Exterior Design of a Car
Posted by admin in Exterior Design on May 20, 2011
A car’s exterior design creates most of the initial impact of the car model in the market. How it looks like from the outside makes clients interested on how it would look like on the inside. This is the reason exterior design professionals are extremely important in the car design industry. They are the minds behind the visible aspect of car development. This is a group of professionals who have well-built background in industrial design and vast knowledge in the car model trend.
In designing the exterior phase of the car, the designers engage in massive research of the effects of the surfaces in the car’s functionalities and visual impact. The surfaces of the car usually affect its total aerodynamic propulsion as well as the engine’s performance (fuel consumption per unit of time).
Many successful car manufacturing companies such as Dodge have introduced high quality car models over the years. These companies invest on long-term feasibility studies to accumulate substantial basis for their designs. A huge portion of the funding is spent on exterior design as it requires subsidiary procedures such as clay modeling and body in white.
Clay modeling is the process of molding the exterior surfaces of the car using industrial plasticine. Most industrial plasticine or clay is a wax-based material made of synthetic materials with a mixture of sulfur. However, some car manufacturing companies, like Dodge Edmonton companies, use sulfur-free plasticine because of the effect of sulfur in the mass of the mold.
This clay model is the impression of the actual car. The accurate surfaces of the mold are created by a specially designed machine that is different from the actual machine used during the body in white process. Most car manufacturers, such as Dodge Edmonton manufacturers, use 3 and 5 axis milling machine to carve a massive amount of clay through a wooden or metallic prefabricated form surface called body in white. Read the rest of this entry »
Futuristic Car Design
Posted by admin in Car Design on May 20, 2011
What is in a car? And what is especially in car design? Perhaps you hanker for the newest, latest, sleekest look or perhaps you simply think that futuristic looks are plain odd. Design can also be fuel efficient.
Car design teams such as the one in Mercedes-Benz often look for new designs for next-generation appeal. This time around, it is all about fuel efficiency- and new sci-fi looks. Mercedes-Benz took its inspiration from something a little odd this time around- the tropical box fish.
The car is rather small, and has the sci-fi feel to it. The four cylinder gas-saving machine will return an amazing 84 miles per gallon at the constant speed of 54 miles per hour. This could be revolutionary as far as gas efficiency goes in new cars- a milestone in the industry. It can achieve the speed of 62 miles per hour in around 8 seconds- not bad at all.
The code-named ‘Bionic’ won’t be coming to a dealership near you, but it will heavily influence the design of future cars to come. The concept car was mainly for show, and to demonstrate new complicated fuel cell designs that save you money at the gas station.
No on is for sure when we will see changes such as this, but coming from Mercedes-Benz, it isn’t going to be cheap. Even at four cylinders- this car itself would cost much more than the average car. Expect 5 years at the latest to enjoy the gas-saving technology.
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