Friday 29th September 2006

Extreme concept from Chevy

WTCC car of the future?

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Chevrolet is drawing the crowds in Paris today with its 'WTCC Ultra' concept car. It's Chevy's vision of a new generation of touring car.

Design chief David Lyon said: “We wanted to explore the concept of a Chevrolet muscle car reinvented for Europe.”

But unlike most styling studies, the WTCC Ultra is a fully working vehicle, powered by a 190PS common-rail diesel engine.

The car is also as global as the Chevrolet brand, with engineers and designers from all over the world working as a team to bring it to production. The initial concept and early design work was carried out in South Korea at the GM DAT Advanced Design Studio, while the dynamic look was the responsibility of 25-year old Ewan Kingsbury – a graduate of Coventry University now working for GM’s Australian styling department.

Colour and materials design was the work of Breony Crittenden, also of GM Australia, while the design was coordinated by engineers in the USA and Switzerland. Final construction of the prototype took place in Japan, with the help of British motorsport specialists Ray Mallock Ltd, the technical partner of the Chevy WTCC Touring Car team.

[tony*t3]

Its easy to draw an exciting concept, however, most companies can only consistanly manage to fail to deliver anything even 1/10th as exciting as their concept work.

[Blue Tomcat]

Oooh, goody! Another mobile paraffin stove to fart and shit itself into my cockpit in five years time. Apart from our group of misanthropes, does no-one notice that, in general, lovers of the motor-car are known as PETROL-heads?

When will I buy a car that runs on central heating oil?

That'll be the Day, you!


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