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Corvette ZR1 Laps Nurburgring in 7 min 26 OK, obviously we will never know what the designers drew from, and who can account for taste. But ugly? I didn't see the Z get a place in the Guggenheim Museum of Mod Art. The TT did.

Corvette ZR1 Laps Nurburgring in 7 min 26 I will add only this... I owned the first 240z model (S30)and some since. I owned the 8th TT delivered to the US in mid '99. At that time (and I challange a challange), nothing else on the market had lines like those designed by Freeman Thomas (also in CA, LOL) for the TT concept. I then watched the new Z style arrive a couple of years later and was almost embarrassed for Nissan at their TT on steriods body design. I am not saying the Japanese don't make good products, of course they do...they just don't waste much time with an original thought. Other than robotics mind you!

Corvette ZR1 Laps Nurburgring in 7 min 26 Where the designers of the Nissan were sitting has zero relevence. All they did was see a TT and start to put a Nissan slant to it. Put a profile of the 2000 TT next to a profile of the 2003 350z and tell me they thought of that style while California dreaming. The Japanese blatantly duplicated popular styles and reverse-engineered products from around the world for decades, made them cheaper and even sometimes better. And not just with cars. There is no point in denying it. If you think Japan is higher tech then Germany, think again. Many innovations of the modern world came from Germany (ie. Karl Benz invented the first gas powered car). And America has invented countless thousands of everyday modern devices that the Japanese just copy, refine and put their brand on. But they lack innovation and inventive thinking. Superior German engineering is world renowned while Japanese engineering is not. Japanese engineering equates to design copying. Japanese cars may be more reliable than the new German cars but that is because they are less refined and have far less sophisticated 4-cylinder engines. And why for the most part are they less expensive? Because there is practically no cost for research, design and developement! Not unlike what the Chinese are attempting right now in their breakout automotive copy-cat design schools.

Corvette ZR1 Laps Nurburgring in 7 min 26 Nitrous, are you on the pipe? Nissan has been copying Audi and other Euro makers for years. (first 350z lines looking like the orig TT a coincidence?)It's what they do...take other's technology and design, mix well and put their badge on it. This can't be the first you've heard of this phenom!

Corvette ZR1 Laps Nurburgring in 7 min 26 "Looks average" is a compliment. It "looks" horrible compared to the Vette's beauty.

Audi A1 Cabrio Reveals Engines Or the TT? Gaggles of fems drive those.

Audi A1 Cabrio Reveals Engines I wish for once Audi would design a rear-wheel drive system. This car cries for it. Especially if it wants to be comped to a Mini.