Hi, not sure if any of you are savy with chopping pics...but if you are, could someone do me a favor and chop either my car itself or another white Riv with some Torque Thrust D's....yes I know they're RWD wheels, but I've always loved them. And maybe some smoked tailights. Thanks in advance

post a pic of ur car and the rims at the same angle as ur wheels in the pic and ill do it

try the newest gen 05 + mustang bullitt wheels, cheap and available in a offset thats pretty close to what the riv uses. 38-42 perhaps?

Grand prix guys are always using them. 5x114.3 instead of the 5x115

I'm in ur garage, painting ur car!!!







A guy getting out of that car could be worth any amount of money. If you didn't know it was a Riv, what would you think it was? People would naturally assume it was an expensive exotic.

I'd almost be afraid to drive this, it looks so rich. Put lambo doors on it and you wouldn't be able to stop anywhere without drawing a crowd. V8 sounds aren't enough for this car, it needs a V12

One of these days I will paint my Riv like this.

Reminds me of the Bugatti's paint scheme. Probably the reason it looks so expensive. Lots of horsepower to add before we're in that league, though.

I'd like to see the scheme reversed, like Bugatti did it:

I Likes that!!!!

they look good but i didnt paint the body lines

quote: "Two-Tone (tutone?) Rivi's is like that. There's no way to bring the color down onto the rear flanks without going against the lines of the car. I agree that it is a good color pattern, one which I've also considered."

I just meant reverse what you did, light on bottom, dark on top... like the Bugatti in a general sense.

Speaking of, ever look at the Bugatti closely from front? Remind you of anything?





Also, the rear is quite narrow for a supercar.

that looks wicked in a good way.

any chance of creating some 70's supergraphics to mine. I know the Riv didn't have 'super graphics' but I thought it would be a cool look. Some geometric thick line detail on the sides giving it a speedy look.


instead of GT, say RIV



Please excuse all the Mustang examples. I know there were plenty of 70's muscle cars with them on it.

AA - Why Pchop when I can give you the real chop?



He used to have it on smaller, black rims, which was really slick.

A few more variations -



Needs a special R symbol with a reverse "E" tacked to the front, eh?



Hmm, this color is close to yours, isn't it?



I thought the bottom left one was atrocious at first but it is growing on me.

Andy - I'll have to think about it. I'm sure it can be done.

what about 2 thick black stripes on a white riv?
or 2 silver ones on a black riv? im not really a fan of stripes but the more i see it on the new mustanges the more i like it.
maybe a yellow riv with black stripes, and we can call it bumbleriv
...with black side mirrors

Those look pretty cool, Jack. I'm not a fan of the ones with paint lines not on edges or gaps, but still interesting to see.

I really hadn't considered the Riviera's styling to be anything like a Dodge Ram's, but I do see your point. I always saw the Riviera as an evolution of the pinched fender, which evolved from fins. The Riv's fenders form minimal apexes, suggesting this lineage. The Ram's hood on the other hand, has always seemed to me as a protruding bulge from flat fenders, like you saw in cars/trucks from the '30s-50s era. The character of the Riv's "W"-shaped face is quite different than the stepped line of the Ram, imo:



I feel the Veyron follows the Riv's contour pretty closely. You'd be hard-pressed to find a single car, even a Bugatti, that looks more like the Veyron from the front than the Riviera. Even the lights are similar in proportion.

Nah, I'm not saying there's a similiarity between the Riv and the Ram. I'm saying the Ram is the first vehicle I can think of that went back to the fender-and-hood styling of 20's to 50's. I think the Veyron draws its inspiration from Bugatti's of that era -





I don't know if the designers at Bugatti saw the Ram and thought, "Hey, we could do that!" or if they independently went retro. IIRC the EB110 was introduced later than the Ram, which at least implies Dodge was thinking retro first. Bugatti was also working on a retro sedan in that time frame, maybe it predates the Ram?

I don't think the Riv is a fender-and-hood type design, since there's no such model in the Riv's heritage. The look is just an accident of having the bone lines pinch in at front and back. The similiarity between the Riv and Veyron is likely coincidental.