VW 1-liter Concept Design Philosophy Trickles Up

[Frank Lee]

The design elements don't speak to each other.

^That. Seems the younger set is more open to that but I'm old school, I like design to flooooowwwww.

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by sendler

This car obviously has nothing to do with the VW economy champ.

Lamborghini is a VW Group badge. They're cousins.

Originally Posted by Sven7

Thanks, but I also graduated from CCS in Transportation Design (glad to see that site is back online!). I don't want to be obnoxious about this, but Lamborghini knows better than to put that stuff out. The design elements don't speak to each other. It's just not a quality product.

I left off the ''. I knew you'd graduated, but I didn't realize that's your alma mater.

Originally Posted by kach22i

I went back to the original link which you provided, the interior is the best part of the car.

Success!

Frank Lee & Sven7 -- the reason I offered the GRX (in lieu of a monoposto Yaris) is it has the Diablo sidewindows and a Constructivist air dam and flared rocker panels while most of the contours are more Biomorphic.

I don't care for the busy surface development myself, but I don't think it is necessarily un-aerodynamic.

[freebeard]

Designboom showed an overhead view.

I'd like to see something morphed 50% between this and this Audi Rosenmeyer Concept:


...and for sake of completness the Yaris monoposto (snicker):