2014 Car Launches

[Chad Stewarthill]

That Caterham is disgustingly ugly. It looks a bit like a really ugly car has snuck up behind an attractive one and eaten it, with just the front wing left to finish off.

I'd say an Airbus is prettier by far (speaking of which, they must be hoping against hope that it's really quick).

 

[chreden]

The Caterham is so wacky, makes me laugh every time I see it. At least all the cars are different this year!

 

[The Artist.....]

Caterham:

An ironing board with legs!!

what I can't work out is how on earth the Caterham passed the crash test. The thin sausage at the front presumably has no deformable structure, and there's very little of the triangular wedge of the nose to deform....

 

[Wombcat]

The Caterham reminded me of this March, but then inverted

Just wondering. Are their extra points this year for the ugliest car? Because teams seem to be trying really hard to get their cars as ugly as possible.

Although the Caterham is so ugly that it went of the scale and become somewhat pretty again.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Caterham have spread into the bike market and even their bikes are ugly this one is called The Brutus 750.

http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/197864/1/caterham-bikes-launched-in-milan.html

 

[gethinceri]

Chad, anyone?
you'll need to be old to get it.

 

[Greenlantern101]

The caterham does look like it forgot to do up its fly.

As for the above bike. That is COOL.

 

[Chad Stewarthill]

gethinceri

I get it (I think). I'm certainly old, anyway.

 

[Legs]

Chad, anyone?
you'll need to be old to get it.

Wot, no points (again)?

 

[sushifiesta]

It seems that under the skin the Mercedes nose probably shares as much in common with the Lotus nose as the Ferrari nose:
http://somersf1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/explaining-wo5s-nose-in-terms-of.html

And McLaren are doing something sneaky with their rear wishbones:
http://t.co/cPnxp0kA7h

 

[Plutus]

I may be a little late with this but interestingly Mercedes and Ferrari have a very similar nose design and they are also the only ones, apart from Renault, who however have no works team, build their own engines.

 

[sushifiesta]

Marussia:

Looks pretty elegant compared to most of the cars but it also seems pretty basic to my untrained eye. As far as I can see it doesn't even have turning vanes by the sidepods for example. Also, pretty much no sponsorship.

 

[Greenlantern101]

Hard to see the nose.......thingy........ from those photos.

 

[teabagyokel]

Greenlantern101 - Good on them, then.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

I like it. Slight bias though as it's kinda my local team. One of the better noses we've seen this year

 

[Mephistopheles]

That Marussia definitely wins the PCC (Pretty Car Championship.) the best looking sleekest looking no nonsense car out there Max definitely won't want to put a scratch on that one another perfect finishing record this season for him me thinks...

 

[siffert_fan]

alright.

The least ugly nose of them all!

 

[Andyoak]

flattering paint job but a nice simple design... good luck to them.
Still think the Williams wins the award for making the most acceptable appendage.

 

[Fenderman]

I had been wondering where I had seen McLaren's snout before. Flashback to 1960's graffiti character:

 

[rufus_mcdufus]

That's where I've seen that nose before!