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CAR DESIGN AWARD

Mazda RX Vision vince il Car Design Award, Concept Car........Simple is better sometimes!! And the big grill even works on this one.
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Not nearly as good from this angle.........
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Everything is great until you get to the tail lights with eye brows. Great looking car, one of the best in a few years I think.

 

Funny, I think it looks better from that angle. From the front, the rear looks like some teenager's idea of flaring the rear quarters.

 

Hey John,
Have you seen the Mazda in person? In photos it does nothing for me, and that first picture posted looks awful (Taken with a telephoto lens just screws up it's perspective). The winding road side reflection is clever but the surface development of the whole bodyside just feels long, undefined and flabby. It must look better in person.

And the DB11? Argh!

 

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This would be really cool if they shrunk the design and put it on a stretched Miata chassis, maybe with a 2400-2500 mm wheelbase along with a bigger engine. Could be a great RX7-8 replacement. The front does have a little Tesla and it drawns off a few other cars but execution is very good. Other than the tail lights I like it.


I think this Italian based design magazine appreciates that, with the homegrown stuff being so uninspired as of late. Part of that can be blamed on the Sergio’s of the world who get payed millions to pick boring designs

 

Are concept cars much of a risk for an automotive company? If they're not well-received, they don't have to put something similar into production. Why not just churn out a bunch of different concepts and see what sets the public imagination alight and then use that as a basis for the next generation of production cars?

All the best,
Andrew.

 

I can agree with all that

 

No article, just another pic.

"The Silver Arrow"?

 

Thanks John.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

I love it but I feel by the time they 'dumb it down' to incorporate elements into production cars, it will lose the subtleties that make it special.

Thats always been my problem with concept cars as test beds. What looks great in the extreme, often looks odd and unattractive, once its made producible.

 

Thank you.
V. Nice.

 

I discovered this guy on the internet. He takes existing pictures of various cars, even as old as a 1956 Bentley Continental, or prewar Delage or Delahaye, and then uses Photoshop or some other program to put humongous wheels on them and lower them. Sounds awful but it seems to me like, on one out of ten, he hits a home run. I really liked it when he redid the nose of the one off Pininfarina Hyperion Phantom dhc two seater because he extended the grille all the way down(probably wouldn't meet bumper laws).

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I wrote him and he said some of his designs have been built but didn't actually name them.