I just find it personally highly irritating designers make concepts, that has no basis on reality. Why bother putting in the seat belts, but not the head supports. Since concept car needs no seat belts either. Specially 3 point ones. Like did the designer just like what a 3 point belt line hanging down the B pillar looks like?
So they signal “we know safety is a thing, that exists and must be a concern”, but then half ass it.
In practical, overly fancy, with way too much design flair than general public will tolerate I can get. Those are matters of taste mostly. Showing artistic license and maybe looking at feed back of… hey maybe one of our crazy concepts is so popular we make it to production.
But “not at all workable in the first place in reality” is another thing. It tells public nothing of the future and nor is it a good design study, since everyone knows “this whole interior is a whole redo, since it’s center pieces, the seats people sit in are just a full no-go”.
Those front headlights are a “well thats concept cars being concept cars, those get simplified. It would be way too much engineering and production cost to make those work. One could, but they won’t”.
That interior is “this is not even a concept of a passenger vehicle, since those seats can not carry road traffic passengers in”. It is a vaguely passenger vehicle shaped nostalgic kinetic sculpture.
Oh and all this specially since, I would like to see what their actual take is on how to make a modern working front passenger bench seat. How they marry the old 2CV bench with modern safety design requirements. Atleast on concept. At this stage it doesn’t need to be mechanically engineered to actually pass whiplash track without snapping in half. However I would like to see a concept of a design how to make it work on ergonomic and base interior volume packaging level.
I can see your point. I do prefer concepts closer to reality as well. I will refrain from judging though until I see how much of the design was retained (or could be retained) while of course complying with all safety regulations. A design is still much about marketing, it often just gets serious with the prototype. I’d also prefer it another way.
That said, the Renault Twingo did keep its funky headlights, although with a bit more financial headroom at 20k EUR instead of 15k.
This is a concept car, even if it is supposedly already the basis for a production car, those unrealistic aspects are definitely going to go.
I just find it personally highly irritating designers make concepts, that has no basis on reality. Why bother putting in the seat belts, but not the head supports. Since concept car needs no seat belts either. Specially 3 point ones. Like did the designer just like what a 3 point belt line hanging down the B pillar looks like?
So they signal “we know safety is a thing, that exists and must be a concern”, but then half ass it.
In practical, overly fancy, with way too much design flair than general public will tolerate I can get. Those are matters of taste mostly. Showing artistic license and maybe looking at feed back of… hey maybe one of our crazy concepts is so popular we make it to production.
But “not at all workable in the first place in reality” is another thing. It tells public nothing of the future and nor is it a good design study, since everyone knows “this whole interior is a whole redo, since it’s center pieces, the seats people sit in are just a full no-go”.
Those front headlights are a “well thats concept cars being concept cars, those get simplified. It would be way too much engineering and production cost to make those work. One could, but they won’t”.
That interior is “this is not even a concept of a passenger vehicle, since those seats can not carry road traffic passengers in”. It is a vaguely passenger vehicle shaped nostalgic kinetic sculpture.
Oh and all this specially since, I would like to see what their actual take is on how to make a modern working front passenger bench seat. How they marry the old 2CV bench with modern safety design requirements. Atleast on concept. At this stage it doesn’t need to be mechanically engineered to actually pass whiplash track without snapping in half. However I would like to see a concept of a design how to make it work on ergonomic and base interior volume packaging level.
I can see your point. I do prefer concepts closer to reality as well. I will refrain from judging though until I see how much of the design was retained (or could be retained) while of course complying with all safety regulations. A design is still much about marketing, it often just gets serious with the prototype. I’d also prefer it another way.
That said, the Renault Twingo did keep its funky headlights, although with a bit more financial headroom at 20k EUR instead of 15k.