Basically nicked the design mate

[Stinkwheel]

We all know about badge engineered models, think bubble fiesta and mazda 131 etc, we also all know of earlier designs carrying on in production like the Dong Feng chinese citroen ZX's but can we think of many cars that bear a seriously striking resemblance but werent  anything to do with the original design (allegedly)

I'll start us off, I give you the skoda favorit that, to my eyes must be a kind of rip off of the Citroen Visa basic outline

Exhibit A

[Tayne]

Porsche Feugo / Renault 924

 

 

[HillmanImp]

Mazdaguar 6 & Jagzda XF

[HillmanImp]

2 minutes ago, Tayne said:

Porsche Feugo / Renault 924

 

 

Don't forget this:

[Mr Pastry]

8 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

I'll start us off, I give you the skoda favorit that, to my eyes must be a kind of rip off of the Citroen Visa basic outline

Yes but that basic outline goes back to the Farina Austin A40 and then the 1100, which inspired the Peugeot 104.  See also Talbot Horizon.

[Stinkwheel]

Some cracking similarities here, keep them coming

 

[Stinkwheel]

6 minutes ago, Mr Pastry said:

Yes but that basic outline goes back to the Farina Austin A40 and then the 1100, which inspired the Peugeot 104.

to illustrate your point,

 

Agree the 104 and Farina A40 are similar in many ways, dont see much kept over to the Visa/Favorit here though personally

(despite the fact the 104 floorpan and mechanicals are exactly the same as the visa 

[Conan]

[Tayne]

11 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Don't forget this:

No.

You’ve just got to look at the door shape 

 

 

[Stinkwheel]

1 minute ago, Tayne said:

No.

You’ve just got to look at the door shape 

 

 

Is that an ElCamino or  Ranchero?

[Tayne]

Ranchero.

[danthecapriman]

Ford Transit mk3/4/5.

GAZ 2705 ‘gazelle’

[castros_bro]

E type

 

Berkeley T60

 

[castros_bro]

Mitsuoka

 

[matt79]

Yugo Sana

 

Citroen ZX

 

[lesapandre]

Remember - a number of these cars and many others were styled by the same few industrial design consultancies - external to the various manufacturers; and where car companies designed models in-house, personell often moved between companies too.

For example the MkII Cortina was designed by Roy Haynes who then moved to British Leyland and used the same box-shape design language on the Maxi and Mini Clubman facelifts; and later Roy Axe who  moved from Chrysler Europe to BL etc etc.

Even when cars are not directly designed by external consultants - they may have been asked to provide ideas or prototypes that fed into the final design.

At the top of this page the Favorit was styled by Bertone - who also worked for Citroen off-and-on, so it's likely there are similarities in the Citroen range. The Citroen GS and BX are certainly Bertone influenced designs - the Visa picking up design queues from the GS.

Small world.

[junkyarddog]

FE Victor/Audi 100 Avant.

[artdjones]

XJ6

De Tomaso Deauville 

[castros_bro]

Flintstein

 

Little Tike

 

 

[artdjones]

Renault 19

Citroen Xsara.

This was the very start of my falling out of love with Citroen. The Xsara is a good car, but the styling is a copy of a car that came out earlier than the car the Xsara replaced, the ZX, which was better styled than the Xsara.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Chrysler Alpine* :

* or equivalent.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Conan said:

What's the black car?

[wuvvum]

[Sigmund Fraud]

How about some forgotten originals ?

"Citroen BX" :

"Citroen CX" :

[Sigmund Fraud]

1 minute ago, wuvvum said:

Also see :

[Conan]

3 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

What's the black car?

Isuzu Bellel. One of two from the lot not designed by Pininfarina.

[Six-cylinder]

How about this pair both designed by Pininfarina.

[Stinkwheel]

23 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Close but no cigar surely? ( I’ll stop calling you Shirley) 

[Christine]

[Tayne]

The upper image is Range Rover Monteverdi, an officially sanctioned 4 door conversion.

The lower image is the LR built 4 door which came out a year and a half later.

Note the rear wheel arch differences.