Sprint is here

[nrick]

Picked it up a minute ago, that concept car is great....

[sgrimshaw]

No it isn't

[nrick]

and i thought my post was bad out here in the country!

Good read.

[RichB]

sgrimshaw said:

No it isn't

Which Sprint or the concept car?

[sgrimshaw]

Sprint

[nrick]

http://designprez.carbonmade.com/

Top option..........a few pages in.

[RichB]

If you fancy a job as a car designer by all means design a car but I never understand why these people claim it to be a TVR or Aston or whatever. It's blatently just a phalic looking car with TVR design cues, like the door opening etc.

[nrick]

To be fair he has used a lot of cues from the t cars, to me it looks like a t440

[Car Mat]

Looks like the new Morgan if you ask me......

[RichB]

Whatever it looks like, how does that assist you in getting a degree in design if all you do is copy someone else's work? Anyway... I look forward to reading about the body lift on the S series.

[nrick]

by learning the fundamentals of design, building clay models, drafting, putting ideas into practice, presentation of ideas, communication, team work. The design is actually only a small part of the brief. Isn't everything copied, is the Sag not a little like the 350t, the cerb a chim with a roof, and the Tuscan a modified Griff? ( Now I will go and burn in hell. )
I think the guy has done a great job with his clay model, better than I was capable at his age. I was more interested in drinking, the ladies, playing rugby and fixing cars. I guess that is why I am driving a Tuscan and not a Veyron

[phillpot]

Must have been short of copy to give that many pages to a car thats not even a TVR ?

Moving on to the excellent RWYB article, anyone know what arm straps are and does "open top" vehicle mean literally open top or one where the top can be opened (convertable) ?

[Boatbuoy]

Ok, here goes!

I'm a professional designer and also a graduate of the same course at Coventry University as Mark, the guy who's project it is. I must also stress that I don't know him and I've never met him.

The great (or, sometimes not so great) thing about design is that it will always, without fail, prompt debate. No one will ever design something that will satisfy everyone, even something as highly regarded as the Spitfire (Supermarine, not Triumph!) will provoke someone to say "but I prefer the Mustang". There's no right, and there's no wrong.

There's nearly 1000 people in the company that I work for all working in their own specialist field, most of them have some kind of opinion on whatever we designers come up with. If I had a pound for every occasion where they'd offered me free design consultancy I could trade in my Cerbera for a Typhon! What I have to do is find a balance that attracts more potential customers to our model than the competition. Sometimes that means carrying over styling cues from previos designs, and sometimes I have to take a calculated risk and find a new direction. Often I have to combine the two.

Is Mark's design a TVR? That's a question that attracts a very personal response. Would a foriegn built Smolenski car be a TVR? Is a Cerbera with an LS conversion still genuine? It's up to you at the end of the day.

I'm sure this discussion is far from concluded, just like the design process...

Regards,
Olly

[dbv8]

phillpot said:

Moving on to the excellent RWYB article, anyone know what arm straps are and does "open top" vehicle mean literally open top or one where the top can be opened (convertable) ?

At York arm restraints are required for me when running 11's with the roof down.
If you keep the roof up you will be fine.
I have a pair and if some quick cars want to run roof down they can bolt mine into their cars on the 9th July.
I will have the roof up, as its easier to concentrate

[phillpot]

dbv8 said:

At York arm restraints are required for me when running 11's with the roof down.
If you keep the roof up you will be fine.
I have a pair and if some quick cars want to run roof down they can bolt mine into their cars on the 9th July.
I will have the roof up, as its easier to concentrate

Thanks but still doesn't explain what they are (or am i just a bit thick)? Bolt them in ? ?

[dbv8]

phillpot said:

Thanks but still doesn't explain what they are (or am i just a bit thick)? Bolt them in ? ?

Basically they are similar to a harness but just for your arms.
They can be fixed into the car for example at the seatbelt points or below the seat and you slip your wrists in the other ends. You can still reach everywhere you need to (except the video camera!) but they will restrict your arms from reaching out the window or above the roof line in the event of a crash.

[Zumbruk]

phillpot said:

Thanks but still doesn't explain what they are (or am i just a bit thick)? Bolt them in ? ?

I use a length of rope with a running loop at either end to go round my wrists and then loop the rope under the lap strap.

[Stevie Mojo]

Back onto the concept car, I personally think it takes a great deal of natural talent to design such a handsome car. And what's more, it's all TVR! Build it and stick a thunderous V8 in it please.