SEPTEMBER 2017 65Words: Daniel Bevis Photos: Jape Tiitinen
This is no cluttered or over-complicated build. Jesse
Sipola’s retro E3 simply accentuates its purity of design
by moving everything closer to the ground...PURE
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Words: Daniel Bevis Photos: Jape Tiitinen
A
widely-agreed rule of magazine features is
that rims and air-ride do not a feature car
make. Anyone with suffi ciently favourable
credit can get themselves a shiny new
1 Series on fi nance (or Golf, or Civic,
whatever your scene is), then whack some wheels and
fancy suspension on the plastic and the job’s a good ’un.
That makes a cool car, but not a feature car. However,
when the machine in question is something as cool as
Jesse Sipola’s E3, conventional wisdom sails right out of
the window. This eye-popping vision in retro three-box
purity has unfettered licence to write its own rules, by
virtue of the fact that... well, just look at the damn thing.
It’s so cool it’s ruined the local climate around Jesse’sPBMW217.bagged_e3.ed2.indd 65 07/08/2017 07:31