The Imp styling always seemed to me to owe a lot to a couple of other
rear-engined cars: the NSU and the Chevrolet Corvair.
Zagato UK did a special-bodied sports version of the Imp, but it wasn't as
nice as the later coupes.
Paul
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:48:10 -0400
> From: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
> Subject: Styling, etc.
>
> The "Apex" (Imp) connection is in Robson's book and can be
> seen in the Style
> Auto article (but tactifully not mentioned). Rootes expected
> the Imp to a
> resounding success (after all, everything they had done for
> the previous 25
> years had been!) and they were planning on carrying the Imp
> styling throughout
> their entire line. Trying to image a Humber based upon Imp
> styling makes me
> ill. It is too bad that the Imp sports car project died (the
> Asp) that would
> have been a nice successor to Alpine.
>
> Jan Eyerman
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