Photoshop an "AeroSmart," win a Smart ForTwo model... and now maybe cash (Jan6/2010)

[RobertSmalls]

lol... Botsapper's entry is even better than the "1g Insight painted to look like a Smart" that I was cooking up.

[botsapper]

'LilBob' More food in the buffet is always good to see.

[binarycortex]

antenna delete
mirror delete
front end mod
kamm-back
rear wheel skirt
moonies
roof chop and profile
front and rear wheel deflectors
smooth undertray (invisible)

[diesel_john]

Originally Posted by botsapper

Fun entry for discussion purposes.



Hope it is still in the spirit of the fun discussion.

Fun entry my eye, this is what a car is suppose to look like, folks.
This makes the 2009 models look like fred flintstones' car.

[Piwoslaw]

So we've got a basjoosed Smart, an aptera'ed Smart, but still no geo-metro'ed Smarts...

[botsapper]

Piw,

Curious what's so aero-special about the Cultus/Swift/Metro (+ Smart). To me it is a very conventional two-box hatchback. It's high FE is because of its very low weight & three-cylinder power. I was going to try to make a Smart-etro but there was nothing special about the shape/s.

By the way, I've always been intrigued by the famous Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion. The PSed 'Smartera' was a logical 'knock-on-the forehead' Frankentstein experiment. Putting together a clean but very compact front-engine compartment/passenger cabin with a beautifully formed tapered end. This could be a tribute to that 'ahead-of-its-time' aero-form.

[botsapper]

Thanx Diesel J,

Everyone has been sketching this on their notebooks, napkins, dirty windshields & shower doors for many of the ecomodders in this site.

Someone has to put it together.

[tasdrouille]

Love the Smartera. It is very feline in profile. Looks like a stretched cougar's head and neck or something.

[botsapper]

Tas,

I see the whiskers, ears & the eyes now!!! I thought of fugu, lethal sushi lunch.

[botsapper]

Had time to make the front.