yesterday at the NAIAS the Design Leaders from around the world named the Nissan Concept and the Ford Atlas Best Design/Concept. 1st time there has been a tie! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Cadillac ELR was awarded Best Production Design : Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I thought the Nissan looked pretty good. Maybe not in a tough off road, winter capable way, but it looked good. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
According to evo #179, the vent at the rear of the fender of the 4 coupe reduces drag around the front wheels. It's to be incorporated into every BMW. I still don't like it. I equate BMW with really well thought out, seemingly subtle, exciting, enduring designs. This aero thing throws the rest of the car way off, IMO. Image Unavailable, Please Login
How Ed Whitacre Saved GM In Just 10 Months, And Other Fables - Forbes With just one sentence on Cadillac Design, I think this bit can go in this thread Never a dull quote from Bob!
I read Whitacre's book and Bob's rebuttal. Bob is always "quoteable" if nothing else...... Choo-choo trains indeed
Designer's on Design: C7 Corvette Designer Talks Convertible, Next Z06, and Those Taillights - WOT on Motor Trend
Rock on Kirk!!! He was my instructor at CIA. A great guy and fellow racing nut who at the time IIRC ran a IT Class Camaro in SCCA. Ask him and I'm sure he'll tell you I talked about Ferrari too much! Too bad he didn't listen and apply more of it to the new vette!
Congratulations to Messers Ramachotti and Manzoni,along with the Ferrari Design team for their excellent work on LaFerrari. There has been a lot of hand wringing over whether or not the in-house team could do the job PininFarina has been doing for so long. I think this car puts that concern to rest. Great job!
It's so sad to see the era of Pininfarina pass, I was just going to post asking some professional critique about the LaFerrari design (i'm not going to get use to that name though), but maybe i'll make as a seperate thread here
mmmmm, no. they proved they could meld a 458 & enzo. not a fan at all, not that I'm in a position to shop. there is little forward thinking about this derivative design.
So where is Tom Peters in the design management for the Corvette? Who were the actual designers on the project? Jeff
That's one perspective, a more discerning assessment is that for a vehicle of its bulk, and in keeping with the instructions given them by Ferrari management; i.e. consistent with current models, form following function, etc....that the over all design cues contribute to that end. Needless to say, few if any here could do better. Sure, it has P4/5 stying elements, how could it not? The P4/5 was Sergio Pininfarina designed, with Ferrari heritage design elements all through it, and is basically the same layout (mid engine V12).
Tom is the Director of Design for the Corvette/Camaro & Kirk is the Design Manager the list of those working for them numbers @ 4-5 depending on workload
then I guess we can agree to disagree i believe the car has the right amount of beauty/fluid shapes,countered by the aggressive purposeful form vocabulary of high performance racing vehicles. it looks like a Ferrari,has just enough heritage without being 'retro' & utilizes technology in it's most effective form every designer on the planet would have probably done some things 'differently',but i personally believe the car is a great design success. however,the disclaimer of course is that i really have to see it up close & in person,and 'on the road'.....then i'll know for sure till then,it's all just conversation
Quite good IMO! I think the rear 3/4 is the best angle I've seen a picture of so far. Not boring from any angle like the P1 is from some angles. Not hard to look at like the Veneno. Quite a demonstration of the top of what Ferrari can do in 2013
