Toyota FT-1 Concept First Look

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vendredi 17 janvier 2014
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Toyota FT 1 Concept Front Three Quarters

A pen tip moves across a sheet of paper , leaving a thin graphite line . Perhaps a millimeter in diameter , it could be quickly erased. Or it could be the spark for the biggest performance cars that ever existed : perhaps 1966 Lamborghini Miura Marcello Gandini . Or 1937 Type 57 SC Jean Bugatti Atlantic Coupe . Very different designs, but both born of a simple arc on paper online. Alex Shen, Chief designer studio Calty Design Research, Toyota in Newport Beach , California , the words describing the style concept sports car came first - words like " sexy ", " honest ", " organic , "" Kick -Ass " Followed by proportions - . front / mid-engine , rear-wheel drive , just the right scale and a wild guess at the price - . maybe $ 60,000 " This is a Toyota ? "says Shen. "It should be affordable. " Only when the lines begin to appear. But when they did , it was an avalanche. Nearly every designer in the studio 65 person subject sketches, hundreds of them , many take the night, some sketched on towels noon, exploding the total number of lines Calty President , Kevin Hunter, and Shen team was slaughtered slowly to discover the best ideas. at least hurricane lines that would become their sports car was more than vague.

Let me come back here. Usually when people get cars, they are actually creating a plan, the development language is a contour line - define the "contour" between the positive space ( the car ) and the negative space ( the space around him ) . In the field of car designers , the language differs , for them, the line is a "silhouette" . An outline is applied to a surface to understand its form. Shen , however, it would be a challenge for her figure does not remember that brand

The canted roofline creates visual stress without unbalancing the overall shape.

4 Toyota Supra . This is emblematic : a long nose melted , sharp rise windshield , roof ridge waterproof , long and deep for a mini ducktail flip. And it was a line Shen and colleagues simultaneously embraced and struggled to resist. Their task was to create a Toyota sports car for the future, a stressed by any name, " FT- 1 " dot - for the future Toyota -One - that reminds them stillborn 2007 FT -HS Project and parallel Lexus "LF" ( Lexus Future) naming scheme . The FT -1, made its debut at the North American International Auto Show , is not a "real car," but a " concept car " - a three-dimensional frenzy winks and sideways glances , sucking balls and restraints brutal generators, all of us peeking behind a curtain where the future is being created . This is the essence of a powerful potential new sports car which is currently an instant body turbulence, frozen fiberglass shock.

When Calty launched its plan to Nagoya headquarters of Toyota, the timing could not have been better. At Auto Show 2011 Tokyo , Akio Toyoda insisted : "Now we have a new slogan, " Fun to drive again. " And he made no secret of wanting a Supra car - . Restored as programming Calty was wise to the traps , too, have been down this road including five years earlier with its hybrid propulsion, Supra -esque FT -HS , a car was stillborn during the fall of the great recession. But with the healing of the world economy and the Toyota bar in the hands of a guy who was wearing a helmet to drive in the race Nürburgring 24 hours , the start button was pressed firmly with the blessing of Akio , in the house - . Supra sports car -esque Calty got the green light to become a concept car to be judged by the world a timetable has been . drawn, marked steps the team went to work Unlike the Supra , the FT -1 race fingerprints everywhere the wind is shit - . . . . tration by a bow dominated by a Formula 1 -inspired nose therefore, air from the heat sink is divided between the mouths of sharks as twins, each stuffed with electric fans sitting atop inclined separators whose shape is repeated above streaking signatures of light around hook intense, headlights triple LED .

Moving aft, the sides are deeply slashed by more air inlets which are themselves subsequently engulfed by rising rocker bursting suddenly in muscular rear wheel arches. The roof is a kind of double-bubble, and the frenzy rest nonstop all the way to a tail that reminds you of a prototype racing sports car, with Venturi tunnel openings, a dense network of 35 foglights LED tiny expandable wings, dual exhaust and storm-drain. None of this is by accident. During the gestation of the FT-1, Calty (involved in the development of the Toyota Camry NASCAR racer) frequently consulted nearby Toyota Racing Development for its shape was consistent with the engineering requirements of a sports car . The result is called "functional sculpture."

Red, which emphasizes highlights, was the only color ever considered.

Classiques " cars silhouette " - those you would be inclined to attract in its broad lines - are generally relaxed , fuselage simple shapes who speak tran - Quilly to you through their broad puddles of reflected light subtly . Think shapes, little mild balloons -ish years 50 and 60 - a very good example for me being the Lancia Aurelia B20.On other hand, " gesture " on the plan emphasizes on action and of the vitality . A good ( or bad) example de geste is 1984 Ferrari Testarossa , a very design , very busy. Draw, and your pencil comes alive trying to capture the long through strakes its gigantic gills radiator side. Recently , this kind of hyperactive automobile design , grand- sculpture seems be reemerging : the new Corvette, anyone? Gesture extreme of FT- 1 combines even more turbulent positive and negative space , somehow , this is both windswept and forwardly inclined .