How Shockingly Ugly Is The 218mph VLF Force 1?
VLF Automotive’s Force 1 had a bit of a troubled start in life. Aston Martin claimed that designer Henrik Fisker - one of the British company’s ex-employees - had copied the DB10. Fisker - who started VLF as a join venture with former General Motors chairman Bob Lutz and racing driver Ben Keating - responded by opening up a $100 million lawsuit against Aston; as you do.
But, with the car revealed in full at the Detroit motor show we can now see it looks nothing like a DB10. Not unless the DB10 you have in mind has been hooked on crystal meth for the last three years, anyway. In fact, I don’t like the way it looks at all.
It’s preposterously fussy at the front with all those lines, intakes and the tiny headlights (which remind me of the ones you find on the Mazda MX-5). The rear is better - a little Dodge Viper-esque in places - but with more particularly unsubtle gouges and vents, it still looks messy.
Yes, it has a 745bhp and 638lb ft, 8.4-litre V10 from the Dodge Viper and yes, it’ll do 218mph (as well as 0-60mph in three seconds dead). But right now I’m too distracted by the rubbish lettering they’ve used on the boot and the front wing to care. It looks like those naff, generic chrome letters they sell at your local parts store. On a $268,500 car. Seriously?
But maybe I’m being overly harsh. It certainly looks dramatic, and clearly has presence. So what do you think?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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this car company always has uniqueness with it. fisker was alway not good looking in my opinion. but above average. the karma had alot of waves. but what they did here is to get the waves in the karma and modernising it. i mean look at lamborghni, it has those sharp edges since aventador. and they love it, so what they did is put a little lamborghini cosmetic taste in it, not to copy but to make ppl interested.
For me its got a bit of AMG GT and Viper look about it, and the headlights remind me of the new Miata. And on a car this big, they just need to make the headlights larger. Other then that, it looks pretty good.
The front reminds me an even angrier version of the ND Miata’s face.
I can’t say it looks anywhere near as clean as a Ferrari or even a Maserati but it still looks really good and I’m assuming it will be a monster on the track seeing how it looks it was built for purpose and nothing else.
It’s like a Maserati with a little from Aston Martin and viper
It looks like a lovechild between the f type and a viper. Aggressively beautiful I think!
it’s different and i do like it :) quite a lot and i want one lol
“May the Force be with you”
I actually kinda like it.