All New Hooniverse Concept Clinic: Proposal #1

February 2, 2015

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We all love concept cars. Without concept cars a motorshow is just like visiting a whole bunch of car dealerships under one roof, only with somebody rather more attractive than usual demanding that you sign up to register your interest. Concept cars are there to draw you onto the stand, and they do so whether or not there’s any feasibility that they’ll ever make production. It’s the thought that counts, though.
The trouble is, by the time a concept car arrives at a show we’ve usually seen it on the internet already, which means the surprise is gone. Well, Hooniverse has a solution to the tedium of waiting for the next automotive what-if: We’ll create our own. Starting today Hooniverse is setting out to be the Product Clinic for the entire motor industry. We can create an idea, discuss it amongst ourselves and then decide whether it’s worth pursuing, and any industry executive who happens to tune in can get an inside line on what The Hooniverse wants. And for all this we’ll charge them not a single dollar.
Make your decision on the first Hooniverse Concept Car after the jump.

Click to enbiggen the first Hooniverse concept car

Unlike most actual design departments, when I get the urge to “design” a car I start off with a completely blank sheet of paper. Aside from occasional flights of pure fantasy a company will usually have some kind of goal established before the first stylist sharpens their pencil. Fortunately, the Hooniverse design department is not tied by any feasibility constraints, budget or technology limitations, consequently I have no idea what we’ll end up with when I put pen to paper. And so it was to be with our first proposal.
As this sketch progressed my construction lines gradually migrated across the paper until the car was actually pointing in a completely different direction to how I first envisaged it. It could have looked like anything. I was aiming somewhere in the region of a two-door coupé, but had no specific idea in terms of size, market position, that kind of thing. In the end the general feel seems to be something between a BMW 2 Series and 4 Series size-wise. Then, as the lines converged at the front of the car, a grille, and therefore an identity, began to emerge.
Could that be a Lincoln grille? It looks American to me (and I must admit the greenhouse reminds me a bit of a Cadillac Allante), so that’s what I’m going with.
So, Hooniverse Concept Proposal #1 is a Compact Personal Luxury Coupé. Now its over to you. Who should it be built by? And if it shouldn’t be built, what changes would you make before it could?
And, importantly, what should it be named? Please note Homer and Thundercougarfalconbird have already been discounted.
(All sketches produced by and copyright of Chris Haining / Hooniverse 2015. Obviously the perspective and wheel roundness would be much improved on the production vehicle)

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RoadworkUK is the online persona of Gianni Hirsch, a tall, awkward gentleman with a home office full of gently decomposing paper and a garage full of worthless scrap metal. He lives in the village of Moistly, which is a safe distance from London and is surrounded by enough water and scenery to be interesting. In another life, he has designed, sold, worked on and written about cars in exchange for small quantities of money.