Re: Throwaway Lines

 "The purity of line" (Callumism), reported to be describing a simple character line without sculptural adornment. Probably. 

Re: Throwaway Lines

 The Bangle Line
This line could crop up just about anywhere at random and in some cases isn’t a line at all. Guaranteed to have BMW acolytes reaching for their revolvers.

The White Star Line
This line sails majestically across the surface of the car before stopping abruptly and slowly sinking. Usually with catastrophic loss of life.

The Callum Line
This is an incredibly disciplined line, a very beautiful, confident line. In fact the Callum line represents the pinnacle of what a line can be right now...

The Giugiaro Line
I designed the Miura. No, really I did!

The Hair Line
As exemplified by BMW’s Adrian van Hoydoonk. Floppy and lacking in surface tension.

The Flatline
Saab’s current design direction.

The Jason Castriota Line
“Give us a job?”

The Lexus Line
What’s everybody else doing? Okay, we’ll do that too. Only more ineptly.

The Party Line
This line resembles the aftermath of a particularly messy adolescent party. Exemplified by the current Citroen DS series.

And finally...

The Visible Panty Line
This line needs no introduction as it represents the current design output from Untertürkheim. Absolute pants... 

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Thanks chaps for getting this thread off the starting line. Goatboy, I laughed out loud at everything, read it again, and laughed aloud once more! Must qualify for post of the week!

Onedin Line  

inspired by sailing ships, popular in the 1970s. Unused after last exponent died of scurvy.

Dead Line

see Flat Line

Party Line (my version)

Sounds like fun, but ....... not so fast! Another term for a company's design diection, as promoted by the Director in charge. Might be fun for him (bacause he won) but others may regard as a Line of Bull ****.

Railway Lines

Actually two lines, running close and parallel. Usually terminated with buffers to prevent the eye from going further.

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 Gents, you are very kind. Meanwhile, here's a few more...

The Maginot Line
A line created at vast expense to combat neighbouring expansionist ambition. Promises more than it delivers, fails spectacularly and necessitates a hasty and ill-considered change of tactics - (Le Quement at Renault)?

The Punch Line
A line so severe or visually challenging, it causes uncontrollable hysterical laughter. Often requiring hospitalisation. Exemplified by the entire skin surface of the BMW X1.

The Northern Line
A line that runs deep within the panel work of the car surface before halting randomly due to signal failure. Tends to evoke strong feelings of murderous rage.

The Stena Line
A line that runs in a wavy pitching motion over the surface of the car and usually results in a good deal of unnecessary drunken vomiting. (See also Gag Line)…

The Wichita Line
An unbearably wistful line that evokes a sense of desperate yearning for a separated loved one. Comes with optional string section for added ennui.

The Tree Line
A timber line for that ’I’ve just come out of the forest with twigs in my hair’ feeling. Popular in the 1950’s but has fallen out of favour since. Due to make a comeback on certain Mini’s, it is rumoured. Those crazy Germans…

I clearly have far too much time on my hands. 

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A typically inspired thread from AReader with some fine responses. So good that I felt I should return fleetingly from The Island of Lost Souls to add my suggestions.

The Fine Line Between Love And Hate. That shape that you can’t help liking, even though you know you shouldn’t. I think the rear screen of the boat-tail Buick Riviera was my first.

The Garbo Line or The I Want To Be A Line. A line that is so shy it can hardly bear for you to see it - or is that just a tease? Particularly (in)visible when sculpted into acrylic rear lights.

The Misquoted Line. The re-re-rendering of Banglisms until they became the stylistic white noise of Surface Entertainment.

The Line Of Belfort. Peugeot’s very own take on the Misquoted Line.

The That Was My Line. Peugeot’s description of Ford’s current styling direction.

The Direct Line. Fast, efficient and entirely redundant when it was decided that a slower journey from front to rear was preferable, employing many interrupted branch lines, thus affording us plenty of time to enjoy the Surface Entertainment.

The Cheap Broadband Line. The replacement for the Direct Line.

The Plimsoll Line. A term old duffers like me use for the disappointingly conservative style employed by would-be cool dudes like Laurens van den Acker, notorious collector of ‘sports footwear’.

Shitlines. Used to describe ineptly placed panel gaps.

The Line Of Coke. Either a studied rephrasing to describe Audi’s take on GM’s 60s raised hips, or a description of shapes, such as those found all over the Ssangyong Rodius, that beg the question “what were they on?”

The Party Line (my version). Rising waistline, tapering curved rear screen, headlamps half way along wing. Is that my hatchback or yours?

I miss you all. Oh no, my Master is summoning me. Yes Mr Bimmer, back on my head.