That's very nice



Being quite old, though, I prefer the original restyled Cobra

Mmm, I like AC's
Reading through the site I am surprised they have put there name to this.

Maybe it would look cleaner without the front splitter, not sure about the screen either.

Sorry but that's fugly

I like the flip front bonnet, and nothing else.............and thats from someone who refuses to put boat anchors in his builds.

Cheers,

Tony

I'd say sympathetically updating an icon is actually more demanding than a clean sheet design, and these guys aren't up to it. The front wings look like they're been overinflated, the headlights are oversized blobs, and they see to have tweaked the grille opening and surface profile. Badly.

In fairness, Ford's own Cobra Concept missed the mark too.



The pity is that it looks like a lot of effort has been put into the engineering design details. I'll admit that I don't really see the point of a computer controlled filler cap, but would have thought they could do good business selling the side exhausts as aftermarket items.

This sort of stuff really isn't my cup of tea but IF you must do this sort of thing, why not give this guy a call?



http://www.racerxdesign.com/kc427.html

And? Did you check the rest of his website - he HAS built bodykits etc, so has successfully taken things beyond two dimensions and lends this some credibility. There's also a link to Regalis Motors, although this seems to be nothing more than a website.

Regardless it's a pretty well developed sketch which is a damn site prettier than the Iconic Motors effort and I doubt will be the last 're-imagining' of the Cobra we see.

I'm not going to accelerate the onset of RSI explaining exactly what a sketch like this is for and is supposed to achieve within the design process; you might want to read the design story of an individual model on a site like cardesignnews.com or carbodydesign.com.

Of course it couldn't be built exactly as is: that's why it's called a sketch, not a measured drawing. As far as design sketches go is not only not as exaggerated as the fashion sketches you refer to but less so than many other development sketches of cars that have made it to production.

I did not suggest that this was a blueprint - with regards to the Iconic, the front end treatment in the sketch is recognisably a Cobra but far better resolved and could survive the transition to reality recognisably intact.

The former is impossible without the latter. Your argument is that unless every sketch is correct in every detail it has no worth at all: if we extend that to it's logical conclusion this means the design must be complete in every detail before pen is put to paper: sort of design it before actually designing it. The sketch does give a good idea how a finished item might look but would obviously be revised as the detailed design process developed.

There are those who think a flashy drawing is the be all and end all, and will impress others. This is patently nonsense, but it doesn't follow that all sketches are by definition without merit. You don't understand this design methodology or what role sketching plays in it: fine. You don't want to familiarise yourself with it: also fine, but then you forfeit the right to whine about it.

And if you think those wheels were big.... Mazda Kazamai sketch vs. reality

...and, at the end of the day, it's a concept so even the real things wheels probably still aren't anywhere near production feasible