Recently, I've been researching a new article for the "What Lies Beneath" segment on this blog involving Audi. In the process, I dug up some photos of Audi's 1991 Quattro Spyder concept car. While certainly a great styling exercise from the boys in Inglostadt (shame they never got it to production), there's one rather vintage detail that stuck out to me...
Lets take a closer look at that door handle...
...and again on the green version...
That should look familiar to you Porsche aficionados out there. They're nothing more than orange painted Porsche 914 door handles...
Apparently VW/Audi still had a few laying around the parts bins from the 1970s and put them to good use. Neat huh?
1 comment:
As long as they are neat, what's the problem? They are timeless, look good design always is. If you hadn't pointed it out, nobody would've noticed. At Aronline, there's an article on the famous Morris Marina doorhandles, that made it to everything from the Lotus Esprit to the Range Rover, far beyond the 90's.
http://www.aronline.co.uk/ado28doorsf.htm
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