It's a very taut, muscular looking design with origami-sharp swage lines and very painstakingly finished detailing.
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A deep swage line runs from the lower edge of the large, elongated headlamps into the window line, continuing down the flanks.
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The aggressive swage lines, the vents behind the front wheel arches and the sporty front spoiler all suggest a performance model.
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Its elegant, quasi-Audi like headlamps start you off, leading the eye down a neat swage-line crease along the length of the car.
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In profile it doesn't look too much different to the Kalos, the five-door car's rather odd drooping swage line being instantly familiar.
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The wheelarches are subtly flared, thin side vents sit behind the front wheels and theres a sharp swage line that runs along the cars hips.
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The rear end is genuinely tricky to differentiate from the 156 at first glance, but the side view shows sharper creasing and swage lines and a longer front end.
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Form metals with a swage
Upset: a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
Swaging (pronunciation note below) is a forging process in which the dimensions of an item are altered using a die or dies, into which the item is forced. Swaging is usually a cold working process; however, it is sometimes done as a hot working process.
A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work; To bend or shape using a swage
(Swaged) A method of altering the cross-sectional shape of a metal bar by pressure applied through dies
(Swaged) Bullets formed when lead wire is mechanically squeezed into shape are said to be swaged.
(Swaged) To press on, such as a ferrule on a choker.
(Swaging) Offsetting a hinge leaf at the barrel so the surface of the leaf is not tangent to the outer diameter of the barrel.
(Swaging) A method of forming either or both leaves up to or beyond, one half the pin diameter.