Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Interior Development
This car can carry four persons and has dedicated storage space for each of them where they can put their Laptop bags and other stuff directly. These storage spaces are open shelf type on instrument panel itself. It also has a flexible seating system, where user can use multiple patterns for seating arrangements like facing at each other, facing in same direction, like a flat bed and many others.
The car is compact and has a length of 3665 mm and height of 1695 mm with a wheel base of 2440 mm. Li-ion batteries are under the floor with control equipments in the front and rear ends of the car. Wheels are powered by hub mounted electric motors. This car can be charged on any of the parking spots. Its interiors are flexible and simple and easy to clean and maintain. Materials used are recyclable, durable with a replaceable covering on it for cleaning.
Concept Anyway Interiors
Concept-anyway is a public car for commuters in the city. It is made to run inside the central zone of the city using electricity as a propulsion fuel. This car is a part of PubliCAR service which will be taken care by the Victorian government initially and can become a semi government body later on. User has a flexible access to these cars as well as service using different interfaces and mediums provided, for example using their own mobile phone, websites, car instrument panel or kiosk at parking spots.
It can be used by various user groups like business commuters, students, working people for their primary as well as secondary needs including shopping and cultural meetings.
The Your Concept Car Interior
YACC designers describe the car's interior as more living room than cockpit, replete with modern furnishing fabrics. The interior design hints at the role women played in the cockpit with the ponytail notch in the headrest, the additional thought for storage, and interchangeable seat covers and carpeting fabrics.
"Let's bring the living room into the car," said Maria UCLA, Color and Trim designer. "Let's use materials, not obscured by coats of shiny enamel."
The interior design of the car is adjustable. The seat pads can be exchanged for different colors and fabrics, including leather, linen, wool buckle (a knit fabric), or a shimmering yellow-green embroidered seat pad. The carpet can also be swapped out for different styles. The idea of exchangeable carpet and seat pads is to give owners options when they are tired of looking at the same fabric or if the fabric becomes worn. Changing the interior gives owners a sense of a new car. These exchangeable seat covers and carpet are also washable.
Space and storage are maximized throughout the YACC interior. The gear shifter, usually positioned between the driver and passenger seat, is located on the steering column, and the parking brake is electronic and integrated further increasing interior space.
With the gear shifter and parking brake out of the way, the center console in the YACC provides significantly more storage. The console is divided into three compartments. A shallow compartment is available for keys, mobile phones, coins, and other small items. Slide back this top compartment to reveal a larger compartment for a handbag. Yet another compartment is available for a notebook computer. The center console also features a cooler and a wastebasket.
Moving from front seat to back seat, cinema-style seats in the back can be folded up to allow more space for luggage and other cargo. Designers found that drivers use their back seats more often for cargo than for passengers. When there are passengers, they put the seat down as they enter.Adaptable Car Interior
Car interiors are becoming more and more like wombs. Like the double-curved exteriors. These forms are understood to provide a lovely sense of security to those inhabit them. Well, that may be, but there are also people who want their car interior look like it was made for them, to suit their purposes, their lifestyles. It is strange that we put so much attention to space, function and adaptability in architecture and so little in the spaces in which we transport ourselves. Av ions Vising has therefore come up with excellent solutions to provide the client with all options to create his or herown interior.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
The Exterior Look
The clean, sculpted body contours of the 9-X Air give fresh expression to Saab’s Scandinavian-inspired design ethos and its aircraft heritage. The purposeful stance, with minimal overhangs front and rear, is complemented by a single, wraparound window graphic, smooth uncluttered body surfaces and ‘ice block’ lighting themes. 
The exterior look is defined by the prominent C-pillars, or buttresses, that provide the rear mounting for the unique Canopy Top - a powered, flat-folding roof developed from a Targa top principle. This innovation in convertible design, which distinguishes between a folding roof and a complete folding soft-top or hood assembly, is subject to a Saab patent application. 
Ambient Lighting
Available halo lighting provides a soft glow of light that fills the cabin and offers the driver and front passenger the opportunity to keep an eye on activity in back. Available personal, targeted LED lights allow passengers to read, write or play at night without distracting the driver. Focused LED lights also shine down onto cup holders from the overhead rail console. Load up Grand Caravan with confidence in the brightly lit space provided convenient illuminated entry. Available on Grand Caravan SXTInterior Observation Mirror
Interior Observation Mirror
Keep your eye on rear seat passengers with the standard interior observation mirror.Premium Floor Console
Make the most of Grand Caravan's flexible capacity with the available premium sliding floor console located between the two front seats. The three-part console is made up of a sliding storage bin, sliding upper tray with four large cup holders and storage and a large storage bin that can be used in multiple configurations. The cup holders have removable, dishwasher-safe, liners.Manual Adjustments
There is also a more expensive heavier Clubsport pedals option with adjustable pedals but those are very pricy ($200). Don’t know if they are worth the extra money. Here’s a tutorial on adjusting those pedals: Video tutorial Clubsport
So should you buy this? I’d say only if you are a car simulation enthusiast given it’s price and limited availability. Otherwise if you love more realistic driving and/or love to drive with clutch & shifter simulation I think it’s a great choice. The wheel itself feels a lot more realistic and heavier and while it won’t necessarily give you faster track times it does give you a more realistic drive.I have to say initial impressions weren’t that favorable but once I tweaked several settings like the force feedback and drift settings I love it. Also using manual clutch at first seemed bit tough to drive but it does add a new dimension/difficulty to the game.Note one thing to point out is that some people reported some quality issues with the wheel and support can be a bit slow. But warranty I believe is 2 years.I do hope that we’ll see more competition in the future and hopefully Logitech will consider bringing their products to the XBOX 360 as well since they are more comparable and less pricey. But for now this is the only choice if you want a higher quality steering wheel with manual shift capability.
The Fanatec steering wheel feels a lot more solid and more realistic in size. The size of the wheel is about one step up. See comparison of the 2 wheels stacked on top of each other below:
Buttons: at first glance you’d think that the Fanatec wheel has less buttons. However some are little bit hidden. For instance the 4 way pad and the back/start buttons are at the bottom. It has in addition shoulder buttons (but unfortunately also no analog pad to look around).The button layout takes little bit time to get used as for instance the A/B/X/Y buttons are not layout in 4 directions so this makes it harder to intuitively look around using those buttons.
Handling is responsive, suspension keeps out the bumps and engine noise is barely audible on acceleration. The base models have good stereos, and the Bose or Upgrade in the Acura give you 440+ watts for the Opera lovers in the group. Me, I’m good with my classic 80’s as long as Billy Joel and George Winston sound right. The trunk space is ample with folding rear seats for those extra-big shopping moments.
