[Tommy]

Consider these comments as an attempt at an explanation, but not a justification for this car.

I found the photos by accident on a site attributed to Jason Phillips Design. Google revealed that to be a business specializing in high end, unconventionally designed furniture. He comes across to me as an artist in the industrial design field.

My experience with artists is that it isn't art unless it is new in some important way. For example, recreating the Mona Lisa is more about skill and craft than about art. Doing something that was never done before poses significant challenges. One of them is that many of the things that were never done before were not done because other artists considered them and then decided against it, usually because they could see that it would turn out badly. That means many true artists produce works that do not appeal to the general public. Occasionally an artist will produce a work that is truly original and has strong public appeal, but that is the exception rather than the rule.

My sense is that the person who designed the SWC was more interested in doing something unique than in doing something that appealed to traditional car guys. Unfortunately, he ended up with a car that only its mother could love.