{"id":23,"date":"2006-04-26T12:34:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T19:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-08-26T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T04:02:11","slug":"car-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Car design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask a hundred people what their idea of a classic, ageless\u00a0car design is and you\u2019ll likely get\u00a0a variety of\u00a0unique answers, most of which would make perfect sense. The early Mustangs and Corvettes would certainly qualify, as would the \u201857 Chevy and T-Bird, the\u00a0Jaguar XKE, and any of a dozen other great cars. But if you ask me, the greatest car design of all time is the BMW\u00a0E24 6 Series. This car just has all the right stuff. It looks aggressive, yet sophisticated. It\u2019s instantly recognizable and its appearance was changed very little from the start of its 14 year run in 1976 until the last model rolled off the line in 1989. Having owned a 633 CSi while stationed in Germany, I can attest to the incredible power and agility of this car. Its nickname was \u201cAutobahn airplane\u201d for good reason; driving it felt like flying a jet fighter. At its top speed of 149 MPH, this car was as stable as granite. It could stop on a dime and change directions without hesitation. And always it turned heads. But don\u2019t take it from me. Judge for yourself. Is this a beautiful machine, or what? I just wish it were mine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"BMW 635\" alt=\"BMW 635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/635.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask a hundred people what their idea of a classic, ageless\u00a0car design is and you\u2019ll likely get\u00a0a variety of\u00a0unique answers, most of which would make perfect sense. The early Mustangs and Corvettes would certainly qualify, as would the \u201857 Chevy and T-Bird, the\u00a0Jaguar XKE, and any of a dozen other great cars. But if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}