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Nose/tail curves - now you see it now you don't!

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Aug 20, 2006
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As I looked through all these 'S' photos, I was baffled by the way some seemed to have a protruding nose, and others nearly none at all. The way it curves makes the car really change character from different angles.

Compare these two:
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Notice how the first seems to have a "big nose", but "no tail",
but the 2nd has a "big tail", but "no nose". It is interesting that way. Since I haven't seen it in person it is hard to grasp, but it looks like it has a much more curved/rounded profile than most other cars on the road.

Has anyone who has seen it in person noticed that? As you go past do the overhangs seem to disappear?
 
Back in the '70s my dad had a 'Citroen SM' which I gather was ahead of its' time.
It had:
#1: Wide front tapering in the rear.
#2: Insight like rear wheel covers.
#3: Fastback style hatchback.
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(his other car as an electric VW 'voltsrabbit')