with the comments above, very strange looking car but there's something about it Would have loved to have seen and heard it driven

 

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The original looks like it has two machine guns built into the grille. All one needs for modern motoring

 

For me that's the whole point, it's different and striking. It may well be ugly, but there in lies it's beauty. Why is looking like the Batmobile a bad thing? I always wanted one when I was a kid

 

What do you mean when you were a kid - S1 Exiges in Black *were* the Batmobile as far as I was concerned

Beautiful or not its a pretty rare thing to see on the road - I wonder who was driving it!

 

Interesting that while BMW have bought up rights for old designs e.g Mini, Austin Healey 3000 and Isetta, Mercedes seen to produce these ugly designs which seem to point to an inability to improve on the old.

They are stylised clones of a corporate family design and lack any real overhaul 'newness' they just look like bits of other Mercedes mixed in a pot to make a new car.

I don't know if it is healthy to keep looking back, but I certainly feel some older designs have an originality, style and presence lacking in the new.

The 60's and 70's certainly produced some good stuff, probably due to the diversity of manufacturers and scale of production.

Chaparral 250LM

 

Unfortunately, when I was a kid the S1 Exige was known as the Europa and then morfed onto the Eclat, neither remotely like Adam West's Batmobile

 

That's what I mean - I wanted the batmobile even when I was a grownup and I saw the S1

Old maaaannnnnnn