Body Kits and the Evolution of the Car
The car has evolved a lot since the early days at the beginning of the twentieth century. That may be understandable because it has more than one hundred years. What is amazing is that even if evolved without pause for years. One would think at some point evolution will tapered off and slows. But even today after more than a century of automobile development that continues to develop at great speed. Disruptive technologies continue to grow for various subsystems that make up the car.
So what drives this constant evolution of the car? After all cars are not natural creatures who will take care of biological mother. This may not appear so but the evolution of the car is the combined effect of several initiatives taken by companies and individuals. The corporation is understandable because they invested a lot of money in research and are therefore likely to lead the evolution.
The amazing part is how individuals have contributed. And among these were the people who modify their cars with body kits and show ways how the car could be arranged better. Those pioneers has been so successful that many car manufacturers now offer factory fitted body kit.
Therefore when you buy a new car as the owner your role is not limited by the user. You also can become contributors to the evolution of the car. When you go out and express your style with installing car body kits you might be able to lead the industry into the next level in car styling.
Of course you will not be alone when you would look to encourage more car styling envelope. You will have a kit car body designer talent to work with you. These talented designers may not get as much visibility do car designers, but they worked hard to create some fantastic new designs. Using your imagination and your familiarity with the car, you will be able to come up with a unique style that causes people to stop and admire the car.
Automotive Concept Cars
The concept car is a term that the majority of car owners or drivers know nothing about. I always thought that a concept car is a clay model made for a new car style. That’s nowhere near close, because the concept car is a real car is actually built and ready to drive. A concept vehicle or show car prototypes intended to be driven around to show the concept, new style, technology, etc.
The concept vehicle is usually displayed at the show a big motor in the world. They appear to consumers to gauge their reaction to the radical design changes or concepts. The idea of the concept or show cars developed by GM designer Harley Earl. Auto concept of real cars, but never go into production directly. This must be changed for safety, practicality and cost to become a production vehicle is not just a concept vehicle.
The concept car has the engine extreme or radical, design, materials, layout, doors or things that are not found in automobile production. Most concept cars never get past scale models or computer images. A small number of concept vehicles that actually fully functional and some can not even move faster than 10 mph is safe. After a concept vehicle that is used, usually the cars were destroyed but some companies to survive in museums or in storage. Year 1954 Lincoln Futura concept car was at a custom car shop for years until it was used as the Batmobile in Batman TV series in 1966.
There are several well-known concept car for one reason or another. Buick Y-Job designed in 1930 by Harley Earl and is considered the first concept vehicle. General Motors Le Sabre was built in 1951 introduced a 12-volt electricity and aluminum 215 ci V8. The 1959 Cadillac Cyclone was one of the final design of Harley Earl. Chevrolet Volt is one of the first plug in hybrid electric vehicle concept.
A concept vehicle that I would never want to see it in production is the nucleon Ford, nuclear powered cars. MIT worked with Frank Gehry to develop a vehicle concept car MIT. Pontiac’s Bonneville Special Pontiac’s first two-seater sports car, and debuted at the 1954 Motorama. Other Pontiac Club de Mer is the all stainless steel sports car from 1956. The Megagamma Lancia is the prototype for the current minivan.
Concept cars, or cars designed according to a certain theme or older model, are by and large prototypes introduced at car and motor shows to estimate consumer response and appeal.
Combining the best of modern technology with the sleek lines of tried and time-tested cars from the past, concept cars are often tentative feelers put out by automobile companies to test the waters before ‘diving’ into serious production.
The automobile industry being a multi billion dollar industry, car manufactures alike see the benefit of these widely attended car shows. The manufactures have an opportunity to gleam a great deal of valuable information from these shows at a relatively low cost.
Concept cars were first introduced by designer Harley Earl of General Motors in the 1950s. It was for the concept of a car that offered buyers state-of-the-art motor car engineering in a new design which was really a version of a senior theme. This gained almost instant popularity with the universal public.
Recognizing a winning horse when they saw one, General Motors further publicized the concept and their car, through its traveling Motorama shows of that period. Beautiful to behold, concept cars show off radical, futuristic designs, powerful engines and sometimes even controversial technology.
However, alluring as these concept cars may appear under the spotlight, many of them often obtain changes before being put on the production line by their manufacturers, and all of them are subjected to alterations that make them more suitable, and affordable, to their target markets.
An from the eyes of the public these changes to the car are often very drastic changes. This of course, is after the study of the data from these shows. Which again as become a valuable asset to the car manufacturers. These car shows alone save the manufacturer several million dollars. Just knowing that a car is not deemed acceptable or needs a few modifications before going to production.
The majority of concept cars seen at auto exhibitions such as the Geneva Motor Show are the dream rides of automobile fans and racing enthusiasts, but are more often than not only show models made of wax, clay, metal, fibreglass and plastic. In fact many concept cars never even reach this phase due to impractical design glitches and price factors.


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