the product falls outside of their discipline.

This fugli Fiat proposal it’s a fine example of that.

Cc @burritojustice #incelCamino