Audi TT design similar to 99 Mitsubishi Eclipse....
01-20-2001, 11:58 AM
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Lets gets something straight off the bat here . . .
You clearly stated in your original post that the <b>1999</b> Eclipse is where the Audi Designers got their idea for the TT from, to Quote you:
<i>"Well, they should take a look at the 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse side by side with a TT and try to convenience themselves the Audi TT didn't copy from it!"</i>
You never mentioned the 1994/95 Eclipse ANYWHERE in your original post! How could I possibly read your mind? I have looked at the link to the 1995 Eclipse . . . if you are a designer as you so claim, then PLEASE point out to me the stolen ideas from the Eclipse as are used on the Audi TT?
Flush headlights? No, that is not it. 4 black wheels holding the car from scrpaing the ground? No, that is not it. All wheel drive? No, Audi has been using that since 1980! A hatch instead of a trunk? No, that is not it. The cheap plastic interior? No. All of the aluminum pieces on the inside of the car? No, see comment before this one!
MW, please explain to me how a break-through design that was penned on a napkin by Freeman Thomas on May 23, 1994 has in anyway copied a very basic/generic looking Japanese "pony car"?
The cars that Freeman Thomas was thinking of when he put pen to paper were, Porsche 356, Kharman Ghia, Porsche 911, Audi Avus, Auto Union race cars and other cars along those lines. I highly doubt he even gave a Mitsubishi Eclipse a second, third or even fourth glance/thought!
Please tell me what FACTS I need to check? I answered your post based on your orginal 1999 model year Eclipse. Just because you went digging through an Eclipse archive does not mean that I have to!
The fact that you own a TT is totally 100% irrelevant to what you stated.
Now, I think you need to check your facts!
<i>"Well, they should take a look at the 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse side by side with a TT and try to convenience themselves the Audi TT didn't copy from it!"</i>
You never mentioned the 1994/95 Eclipse ANYWHERE in your original post! How could I possibly read your mind? I have looked at the link to the 1995 Eclipse . . . if you are a designer as you so claim, then PLEASE point out to me the stolen ideas from the Eclipse as are used on the Audi TT?
Flush headlights? No, that is not it. 4 black wheels holding the car from scrpaing the ground? No, that is not it. All wheel drive? No, Audi has been using that since 1980! A hatch instead of a trunk? No, that is not it. The cheap plastic interior? No. All of the aluminum pieces on the inside of the car? No, see comment before this one!
MW, please explain to me how a break-through design that was penned on a napkin by Freeman Thomas on May 23, 1994 has in anyway copied a very basic/generic looking Japanese "pony car"?
The cars that Freeman Thomas was thinking of when he put pen to paper were, Porsche 356, Kharman Ghia, Porsche 911, Audi Avus, Auto Union race cars and other cars along those lines. I highly doubt he even gave a Mitsubishi Eclipse a second, third or even fourth glance/thought!
Please tell me what FACTS I need to check? I answered your post based on your orginal 1999 model year Eclipse. Just because you went digging through an Eclipse archive does not mean that I have to!
The fact that you own a TT is totally 100% irrelevant to what you stated.
Now, I think you need to check your facts!
01-20-2001, 11:58 AM
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Some inspiration for the TT came from the 1935 Auto Union Type B speed record car.
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lol
01-20-2001, 12:24 PM
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Re: Another. Ghia & TT
<center><img src="http://people.ne.mediaone.net/cschaepe/FrontCorner.jpg"></center><p>Nice Ghia & TT Roger.
From another VW junky here is my 58 Ghia.
No side by side with the TT maybe once summer comes.
Ghia's are really the Great Grandfather of the TT in the sense that it was the sports car version of the Beetle. The TT is exactly this the Sports verion of the New Beetle. All resemblances end there though.<ul><li><a href="http://people.ne.mediaone.net/cschaepe/Image01.jpg">TT Picture</a></li></ul>
From another VW junky here is my 58 Ghia.
No side by side with the TT maybe once summer comes.
Ghia's are really the Great Grandfather of the TT in the sense that it was the sports car version of the Beetle. The TT is exactly this the Sports verion of the New Beetle. All resemblances end there though.<ul><li><a href="http://people.ne.mediaone.net/cschaepe/Image01.jpg">TT Picture</a></li></ul>