Mine has the rear sunroof that fully opens, plus being mid engine, they are magical cars. Imports from Japan are really clean... but only if the steering could be converted to left hand it would be perfect. A few other designs... https://i.imgur.com/fjqwdNS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Drcz607.jpg
Interview/podcast with Chris Bangle https://www.formtrends.com/chris-bangle-life-design-management/?fbclid=IwAR3428p50KkfzdSNHRpIGYdWxiywOW3Hro_wMHh2W1XhdMy_Ojz0_OM86G8
https://www.wsj.com/articles/about-150-u-s-cadillac-dealers-to-exit-brand-rather-than-sell-electric-cars-11607111494 Image Unavailable, Please Login Not particularly germane to this thread........but interesting. And the Lyriq? looked to be a nice design.......
Well I am sure the government will try to force them, even though there is only enough Lithium on earth to power under 50 % of passenger cars. Good plan And they have no other battery in development that is affordable. Sound like we will be going Hybrid and not full electric. Goodbye Tesla resale values when they finally figure that out.
X8: it’s going to take a lot of lipstick to make this pig palatable judging from this pic: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Interesting and some renders I’ve not seen before: http://www.deansgarage.com/2020/maestro-bill-mitchell-second-edition/
The Mitchell book was written by a close friend, Roy Lonberger. I highly recommend buying the book if you have an interest in the 'Mitchell Era' of automotive design. It is the most comprehensive story of Bill Mitchell's accomplishments.
The 'Unseen Porsches' explained http://autodesignmagazine.com/en/2020/11/michale-mauer-explains-the-unseen-porsche-concept-cars/?fbclid=IwAR0cBolLDEf2TwJMm11zmaAZUNWSn7eFv6xogOX8PGOqI3LOqfssYLw9abA
Designing cars under the 'lockdown' http://autodesignmagazine.com/en/2020/04/car-design-in-lockdown-moray-callum-ford/?fbclid=IwAR02FYKicfHMfpVPqT0xApRIDk_jzx16Am72lV2j71AMcFNx5Rxn6kNIk9U CAR DESIGN UNDER LOCKDOWN – MORAY CALLUM, FORD Home/EXTRA/CAR DESIGN UNDER LOCKDOWN – MORAY CALLUM, FORD View Larger Image Image Unavailable, Please Login Car design depends on teamwork, in sharp contrast to the social distancing the coronavirus pandemic has imposed. How does smart working change creative activity? What consequences will it have on the form of tomorrow’s cars? Auto&Design has asked these questions of carmaker design chiefs and independent style centres. The vision of Moray Callum, Vice President Ford Design. How has your way of working changed during this period of closure? Our work is often based on physical models, discussing these objects all together and studying a solution to make them better and better. This aspect has obviously changed a lot and to compensate for this loss we are fortunately well supported by technology and we continue to see each other remotely and discuss design. We even have a great opportunity: we work at home with virtual reality. So you brought specific tools from the studio and recreated a design office at home? Yes, we have. We have recreated a real virtual reality workstation at our homes that allows us to see things as if they were real. Just put on the viewer, grab the joystick and you’re done. It’s a project born in the form of an experiment, but it’s done incredibly well. The workstation was installed in the homes of some Ford Design directors, but soon we want to extend it to the chief designers as well. The other guys took home everything they needed to keep working, from tablets to PCs. Image Unavailable, Please Login How does this technology work? We can review and validate the same model at the same time and see ourselves all together in the same virtual world. We are even able to recognize each other because everyone is identified by our own avatar. We can also talk to each other through the microphones installed into the viewer. At the moment we are not able to make changes in real time, but this helps us to validate the 3D model just as we would do in the studio. From your point of view, how will the shapes of the cars you design change during this period? Right now it’s really difficult to answer this question because it’s like we’re still in a storm. The time will tell if the way we design will have changed. What influence could the question of social distance have, for example, on the distribution of the interior space of a vehicle? It’s hard to say. How important is inspiration from the outside for a designer? Inspiration from the outside is very important for our job, I think it’s really difficult for each of us to have strong inspiration if we are always locked indoors. However, we have to live this moment trying as much as possible to produce new ideas in our team and this is allowed by technology. We have every chance to do that. Waiting for things to get back to normal. By Edoardo Nastri|21 April 2020|EXTRA Condividi questo articolo, scegli tu dove! FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail
Older article from Autocar magazine. How car design has changed over the last 120 yrs. https://www.autocar.co.uk/slideshow/how-car-design-has-changed-120-years?fbclid=IwAR3hU5MFpZDpLHZscR4xafZsrVAAImh5xUiR0kZ-U3sMEu48konFfYN2qi4#7
I just wish I would have went there instead of CIA. Hell, I should have enrolled right after a graduated from CIA jobless. In the long run it would have been better either way. Great school.
Well, that's another story for a different thread but in a nutshell other than the GM, Ford and Chrysler Saturday instructors I got zero hands on instruction from the faculty. Lol, I learned quickly to buy beer and pizza for the older classmates so I could actually have someone teach me how to render and sketch. The staff never picked up a pencil or marker at the time. In hindsight I was a fool to stay there.