Design Details: Automotive Doppelgängers Edition

"Amoore100" (amoore100) 04/21/2016 at 21:50 • Filed to: Design Details, doppelgänger, Peugeot, Pininfarina, Austin, Lancia

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So this isn’t as much a Design Detail as the overall design style itself, but yesterday !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Of course, this reminded me of a Jalopnik article long ago (a QOTD, actually) where they asked us to show them the most striking automotive doppelgänger. These are cars which, although from different manufactures, have a close similarity in appearance, whether intentional or not. The most obvious that comes to mind would be Pininfarina’s work with Lancia, Peugeot, and Austin back in the ‘60s.

Lancia Flaminia

Peugeot 404

Austin A110 Westminster

Definitely a bit of laziness on Pinin’s part there. So what do you think, Oppo?

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scoob > Amoore100 04/21/2016 at 21:53

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What were these people thinking ?!

Amoore100 > scoob 04/21/2016 at 21:58

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Wow! This Subaru also looks awfully familiar. Who would have thought?

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Amoore100 04/21/2016 at 22:01

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Those bunch of weirdos with no radiator and the engine in the wrong end.

Amoore100 > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 04/21/2016 at 22:05

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Wow! It's almost like they were designed by the same person! :-O

not for canada - australian in disguise > Amoore100 04/21/2016 at 22:09

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I remember seeing a Volvo 144 once and being REALLY excited because I thought it was a Lada. Most disappointed I’d ever been seeing a classic Vo’.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Amoore100 04/21/2016 at 22:09

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Design for both was mostly done by Erwin Komenda. So yes. Same person.

Amoore100 > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/21/2016 at 22:27

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Haha, it would probably be the other way around for me ;)

Also, there’s another car that seems rather similar to that Lada...

Kookanoodles > Amoore100 04/22/2016 at 04:01

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Pininfarina could be such a bunch of lazy bastards sometimes. They did the same thing with the Peugeot 605 and Alfa 164.

Amoore100 > Kookanoodles 04/22/2016 at 19:31

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Wow! I had never noticed that before, thanks for the revelation!