INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Is it possible to have too much of a good thing When it comes to tech in our cars then Mark Adams, head of design at Opel and Vauxhall seems
new concept GT X Experimental, which Adams and his design team have been working on for a while now
going to be on offer.Initially, and rather unexpectedly, the designer explains how working on this particular car concept has allowed him to
pare down the tech, with a concerted effort by him and his team to trim away the tech fat and end up with something minimalist and
Vauxhall is generally seen as being a provider of sensible cars), but with the GT X Experimental, Adams sees the company as having the
opportunity to zing things up a bit
And, although this is firmly in concept territory, the GT X Experimental has a few tricks up its sleeve that could be implemented in
The manufacturing giant Group PSA acquired the Vauxhall and Opel brands in 2017 and Carlos Tavares, Group PSA CEO clearly wants to develop a
around that and he wanted real clarity
In parallel to that I was working with my team on how we take those values forward
the GT X Experimental sets the tone for new models in the 2020s
It is, in essence, a five-door, all-electric, coupe-style compact SUV
Of course, it is also a concept, but it packs plenty potential on the innovation front
There are also more radical styling flourishes, which says Vauxhall, is the first physical representation of how its production-vehicle
design will evolve in the coming years
challenging, especially for a car that is just over four metres long
highlight the radical curves, which around the back of the roofline offer up a whiff of what made the Vauxhall Adam city car so good to look
And then, similarly, how could we take the moves in interior technology going forwards and bring that into an interior that was bold and
The dashboard is dominated by a large expanse of digital screen technology, dubbed Pure Panel
Controls are less rather than more, with the emphasis on giving the driver what they really need, rather than lots of tech fluff that they
with less superficial stuff brushed aside
That said; there is still apparently the built-in concept of being able to take a selfie from the dash
On each end of the dashboard there are electronic views of the road behind, views that are captured by small cameras that protrude from the
But, if you take all of the things we did and we did all those for a reason then actually that fits in very nicely with
They need to go and illustrate whatever those brand values are
Every car has its challenges though
Small cars are usually the biggest challenge because they have all the packaging constraints, technology constraints, cost constraints
Pedestrian protection is hard to do while crash protection is even harder
design that Vauxhall would subsequently like to roll out in production vehicles coming sooner, rather than later, despite them being purely
concept creations at present
team went on to spend several weeks trying out many different iterations of the Vizor design, checking that it could work on other models
will be coming into production
interesting as time rolls on
There were limitations in the process
Whereas now we can do so much with CAD modelling and simulations, all sorts before you even go physical
which also come under the umbrella ownership of Group PSA
All of our brands have a very distinctive role to play and all are different from each other
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