Car Design Fetish

This car makes me want to buy a big stack of orange canson.  C3 meets F-type — in an orange grove.

The Vauxhall brand received a serious shake up care of Wayne Cherry, who penned this car in 1966.  Unveiled in Geneva, the XVR borrowed its engine from an XV 4/90.  It featured a backbone chassis, all-independent wishbone suspension and disc brakes.  Unfortunately, only three XVRs were built at Vauxhall’s Engineering and Styling Center (“File:1966 VauxhallXVR.jpg”). When I look these pictures, I can’t help thinking of John DeLorean’s Pontiac Banshee proposal — which also had a short life…

“File:1966 VauxhallXVR.jpg”  Wikimedia Commons 10 July 2009.  Web.  11 Mar  2010.