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| Main image: CARS by Stephen Bayley. Inset: Sparing a Panda its blushes. |
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Despite the title, let me assure you that this post has nothing to do with the untimely demise of actor David Carradine. No, this is a different kind of auto-erotic experience - the type that you get from Stephen Bayley’s latest book: CARS - Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything.
This gorgeous book has already been described in the Sunday Telegraph as ‘autoporn at its most lascivious’ so I’m not ashamed to say that I have spent some quiet me time lingering over the pages which are set off so beautifully by Tif Hunter’s photographs.
During a recent coffee break browse however, I have to say that my state of bliss was suddenly ruined, nay spoiled, by the sight of a disgusting protruberance on page 347. For whatever reason, the Fiat Panda featured is fitted with some kind of nasty aftermarket spoiler which completely destroys the purity of Giugiaro’s original design.
The appendage in question is simply too shocking to display here so the image has been censored.
