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The Mix has rearward sliding rear doors and a forward sliding front passenger door and the driver's door is a conventional front-hinged design. Both doorway entrances lack pillars obstructing entry when both front and rear doors are open, resulting in a width of 1,480 mm (58.3 in). [ 4 ]
Three-box form Alfa Romeo Giulia (Type 105) sedan/saloon Three-box form A categorization based on overall form design using rough rectangle volumes. In the case of the three-box form, there is a "box" delineating a separate volume from the a-pillar forward, a second box comprising the passenger volume, and third box comprising the trunk area—e.g., a Sedan.
Designers at work in 1961. Standing by the scale model's left front fender is Dick Teague, an automobile designer at American Motors Corporation (AMC).. Automotive design is the process of developing the appearance (and to some extent the ergonomics) of motor vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, coaches, and vans.
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McKinley Thompson envisioned the Warrior being a cost efficient car in order to be mass produced, the mass production of the Warrior would help third world countries with job opportunities. The Warrior was planned to be made of Royalex plastic. Ford declined to work on the project in 1967, when they believed the car would not sell enough units ...
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The design paradigm of sloping the tail to reduce drag was carried to an extreme on cars such as the Cunningham C-5R, [14] resulting in an airfoil effect lifting the rear of the car at speed and so running the risk of instability or loss of control. The Kammback decreased the area of the lifting surface while creating a low-pressure zone ...
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Virgil Exner was adopted by George W. and Iva Exner as a baby.Virgil showed a strong interest in art and automobiles. He went to Buchanan High School in Buchanan, Michigan then studied art at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana but, in 1928, dropped out after two years due to lack of funds.