Not exact matches
In the early days some manufacturers
did miss the mark with what a
hatch should be, offering a saloon - style hinged section below the
rear glass, but it was not long before all manufacturers were designing cars with the highly practical boot door which incorporated the
rear window.
To inspire him, Callum could
do no worse than look at the XJS, the last XK, the current XK, the XJ220, the XJR - 15, and something known as the E-Type, shades of which echo in the
rear hatch's
glass shape.
The
rear hatch glass and roof edge, however,
do obscure and distort the view rearward.
The
rear hatch now has slightly shorter
glass while the lower half of the
hatch doesn't have the sharp curvature around the taillight areas.
The suicide doors might be able to stay but what they REAAALLY NEED to
do is make the
REAR hatch TOP - hinged OR maybe (JUST maybe), TOP - AND bottom - hinged WITH SPLIT in middle meaning
glass flips up, and the metal gate part flips down (in other words, they REAAALLY NEED to get RID of the SIDE - hinged
REAR hatch, NOW!!!!!) AND PLEEEASE, GIVE IT MORE REARward visibility withOUT sacrificing RIGIDITY too much!