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Originally Posted by axiomatik
To comment on your comments:
1. it's really not all that low slung. it's slammed with massive wheels in that chop. if it had been drawn at a standard ride height with standard sized wheels/tires, it would look much less low slung.
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car is very low slung for a vehicle of modern times...outside of low volume pasta rockets...you dont really see production cars that are low slung like this at all anymore...even if the were 2 inches higher
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Originally Posted by axiomatik
2. what does the belt line have to do with modern safety standards? The door needs a side-impact beam. side air bags are usually installed in the headliner. what safety standard dictates that the belt line has to be high?
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the belt lines in doors have been raised much higher to accommodate higher and thicker door beams in modern cars...why do you think ALL cars now (with the exclusion of low volume vehicles like the lotus elise or anything in ferraris line up) have such tall doors compared to their 90s counterparts...some of it has to do with design standards as well...but...its mainly because safety standards since the 90s have gotten a lot more stringent and require much, much more reinforcement and protection in order to pass crash test ratings to allow the car into production
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Originally Posted by axiomatik
3. obviously it doesn't follow nissan's current styling trends, it follows inifniti's current styling trends, since it is a chop of the current g37 coupe. I don't see the connection to 90's exotic cars.
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it really doesnt fit infinitis standards either...infiniti is a bit more exotic and luxurious looking than nissan now yes...but it doesnt adhere to ANYTHING built on the FM platform at all (given most of infinitis line up is using that chassis as its underpinnings)...the doors are WAY too small and the window/roof line is way too tall...it looks like someone used a S chassis roof line to photoshop this car together...the body lines of the car resemble the coupe that cadillac produces...and the front bumper is bit too "90s" for the car