As much as we love the roadgoing rallycars from Subaru and Mitsubishi, it's because of the way they drive, not necessarily for their handsome silhouettes. But beauty is, as they say, in the eye of the keyholder. Artist Benedict Radcliffe, head of experimental design at the Glasgow consultancy
Stand, fashioned this wireframe outline of a Subaru WRX as an objet d'art. It sits outside the
Paul Smith gallery on Albemarle Street in
Glasgow, Scotland London, England (Thanks, Tony). And showing they have no love of fine art, the local constabulary has repeatedly ticketed the offending
vehicle. Tickets are alternately written out to The Invisible Man or Wonder Woman, apparently. Well, it
does take up a parking space, but come on guys. We remember seeing VW Beetles with intricate ironwork "bodies" in place of traditional panels, but this is a bit more extreme. It actually looks like a styling buck at first glance, but click
here or
here to see that it is indeed the real deal.
[Source: Winding Road]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mikomi 5:51PM (3/12/2007)
Haha! If anyone, it would be the Invisible Man and Wonder Woman who should be annoyed for getting tickets written out to their names and it's not even their car. Besides, if the constables really didn't like the frame being there in the first place, they would have had it taken away.
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moogy 10:18PM (3/12/2007)
This is a computer generated image...
Now way this is real..
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Josh 9:38PM (3/12/2007)
It's not a WRX, it's an Impreza RS. Cool wireframe, regardless.
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Foof 1:39AM (3/13/2007)
Uh, Josh buddy--let me guess, you're from the US, right?
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ryan 2:04AM (3/19/2007)
the US needs a WRX coupe, and badly at that
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Tony 7:14AM (3/13/2007)
This was first exhibited outside Glasgow’s Brusnwick Hotel last year. One of the nicest wee exhibitions I’ve seen in years. Photographs never do this piece justice, it always ends up looking computer-generated. Believe me, it’s not. I climbed inside to pose for a comedy photo after one too many beers.
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Tony 7:16AM (3/13/2007)
That should have said ‘Brunswick Hotel’. Apologies for the typo.
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Tony 7:19AM (3/13/2007)
Oh, one other thing: The Paul Smith Gallery (and this exhibition) is in London. That's about 450 miles away from Glasgow and in a totally different country.
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Cornelius 12:15PM (3/13/2007)
At first glance, it looks like a cg-rendered wireframe.
Nice choice of impreza, btw. The GC coupes were my favorite.
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Ford Mustang 4:46PM (3/17/2007)
That's pretty cool.
What's with all these Digg buttons? I'm a digg member, but they just seem out of place here especially since most of the stories being dugg are not on autoblog.
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