Photo: Select Car Leasing
Europeans have never truly been into hot rods and monster trucks. Compared to what happens across the pond, one could even say European cars, even tuned ones, are exclusively made by established carmakers and their sanctioned or in-house performance partners.
By contrast, In the U.S., there are more non-affiliated garages than anyone could possibly count. It is exactly these garages that gave us over the years hot rods, low-riders, monster trucks and even the good-old dune buggy.
So, what would happen if one of these garages decided to transform cars like the Fiat 500 or the Renault Scenic into machines the world has never seen before?
From time to time, questions such as these pop into the heads of people working in supporting segments of the auto industry, like insurance or financial services. It is from such people that we got to see insane car breeding with strange results or production cars going rally-mode.
This time, people from Select Car Leasing, a British company in the business of providing financial services for the auto sector, decided to answer the unasked question.
They started from the premise that Americans “got their hands on some of our favorite European cars that have failed in the States” and turned them into something that might better appeal the American taste.
That’s how we ended up with renderings showing a hot rod Fiat 500, the Volkswagen Golf Woodie Wagon, a Passat showing Caddy-like tail fins, a Mercedes-Benz E-Class copying the Viper and Corvette or the muscle car Audi TT. The cherry on the cake, a monster truck Renault Scenic.
Now, it doesn’t take a European to tell an American how a muscle car should look, because as said, the Old Continent is far behind the New World in this respect.
But these renderings only go to show that there’s at least enough imagination to go around in Europe too. Only if there was a will.
So, what would happen if one of these garages decided to transform cars like the Fiat 500 or the Renault Scenic into machines the world has never seen before?
From time to time, questions such as these pop into the heads of people working in supporting segments of the auto industry, like insurance or financial services. It is from such people that we got to see insane car breeding with strange results or production cars going rally-mode.
This time, people from Select Car Leasing, a British company in the business of providing financial services for the auto sector, decided to answer the unasked question.
They started from the premise that Americans “got their hands on some of our favorite European cars that have failed in the States” and turned them into something that might better appeal the American taste.
That’s how we ended up with renderings showing a hot rod Fiat 500, the Volkswagen Golf Woodie Wagon, a Passat showing Caddy-like tail fins, a Mercedes-Benz E-Class copying the Viper and Corvette or the muscle car Audi TT. The cherry on the cake, a monster truck Renault Scenic.
Now, it doesn’t take a European to tell an American how a muscle car should look, because as said, the Old Continent is far behind the New World in this respect.
But these renderings only go to show that there’s at least enough imagination to go around in Europe too. Only if there was a will.
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