car design thread

So, do you have the red sketches or is GM supplying them? I remember that getting one's own work out the door was not supposed to happen.

As for yellow, when the leader was prone to yellow cars personally there was likely some spill over effect.

Was the majority of your work across the years in silver?

 

I'll bet! Guessing it would've taken a pretty short lens to match AF/VK's way of selling "Wide Track" photographically!

 

On a talk show on KPFK radio in Los Angeles (each Saturday at 1 pm) Art Gould and Dave Kounz mentioned a new Lincoln Continental, a full size one, that they saw, that had more Bentley influences. I wonder if the ex-Bentley designer who accused them of stealing Bentley's design cues will go into a tizzy again. The only thing I can remember of their description was that the door handles are in the side chrome but I am expecting a Rolls/Bentley style grille. I wonder if this will be shown at the AFAS art show at Pebble Beach on Aug. 19th?

I asked Freeman Thomas about it when I saw him at the Trancas C & C but he denied all knowledge of it, he is in charge of Advanced Styling at Ford (do they still call it styling?)

 

...or maybe this is great design and I've just lost the plot.........maybe it needs another spoiler/splitter/diffuser/scoop/wing or two (or 4)?
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.....and this is from italdesign/giugiaro no less......

 

It feels like Mr. Potato Head with auto design bits

If I were 12 Id be in love with it

 

Awesome post. Thanks

 

Pretty sure it's Italdesign post-Giuigiaro, i.e., fully VW-owned.

Also, pretty sure this is a design for Lambo for a limited run of cars. So, Lambo-excess design to the power of 2, AND badly executed.

 

Besides all the bits, flaps and slashes, the profile is so unsexy and bloated!

 

Thanks for posting these sketches Jim. Is that fist side view a early version of he Pontiac Stinger concept car ? Also talk about visibility , look how low he beltline is on these sketches, how times have changed ! Great to see some traditional marker and chalk sketches too.

 

He had some pretty uncreative designs in the 1980's and 1990's also. But this thing is just bad. I guess street cars are feeding off of race cars. Have you ever seen a modern LMP1 car

Very nice sketches John.

 

Yikes at that thought! LMP/1 on the street? ahhhhhhhgggg.......

Now a 917.....or a P3/P4......a different thing....even a 904!

 

Who from the car design section will be in Monterey next week?
I will be camping at the track.

 

Not I.

Jeff

 

That was hilarious , thanks for posting the link John. I remember really liking the Stinger when it came out on the show circuit. It came out just as I was starting ACCD, remember studying it quite closely. I also quite fond of the Pontiac Sunfire concept that came out shortly after the Stinger, I especially remember the wheels for some reason, it was all the rage to have a dark center back then on sketches !

 

Singer Porsche teams up with Williams to create some beautiful engine art.
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