Thank Goodness for Anthony Lo, II
For those of you that don’t recall the first post with this title, I wrote about a wayward concept vehicle created by Bertone for Saab in the early part of this century.
Fortunately, today I’m not talking about a Saab misstep.
Mr. Lo has done very well with the Saab AeroX and Saab 9-4x concept vehicles, and I think that the 9x is a good one, too, I just don’t know how involved Anthony Lo was at the time that concept took shape. In any event, he’s created a fresh approach to design that seems to resonate with us, the Saab faithful, and hopefully with the prospective Saab buyers out there.
Other marques, even prestigious ones, haven’t had Saab’s success with concept vehicles of late.
For instance, get a load of this monstrosity from none other than Porsche!! (well, it’s attributed to Porsche, anyway):
The Porsche Traveller concept vehicle is one of the ugliest things ever to occupy space on a designer’s hard drive. Certainly, it’s uglier than the legendary Pontiac Aztek, even uglier than the Toyota RiN. As pointed out by Jeff, the independent design effort isn’t official, but it still stinks.
So, do you still think that Mr. Lo’s talents are wasted at GM? He could be designing at Porsche, after all…
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Hey EnG, I definitely value your posts…very informed and fun, but I have to interject…
This isn’t an official Porsche design, it’s independent by some moron named Ivan Volkov. It’s as much sponsored by Saab as the fake Motortrend rendering of a Saab Mini-fighter:
http://images.motortrend.com/future/future_vehicles/112_0804_01z+saab_mini+front_three_quarter_drawing.jpg
So no, not a rendering of a future Porsche. Which is not to say future Porsches will be pretty. Take for example, Top Gear’s rendering of an undisguied Panamera:
http://www.autospies.com/images/users/autoblog/porsche-panamera-3.jpg
Also of note is recent news that the 911 might be switching to Haldex for AWD.
http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080327.003/will-porsche-carrera-4-switch-to-haldex-awd
Guess they saw that Turbo-X slalom test, huh?
And so it is. Thanks for the input, Motor Trend & Autoblog left out that little detail. EnG
I actually really like the Panamera, it has the potential to be the sportiest large 4-door car ever made, and Porsche has been wanting to build a car like this since the 80’s.
It’s going to look every bit as good as the Cayman.
I can understand the Haldex switch though, Porsche already uses a wet-clutch AWD system so it would make sense to save development costs by switching to Haldex. They may also be interested in an ELSD type device to keep the rear in check on the 911s.