car design thread

I like that better as well

 

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A New Design Tradition

Many hands were involved in sketching the Ferrari Roma, Maranello's newest GT. We meet the design team who developed its new, timeless, aesthetic

https://magazine.ferrari.com/en/cars/2020/03/24/news/a-new-design-tradition-the-ferrari-roma-77865/

 

I like everything about it except the versions that have "skinny" wheel spokes. To each his own. See comparison:
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Making the Audi AI:ME Concept Car

 

I'm digging both, and that's the great thing about modern Ferrari's, you've got a few options in wheels.

Roma's my new "dream car". So different than the standard notion of "exotic", which is still in the mode of Italian Radicals from the 70's. The design creates a new aesthetic path, retaining elements associated with the exotic, a low and wide stance and futuristic graphics, but now built on a new set of bones, tight curves replacing folded wedges.

-F

 

Question: Do the kinked windows roll down or do they pop out at the bottom like a camper?

 

Good question. Only the lower portion looks like it could drop into the door. No hinges for a camper arrangement that I can see.

 

I love most of it but that strange hump right before the A pillar is now starting to annoy me. I cant stop seeing it

 

Once pointed out, it's pretty jarring against the rest of the design. I would find it hard to believe that it was an intentional lump by the designers, and probably more something that got foisted upon them by the wind tunnel. Perhaps it helps smooth out the airflow around the A-pillar and wing mirror.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

For you jm2; a short article in Arch Daily on the GM Tech Center...... (maybe you in this pic?........)
https://www.archdaily.com/940493/etheral-luminosity-from-above-general-motors-technical-center?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ArchDaily List&kth=221
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No not me! Harley Earl.
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The Tech Center is on the list for historical Architecture in the USA. We used to get visiting architects all the time.

 

Lexus posts teaser photo of 2021 IS. Please note this is a 2013 design on its 3rd refresh!
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Back in the ‘old days’

 

Nary a scarf in sight........

 

Unless it was a ‘Michigan winter’

 

Didn't that just mean wearing the heavy fedora when going out?

-F

 

There's a word I haven't heard for awhile.........fedora

 

Designers went from wearing scarfs too

Brought back to relevance by Perry!
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Had to share this commentary on the state of design today.......

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https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2020/01/16/jim-mariol-designed-the-worlds-best-selling-car-beloved-by-toddlers-for-40-years?refer=news&utm_source=edaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-06-01

 

Question for GM car designers in Mitchell/Rybacki/Jordan Era:I heard that Mitchell was dead set against the Two Rotor Corvette. Why? It was mid-engine which i think he would like. It was designed by Pininfarina, which I also think he would like. Did he think it was too small? Or was he forbidden to have design input because it was a corporate project, not a Chevrolet one? Well, then if he hated that, did he push the Four Rotor sucessor which was publicized as a Chuck Jordan project? Did Mitchell want the Two Rotor hidden away because he was worried reporters might find out it was a Porsche 914 underneath? Is it true that "secret" came out when Zora , in a late night dinner with drinks with a reporter, revealed it?

 

Wally,

The designer of the 2-rotor was Kip Wasenko. Fabrication was by Pf but not the design.

As for the 4-rotor being a Jordan project - yes, he was a leader of it but I don't that Mitchell would relinquish full design authority for anything badged as a Corvette. I do know that it was Mitchell that wanted the more pointed nose. Exterior design by Jerry Palmer interior by Jim Orr.

 

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Sadly, you got your 'facts' incorrect. The Two Rotor was designed in house with Kip Wasenko as the lead designer. Mitchell thought the car was too small, and wasn't shy about expressing his distaste for the vehicle. The car was done in the Advanced area without much/any Mitchell input. The Four-Rotor was Mitchell's response as to what a real Corvette should look like. That car was dictated line for line by Mitchell himself. The studio designers did all the cool renderings, but as Mitchell said, " there's only one person that designs Corvettes around here".
The car was NOT designed by Pininfarina. They built the prototype from the GM supplied design. Alcoa later did an additional prototype using the same design as the 2 Rotor.

 

Saw the stills of the new BMW 4 this morning, and as fate would have it passed a current Malibu in silver shortly afterwards while out.
That car has really held up well in comparison. There are a few niggles, but overall, really clean, elegant and simple.
The BMW by comparison, was just so forced, especially the rear which has so much going on that (and I can't believe I'm saying this) it might actually be worse than the front.
How did it come to this?