Comments on: The Life Aquatic: the trend in fish-faced cars

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:38:07 +0000

Nice one, Drew. Leave it to an Australian to pair up all these fish with their automotive matches.

By: Massimo

Massimo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:18:08 +0000

That car design has always taken inspiration by animals is an evident true.

But what kind animals: bats, eagles, raptor, bulls, feline, catlike, etc…

Now here we are with fishes, but why not taking Manta ray, Shark, Marlin, catfish, goat-fish…

rather than Grouper and all the horrible etc..

Simple, because the auto industry is in its most insipid, dullness, flatness (like fishes), and rather ugly era…

But still could be worst;
at least nobody (yet) in a studio did wake up by taking inspiration from a
fish-finger…

By: Joe Simpson

Joe Simpson — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:23:46 +0000

Lol – glad you actually did this, so that now we’ve got something to point people at when we’re discussing the topic. One small thing though – I’ve always thought of the Leaf as a “Guppy” with its vacant ‘eyes’ and gaping mouth, and now you’ve ruined it for me, cos you’re right – the Grouper’s a much better resemblance (!) I never realised you had such good acuatic knowledge Mr Smith

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:39:18 +0000

I’m sure we could draw a link between simian posteriors and PSA’s tail lamps. In fact, I’m certain we could…

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:33:42 +0000

I’m not sure what Big Headlights (I blame PSA) say, but I’m pretty sure people have settled on “upright but grille-less” meaning “efficient”.

I have no idea what Big Taillights mean, though I again blame PSA.