Osnabrueck
G-Class Explorer
After looking at this thread it suddenly hit me that an inventory of bad Photoshops is long overdue.
For the past several years we've made lots of assumptions about future vehicles based on what hits the covers of German periodicals; Auto Bild in particular. Aside from being the Germany's premiere automotive weekly the magazine is regularly graced with illustrations by the now famous or infamous Huckfeldt.
Not only are Huck's renderings good, and often convincing, but sometimes he hits the design on the nose with what appears to be insider information.
On the other hand his feats of clairvoyance have put him in such good graces we forget that he's usually wrong. That's what this thread is about.
I want us to dig into our memory banks of the past 5 or so years and scrounge up Photoshops where Huck was just wrong.
I don't mean to pillory or defame Huck; he's arguably the best in the business. I just want this to be a reality check. We've strung ourselves along and have created hundreds, if not thousands of pages, debating the merits of an upcoming BMW or Mercedes thinking full well that a Huck impression is more than a dart thrown at the wall. Ovbiously he has his sources, but sometimes he's way off the mark and we fool ourselves into thinking otherwise.
I'll kick it off with these two bad impressions of the E65 that Huck did back in 2000:
There's been some obvious gaffes from magazines like Auto Motor und Sport over the years, but they're usually taken with a grain of salt. I want us to focus on Huckfeldt Photoshops.
In recent memory - He was wrong about the E70 X5 and was constantly wrong with the E60 5er. There's a slew of others, but none come to mind right now.
For the past several years we've made lots of assumptions about future vehicles based on what hits the covers of German periodicals; Auto Bild in particular. Aside from being the Germany's premiere automotive weekly the magazine is regularly graced with illustrations by the now famous or infamous Huckfeldt.
Not only are Huck's renderings good, and often convincing, but sometimes he hits the design on the nose with what appears to be insider information.
On the other hand his feats of clairvoyance have put him in such good graces we forget that he's usually wrong. That's what this thread is about.
I want us to dig into our memory banks of the past 5 or so years and scrounge up Photoshops where Huck was just wrong.
I don't mean to pillory or defame Huck; he's arguably the best in the business. I just want this to be a reality check. We've strung ourselves along and have created hundreds, if not thousands of pages, debating the merits of an upcoming BMW or Mercedes thinking full well that a Huck impression is more than a dart thrown at the wall. Ovbiously he has his sources, but sometimes he's way off the mark and we fool ourselves into thinking otherwise.
I'll kick it off with these two bad impressions of the E65 that Huck did back in 2000:
There's been some obvious gaffes from magazines like Auto Motor und Sport over the years, but they're usually taken with a grain of salt. I want us to focus on Huckfeldt Photoshops.
In recent memory - He was wrong about the E70 X5 and was constantly wrong with the E60 5er. There's a slew of others, but none come to mind right now.
