The influential 300hp V8 Maserati Boomerang, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro.
Debuted at the 1971 Turin Motor Show, it went on to inspire the lines of many iconic cars, including the DeLorean DMC-12, Lotus Esprit and Mk 1 VW Golf.
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The influential 300hp V8 Maserati Boomerang, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro.
Debuted at the 1971 Turin Motor Show, it went on to inspire the lines of many iconic cars, including the DeLorean DMC-12, Lotus Esprit and Mk 1 VW Golf.
Check out those seats!
rolling sculpture….. *droool* (and only €58 a year to tax)
I can see how it influenced the Esprit etc but the Golf?!? VW designers must have on some drugs in those days..
go find pics of a MK1 Golf (1974-1983) looking at front and rear head-on (delete bumpers to make it easier to see) & compare….influence is there alrite
Mother of God, that is beautiful. Seats like something by HR Giger.
Love the instruments clustered in the wheel. Anyone else reminded of the Panthermobile?
This is the kind of car a man with a mustache imagines himself driving. In his jocks.
Wearing cowboy boots.
That steering wheel and those leather seats are beautiful. I wonder does it have a humidor for the manly cigars the driver must consume.
It’s mingen!
Angular, and ugly.
Sorry to all the lovers of it. But that’s my tuppence. Great for its day, but its damned ugly, and that Maserati symbol on the bonnet makes it look like a pimp mobile.
It’s a Marmite issue..
The Busarus of the car world.
Dublin Bus Pr0n gets me sweaty under the collar
Gross
The great thing about a lot of Giugiaro designs is that they were very often running models i.e. they were properly-engineered and you could drive them. Many were made road-legal, including their insane Columbus concept from the early 90’s (it put the “Bus” in “Columbus”). Most concept cars then and now don’t have mechanicals or are much more than fibreglass sculptures on wheels.
Giugiaro himself was hugely influential on car design, probably more than any other European. Take a look at your own car’s doors next time you get in; if the tops of the doors seem to curl around the roofline, that tiny detail is his influence.