The Shamal does look great, l really like the muscular front and rear quarter panels, only thing I don't like is the odd cut out for the rear arches, just thinking, why?
They do look very nice but I never got my head around the rear wheel arches as they never really looked quite right to me. Overall I prefer the Ghibli, especially the cup.
Love the Shamal. I agree on the rear wheel arches, though they doesn't look as out of place in the flesh. It was a bit of a styling cue at the time, as they did the same with the QP and the Chubasco concept, but interestingly not all Shamal's have those arches; some have regular arches.
Would love to storm up to a middle lane hogging BMW 3 and see them take fright at that looming down on them...raw power, few if any driver aids...don't even think they had ABS...a riot in the wet I guess! Just looks so agressive when compared to the Coupe.
there's some great footage on Enrico's pages of the Japanese contingent who really take the Shamal seriously and have made a few subtle mods to really round them off for modern eyes, so to speak...