RE: Toniq-R

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Toniq R designer

2 posts

261 months

Wednesday 19th June 2002
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Hi there, I am part of the design team at the University of Huddersfield who have created the Toniq-R pre-production prototype and am more than happy to justify any of your design queries.

Firstly may I thank you all for your honest comments, the more the better.

The car was designed to bring the Lotus 7 shape upto date, we have used the Westfield chassis as a basis and this defined the hard points (fixed points that we couldn't change whatever). The advantages of basing it on this chassis is that tooling for production would be similar to that currently in use, so the concept could be made in reality almost immediately.

There are no mudguards on the concept as this is the lightweight racetrack version, all road cars would have four cycle wings similar to the Lotus 340R. Further developments and time would enable us to fit the cycle wings to mock up a road going version, as well as mirrors and a Formula 1 style wind deflector.

The electric blue line running through the interior houses a fuel cut off switch at one end and the petrol tank cap is mimicked at the other end.

The simple lines flowing through the car accelerate as they approach the nose before sweeping off again. This has been done along with the aggresive twin fanged nose to enhance the cars taught appearance.

The aluminium side ticks emphasise the Toniq-R's lightweight design by exposing this raw material.

MajorClanger

749 posts

269 months

Wednesday 19th June 2002
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Hi there, I am part of the design team at the University of Huddersfield who have created the Toniq-R pre-production prototype and am more than happy to justify any of your design queries.

During the original article in which PHers were asked to comment on a selection of designs, did you find any of the comments useful or were the comments too forthright to be constructive and useful?

MC

danmangt40

296 posts

283 months

Wednesday 19th June 2002
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I love it. gimme.

Toniq R designer

2 posts

261 months

Wednesday 19th June 2002
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Yes we did take all your thoughts into consideration. In total there were about 70 comments, all straight to the point, loving or hating it - but that’s what we like.

The reason that we actually asked for the Pistonhead reader’s opinions was because Westfield were apprehensive about production feasibility having seen these initial sketches and then dropped all support to us. All your views encouraged us to go our own way and produce a car with the character of what a lightweight 21st century Lotus 7 should be like.

Come and have a look at the car yourself, at the University of Huddersfield from Saturday 22nd June to Wednesday 26th June at the Transport, Industrial and Product design show where there will be many other interesting design projects as well as 15 more new car concepts – all quarter scale models.

Roadrunner

2,690 posts

266 months

Saturday 22nd June 2002
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At some point in the future I'd like to by a pure track day toy. It certainly won't be a 7 rip off. The only car's I would consider are the new generation XTR / Radical / anything else that looks like it was designed this side of the millenium. Good work, keep it up.

Alex

9,975 posts

283 months

Monday 24th June 2002
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Its obviously not in road spec. Its just a concept to show off their ideas. To be road legal it would need cycle wings, windsrceen etc.



A windscreen is not required for SVA.

pdad

6 posts

261 months

Monday 24th June 2002
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Yep like the general look, will probably scare off the old flat cap types though. It looks twenty first century right enough but I would like to see what it looks like with the mud guards and the windscreens on. It just now needs someone with some balls to put it into production.

pdad

6 posts

261 months

Monday 24th June 2002
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Yep like the general look, it will probably scare off the old flat cap types though. It certainly looks twenty first century and I would like to see it with the mud guards and the windscreens fitted. It just now need someone with some balls to put it in production.

fuoriserie

4,560 posts

268 months

Thursday 27th June 2002
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I really like your new take on a new lotus 7 for the 21st. century, in fact I've designed a new version myself using any lotus 7 lookalike chassis, but updating the styling. I'm working on a prototype and hopefully some financing will come through by the end of the year to finish up the project.(anyone interested?)
I also think that creating a new version of a Lotus 7 is always going to be hard, but I wish the TONIQ great success!
Check out my website for my version of a 21st. century lotus 7.
Ciao
Italo
www.fuoriseriedesign.com

mattjbatch

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1,502 posts

270 months

Thursday 27th June 2002
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Its obviously not in road spec. Its just a concept to show off their ideas. To be road legal it would need cycle wings, windsrceen etc.



A windscreen is not required for SVA.


It would need some sort of deflector though. Renault Spiders fail for this reason.