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A retro-style automobile is a vehicle that is styled to appear like cars from previous decades. Often these cars use modern technology and production techniques. This design trend developed in the early 1990s and led to almost all automobile brands introducing models that referenced previous cars of the 1950s and 1960s. [1]
Many modern automobiles are designed in a retro fashion - to reflect the style of automobiles from the past while using modern design techniques and having the performance, safety and build quality expected by present day buyers.
Ford's Advanced Product Creation team designed and built the Shelby Cobra concept in five months. The project was led by Manfred Rumpel. Like several other Ford vehicles developed in the early 2000s (such as the GT40 concept, the GT and the fifth-generation Mustang), the Shelby Cobra concept is a modern interpretation of an older vehicle.
The Ford Forty-Nine was a concept car created by the Ford Motor Company. It was designed by Chip Foose and was first introduced at the 2001 North American International Auto Show. It was a tribute to the 1949 Ford. [1] A convertible was also built, finished in red, but it was a static display vehicle and as such had no running gear. [2]
The design was commissioned by Ford's design director J Mays, [9] who selected Newson after seeing his Lockheed lounge chair in a Madonna video for the song "Rain." [10] [11] The result was a four-door saloon in what Newson termed a "retro-futurist" theme, similar to the predictions made of Year 2000 automobiles in the 1960s. [10]
The ARES Design Project1, in 2023 marketed as the ProgettoUno, [1] is a coach-built sports car manufactured by Italian automobile manufacturer ARES Design. Based on the Lamborghini Huracán , the car is meant to be a modern reinterpretation of the De Tomaso Pantera .
The J.72 was an ultra-exclusive luxury roadster, the first production vehicle of the Panther Westwinds company. [1] Styled to evoke the Jaguar SS100 and sold from 1972 to 1981, it used mechanicals from the Jaguar XJ, including its 5.3 L V12 engine. It was also offered with Jaguar's 3.8 L and 4.2 L XK engines. [2]
Shay Motors Corporation was an automobile company founded by Harry J. Shay in February 1978 as the Model A & Model T Motor Car Reproduction Corporation. [1] Harry Shay arranged with Ford Motor Company to build a limited run, modern-day reproduction of the Ford Model A Roadster, with a rumble seat, that was to be sold through the network of Ford Automobile Dealers and built in Battle Creek ...