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Originally Posted by morninggents
Re. the Lagonda - quite the most ridiculous looking car of it's era IMO.
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Oh I don't know. It had quite a lot of competition for such a title back then.
The one-off Shooting Brake creation is rather interesting.
However the various "electronics" advances were almost certainly ahead of their time and too clever for the car's reputation.
For something that overlapped in terms of period availability how about the Lamborghini LM002?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_LM002
That clearly looks ridiculous even taking into account its military usage intent.
Then again had it not looked rather off the wall in some way it would not have been a proper Lamborghini.
Difficult to say if it was ahead of its time but the Hummer for non-military used came a little later iirc and the idea of high performance SUVs, though perhaps less practical as workhorses than used to be the case for Range Rovers, up market Jeeps and the Japanese 4x4 designs, have become quite popular of late. So maybe it was ahead of its time. Difficult to categorize it as "Too clever for its own good" I suppose - although it did fail to make it as a military vehicle as per original intent.