Another crowd-source design effort just wrapped up at GM

[DARKPT]

I thought the timing of this article was good given the discussions here this week:

http://automotive.speedtv.com/article/autos-winning-supercar-design-entry-to-be-produced-in-2013


Dan

[oldguy668]

That thing is just an update of the old adage that "a camel is a horse designed by a committee".

Fugly!

[Mechie3]

Woof....that looks retarded. Wait, it says here it was chosen by the number of likes on facebook. Oh, now it makes sense. Guess that's the kind of car you need if you want to attract middle school boys and girls.

[JBrown88]

That.....I don't even know. I just want to forget I ever saw that.

[Vman7]

we;03ll I h2 toove......Hav..oinng trouble.....seaing after that on1.......(rubbing eyes from the burn)...lol

oh great now I have to go put water on my eyes.....lol I need to remind myself when checking out posts like this one to put on sunglasses first.............OUCH!

Then again what would anyone expect from a Farcebook poll......

wonder who let the people in the insane ward draw.......new Gov't program?.....lol

Sorry can't help myself.....lol, still think bailing out GM was a good idea?....roflmbo

[StatGSR]

Proof the general public (facebook) doesnt know what makes a car look good?

[shim2]

Looks like Ferrari and Lotus got together had a really ugly baby.

[DrieStone]

I must be the crazy one. I like it.

[Hankl]

Looks like Ferrari and Lotus got together had a really ugly baby.


http://assets.speedtv.com/images/article_assets/111/1110261/1110261_article_img_large1.jpg


Snaggletooth! Looks like it needs braces too!

Hank :cool:

[Xusia]

I don't think it's all that bad either!

[Flamshackle]

Wow, unique I'll give it that... And that's all I would give it

[Jeff Kleiner]

Proof the general public....doesnt know what makes a car look good?

We've seen that demonstrated right here in our little corner of the internet recently.

Jeff

[VTX]

I think the form factor is actually pretty nice. It's the details that are hideous in my opinion.

[mekeys]

It's got to be a good design..The guys a "PRO".

Mel

[Niburu]

it looks like a modern day Porsche 914

[leetfade]

Uhhh... not sure how to react to that car. I can't really see it on the road with a lot of buyers.

It's not the worst thing I've ever seen but I surely couldn't see myself driving it....

[Smitty911]

it looks like a modern day Porsche 914

Ouch, now that is just insulting to the Classic looks of a 914. (I'm biased, I've owned three of them. ;) )

I don't see it, I see more of a 917, but that's me.

Smitty

[Niburu]

Ouch, now that is just insulting to the Classic looks of a 914. (I'm biased, I've owned three of them. ;) )

I don't see it, I see more of a 917, but that's me.

Smitty
well there is definitely some 917 in their too
but it is a targa
flatten the wheel arch, staighten the nose a little and take of some of the ridiculous looking details and I see a 914

[blueafro]

It appears that GM's involvement is simply an agreement to supply parts (power train and perhaps more), but their name is being dropped in a way to suggest they are behind the chassis and possibly its construction.

Also, it was a design contest like FFR's, not a committee design.

I don't actually like the design or have any interest in yet another British cottage supercar, but I thought I'd point these things out because a few people in this thread seem to have missed them.

It's actually an interesting contest in light of Dave's comments that many of the popular FFR contest entries were not producible. The GrabCad contest had a much more detailed chassis to work around than the FFR template, and I wonder if FFR had given more guidance and rejected entries that plainly wouldn't work, if they would have ended up with more usable ideas from the contest.

As to whether the winning GrabCad design will actually be used as is, or even whether the project has enough funding to complete its first prototype much less production, I guess we'll see. It seems like we hear about a new supercar project every week, but only a handful a decade seem to make it to production.

[crash]

The overall is a bit interesting, but the details look a bit "dis-jointed".

Definitely not "pedestrian".

[AJ Roadster NJ]

This from the outfit that brought you the Pontiac Aztec. I have a leftover english muffin that I'll wager, that this truly ugly monstrosity sells less units than the Aztec before it goes out of production.

It looks like a Daytona Prototype with Cadillac slashed-quarters, then the rest of the details were filled in by the nearest 9-year-old.

[vozproto]

Porsche 914 and the Mach 5 had a drunken love-child... and then found out they were cousins.

See? Incest doesn't pay....

[Sailor]

I just don't like the short wheelbase, low end, high in the middle look. It looks too dunebuggyish for me. Like a kit built on an old VW chassis. And that toothy looking front end.... Pass thank you.

[EvilJack]

Umm, yeah..... looks very disjointed to me. Kinda like they took all thier favorite parts from 10 differnet cars and put them together. I think the back end has some potenial, but the front is just bleh. The side profile is even worse thent he 3/4 front view.

[wjfawb0]

Looks like a car to me. Just like the 818, I would care more about how functional it is than what everyone thinks about how it looks. I don't think I've ever seen a good looking locost, but I sure as hell would like to build one for the building and driving experience.

[kach22i]

There were much better entries, it's a shame they chose that one.

Their template also had flaws, like no leg room (could be fixed) but it was still better than FFR's in most respects.

[DrieStone]

I like that it's dramatic and bold. One of the things that I think the car market in until recently suffered from was this sense of playing it safe. There are a lot of elements I love about the look of that design, and honestly I wouldn't be embarrassed driving it around.

One thing I'm realizing is that when you're talking about the scale of smaller cars like the miata, exile, etc. it's going to look a little toyish, that's ok with me.

There's no way it can be built (if it was a kit) for $15k, and probably not even $30k, so it's not anything close to competitor. I think it's pretty cool that we're starting to see the small exotic car as a new(ish) market. It can only mean good things for the sales of the 818.

[mekeys]

[QUOTE=kach22i;62861]There were much better entries, it's a shame they chose that one....


Amen

Mel