That looks significantly better. Shame really. But hey, it’s a really nice design and there’s always an opportunity to reuse it.
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l a m b c h o p
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Although it’s been 5 days since this thread was last replied to, I will continue to grant control to @Maxbombe for the next round - if they do not reply with confirmation to set up another round in 48 hours, I will make a another post enabling the second place winner rights for the next round.
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I’ll take the next challenge, I was just a bit busy recently. I should be able to make the next round today or tommorow.
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The Crowd Sourcing Competition 33: The Revolution of Spander
Or how a company transforms by changing head.
Since Jean Spander, the founder of Automobiles Spander retired at the end of the '80s, all CEOs were former members of Spander designing team “Spander Design”, making it the actual decision center of the company. Since then this organization caused a lot of conflicts between the design team and other parts of the company, from the engineers to the accounting team.
Engineering was rushed, management was chaotic, finances choked. All of them had at some point to bend at the will of the designers.
The situation did improve over the years, and the company started to grow better in the 2010s, even though the management situation didn’t move too much.
But this is about to change.
The year is 2025, and the meek success of the last SP model, the flagship of the company, isn’t to the taste of the board of directors. They decided to appoint a new CEO without consulting Spander Design, hoping an outsider would be able to give the company the reorganization it needs.
The new CEO François Renverse, was appointed and declared he wanted to deeply restructure the company, make it more viable and future-proof, and announced a new Spander SP.
Spander designers weren’t pleased with all, and all went on strike. The board of directors is now very concerned, as the company never faced this situation in the past. Negotiating with designers has proven to be useless, their condition being the resignation of the new CEO.
But Mr. Renverse had an idea, what if he just bypassed Spander Design as a whole? What if he outsourced the design of the next generation SP?
And so the call for tender was launched, your company was informed, the future of Spander’s CEO is now in your hand.
Designing a new Spander SP in 2025
As said above, the SP has always been the flagship model of the company, and your task is to design a new one.
The SP has always been a light, sporty, and somewhat inexpensive car, with a striking design that makes heads turn.
Some guidelines :
-Model and Trim year must be 2020. (for a 2025 design challenge it’s good enough)
-Avoid making it too big, the SP models wheelbases are generally around 2.6m.
-The SP is a sport coupé, so it’s best to keep that philosophy.
You are quite free when it comes to design, as long as it is futuristic, original, striking yet realistic. As it is a designchallenge, you are free to make an EV prototype, just make it clear in the name of the proposal.
If you want to take inspiration from the previous Spanders to make it more “Spander-like”, you can take a look at these past designs :
More models can be found on the Spander page : Automobiles Spander
Just don’t make something boring and unoriginal, be crazy!
Submission naming
Model + Family: CSC 33 - Forum Username
Trim + Variant: Whatever you want
Submissions open on the 26th of July, Deadline is 7th of August .
Have fun!
(if anything is unclear please tell me)
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2025 Spander SP Hybrid Concept by GR’s Design ( GMD Racing Design )
Concept - get ready its long, hehe
the 2025 Spander SP Hybrid GR’s Design is a car design that combines the design elements of Spander design and combined with GMD Car Vision of the future, the result is a car that have both brands design elements, for GMD it is shown by the simplicity of the body line design as a base design and both front and back fascia base design which emphasising on vents functioning to cool the brakes and designwise to show and emphasis the car line and also to give sporty and hunkered down feel of high performance vehicle. for Spander however it is shown by the general overall car design with “redline” Spander clearly shown on the side to show the signature of Spander Redline design, the front DRL light which go cross the whole front fascia in straight line as a reminder of Spander O2 Project design , the overall side area also gives an impression from the 2019 Spander CK-R Concept but with more subdued feel to combine between Spander and GMD design concept, and lastly the rear fascia which have a distinct shape which is derived from Spander Badge; GMD design concept; and also the line of the car to make the “redline” of the car more shown as a dynamic flow from the side to the rear of the car.
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The Spander SP of 2025
I wanted to focus on the aerodynamics. I have no idea if they are good, but they look as if they are directing air in important and efficient ways i think.
I purposely didn’t put side intakes or vents at all on this car so that it was more obvious that it was “electric”
I integrated the Spander logo into the front and rear light bars.
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Design Ideas
The main idea is to establish a futuristic and technologically advanced vibe while also looks striking and sporty like a Spander SP should. To achieve this,I have tried to integrate the brake lights and turn signals into both the headlights and taillight.To make the car looks more futuristic and aerodynamic,rear view camera is used.There is a small tunnel at the front which exit at the bonnet and a big turbine at the rear.(Ideas stolen from Ferrari 488 Spider and recent Gordon Murray T50) I also made a pretty minimalist engine cover just to spice things up.
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Ooops! Forgot to mention submission is finished!
Thanks everyone for participating! I won't be able to do much for some time in terms of reviewing the proposals, but I promise something entertaining!
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any news?
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I’m sorry I’m starting to get enough time to seriously be working on the results. The winner has been chosen! Now I need to make something nice.
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The results
After receiving all the prototypes, the different key people from Spander were summoned. The CEO, a representative of the board of directors, a representative from Spander design, and a representative from the engineers.CEO: Thanks all of you for coming to this exceptional meeting. Let’s get to the point, we are going to review each proposition we received for the new spander SP.
Design: What if none are good enough for the Spander name?
CEO: I have to say I have yet to see any of the prototypes myself, so this will be… um, hopefully interesting.
Engineer: Well anything else rather Spander design is fine by me.
Shareholder: …
CEO: So, without further ado, um…bring out the first prototype!
Spander SP Venenatus by Yamaguchi Tokyo Design Studio
CEO: Starting good I see!
Design: It does look like a sports car, but it’s not a Spander.
CEO: …why?
Design: I’m not going to mention the weird front wheel fitment, but the overall shape doesn’t fit spander design language.
Engineer: But that’s the point!
CEO: Um… what do you think?
Shareholder: Well, it’s not bad, but I get how it lacks a bit of that Spander identity.
Design: It’s not daring enough.
Shareholder: Well, more like apart from the side red line, it doesn’t have enough “spander identity” cues.
CEO: So, this one won’t do?
Design: Yes.
Shareholder: I think.
Engineer: I don’t care.
CEO: …
CEO: Next car then!
Spander SP by Nobushigahara Design
by @Lazar
CEO: This one looks nice, isn’t it? It’s white with a red line on the side and hidden rear wheels!
Shareholder: It feels more Spander than the previous one for sure.
Design: I don’t like it.
CEO: …why?
Design: It looks too much like a race car, with its big front lip thing. The rear design also feels messy.
Design: The line is good, but it’s still not a Spander.
Shareholder: I have the feeling that you’re going to dislike every proposition.
Design: I will.
Engineer: …
CEO: Then, let’s see the next one…
george m997 car:
Spander SP Hybrid by GR’s Design
by @george_m997
Engineer: It kinda looks like one of our prototypes.
CEO: It means it looks like a Spander, isn’t it?
Design: Except it doesn’t really fits the “light sport” image.
Shareholder: Even though it looks Spander?
Design: It feels Spander, but not Spander SP.
Engineer: …
CEO: I’m still keeping it as a potential design proposition.
CEO: Let’s see the next one!
Spander SP Concept by Akai
by @yurimacs
CEO: Wow! I really like this one!
Shareholder: It sure looks excentric enough to be worthy of the Spander badge.
CEO: The front seems inspired by the previous SP as well, and I really like the rear.
Design: It’s no for me.
CEO: Why?
Design: The roofline doesn’t feel aerodynamic, which is one of the Spander most basic design cue.
Design: I also think there are too many red lines scattered all over the car, it lacks purity.
Design: The holes cut on the sides also doesn’t flow much in my opinion.
Engineer: …
CEO: Can we at least consider it a strong proposition?
Shareholder: I agree with that.
CEO: Let’s look at the next one.
Spander SP by LaVelle Studios
by @titleguy1
CEO: Ooooh, here is a quirky one! It’s quite high for a sports car!
CEO: The front lights resemble the ones of the previous SP.
Design: As much as I like LaVelle Studios’ designs, this one isn’t working for me.
CEO: But isn’t Spander all about quirky cars?
Design: Well, yes but actually no.
Design: You see, it’s all about coherence.
Shareholder: I think I agree with this. All-terrain vehicles must bear a lot of stress, it’s not really going well with the sophisticated sport design.
Shareholder: It’s neither an all-terrain nor a sports car, it’s not gonna work.
Design: The side cuts also feels a bit messy.
CEO: I guess it’s not gonna work then, let’s look at the next one…
Spander SP by [REDACTED]
Design: …
Shareholder: Oh-oh, again a very nice proposition.
CEO: What do you think?
Design: It…
Design: I…
Design: I never thought I would say that, but it not only looks incredible, it also looks like a Spander at heart.
Design: It’s simple, pure, yet striking, like the 86 SP… It’s completely alien, yet so Spander. I’m confused…
Design: I don’t get it, how? I mean, it far from perfect for sure, but I cannot refuse this one.
CEO: Well I don’t really get it but I guess it’s good!
Shareholder: Guess we have our next SP!
Design: All these concepts reaks originality, we might be able to get some inspiration from them.
Engineer: …
Engineer: Can we maybe start to eventually think about the way we would have to go to make that into a production car?
Engineer: I have a few issues with it I would like to address…
TOP 3
1. @ThatCarMadGamer
2. @yurimacs
3. @george_m997
Congratulation to @ThatCarMadGamer for its fantastic design! And thanks all of you for prototypes, I never thought I’d see so many interesting takes on how to make a Spander!
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CSC34
GROUND BOATS
(like land yatchs but not quite)
Frasier Ebernhard is the owner of an American luxury car company he started in his name. Since the beginning, the company has produced a line called the Ambassador which set the company’s standards for “refined luxury”: luxury encased in a slightly more conservatively styled exterior than most other lux brands. For example, the 1953 version had a severe lack of fins.
WHAT FRASIER WANTS
- A 63* model year car
- 2.5-3.0m ish wheelbase
- 40+ comfort
- Hard price limit 45K
- sub 10sec 0-60
- 4-6 seats
- 35+ engine smoothness
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Real Life Inspiration
With a bit less finage
With a bit smaller lights
And if you want to use the 55 saloon body for this i recommend using this to start: Model_268_-Finless_Saloon.car (33.8 KB)
SUBMISSIONS OPEN September 4th, 15:00 (GMT)
The submission period ends on September 11th, 15:00.
Submit with the following naming scheme:
- Engine name: CSC34 - [forum username]
- Engine variant: [engine name]
- Car name: CSC34 - [forum username]
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Car trim: Ebernhard Ambassador
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I guess we’re gonna ignore the fact that the '55 body is a 3.3m, and it’s impossible to get over 40 comfort with a solid axle.
Anyway,
Ebernhard Ambassador by Zephorus
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we are going to ignore that fact, yes lol 
i believe we are finished now