Cars that look the same

[DVee8]

Aldi A1

 

Alfa sud

 

Alegover

[brickwall]

So, any hatchback really?

[DVee8]

Yep 4 door hatch in red

[castros_bro]

 

 

[Negative Creep]

And everything in the 1960s looked pretty similar. Every generation complains that some other generation of cars all look the same.

 

 

Most Yank Tanks look like the same aircraft carrier with a different grille stuck to the front

[castros_bro]

Nott carz

 

 

 

 

 

[twosmoke300]

So, any hatchback really?

Erm , isn't the aggro technically a saloon ?

[brickwall]

S'pose so.

[HH-R]

The Yugo Sana, Citroen ZX and Renault 19 look pretty similar.

[dollywobbler]

Sana and ZX, for sure. Renault 19 though? Not really. That's a step-back hatch like an Escort or Xantia. 

[Formula Autos]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PhilA]

To me these look sorta similar, I think it's mostly the grille

 

 

 

(Obviously not doing the whole Bentley-looks-like-a-Chrysler thing)

 

 

 

And for Vulg:

 

Touche' on the Moggy-

 

[mercrocker]

How about a Fifties Chrysler looky-like.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mercrocker]

Or this for another Mopar...........

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Christine]

 

 

[TagoraSX]

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

 

now you're just being silly- the only similar thing with these two is they are brown!

[Uncle Jimmy]

Erm , isn't the aggro technically a saloon ?

So are Suds, they only got a hatchback late on.

[Uncle Jimmy]

I've read the Volvo Amazon is a rip off of the Chevrolet Bel Air. It does look like the famous '56 model but I think the Amazon appeared in '56 so it must be accidental unless there was a Swedish spy ring in Detroit.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Simca must have cribbed from Renault when the 1000 came out in '62, the R8 debuted in '61. Yet Simca omitted the all round disc brakes that made the R8 a trailblazer.

[oman5]

Quite a well known comparison amongst petrol heads

 

 

But then the vw WAS a straight rip off of the tatra

[castros_bro]

 

 

 

[mercrocker]

I've read the Volvo Amazon is a rip off of the Chevrolet Bel Air. It does look like the famous '56 model but I think the Amazon appeared in '56 so it must be accidental unless there was a Swedish spy ring in Detroit.

 

 

Possibly, but I think Volvo styling just aped contemporary US thinking due to a close cultural link between the two countries.   Or something.   Anyway check these two out, one is only a prototype though (think it still exists in their museum)

 

 

 

 

VOLVO 444

 

 

1946 FORD

 

 

VOLVO PHILIP

 

 

 

KAISER MANHATTAN

[martc]

And everything in the 1960s looked pretty similar. Every generation complains that some other generation of cars all look the same.

I'm not that old (re per 1945 comment) but all those Austin 7's, Morris 8's etc. look almost identical to me.

 

As for more modern stuff what about the Viva HB and Escort Mk1 (and any other coke bottle influenced design)?

[pshome]

 

[JohnDeere]

[Richard]

That's the trend nowadays though. They used to completely change the look of what was basically exactly the same car (Mk1-2 Escort, Mk1-2 and Mk3-4 Cortina etc.) but now they tend to preserve the look while changing everything else.

[Christine]

Sort of ??? 

 

 

[Skizzer]

etc

etc

etc

[Skizzer]

 

Another example of Giugiaro using the office photocopier.