text: The resulting image is impractical (for one, the windshield header covers the back edge of the hood), but I think it’s an improvement and addresses Paul’s windshield complaint. Of course, the image I started with placed the bar below ground level…
  Yeah, once they went to the plastic bumper version they lost me. I cannot decide which is worse – that 4 door version or the post 2000 version built on the Camaro or Mustang platform. Those were just – not Avantis.
  I am a fan of the original and the AII into the 80s which kept most of the original’s look. I understand that changes were necessary (the supply of Lark convertible frames was never going to last forever) but it would have been better to let it die than to make it into the Frankenstein car it became.
  This car reminds of a cheap imitation-Matchbox copy of the original. You can recognize the car they stole the profile from but it’s just off somehow.
  The four-door version reminds of the American-food logic that says if putting cheese on something makes it good, putting four kinds on will make it even better!
  Ugly. But then I was never very fussed on the original Avanti to begin with… Maybe it was a “you had to be there at the time” design…
  I think your a little harsh as to the Convertibles over all look. As for the Four Door , I cannot give you any argument.
  The ground effects are the worst part, what on earth made skirting the bottom of the car like an oversized table cloth so damn trendy in the 90s?