The Crowd Sourcing Competition [Round 49]

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CSC 26: A Blast from the Past

The Brief

The year is 2001, next year will be the 90th anniversary of Merciel, one of the largest companies in France. To celebrate such a momentous moment, Merciel designers plan to make a “retromodern” concept of one of their most popular cars, the Modèle '49. However, due to financial issues in the company, many experienced staff members had to laid off and as such Merciel have been forced to outsource the design for this concept car.

Your task is to create a retromodern design based on the Modèle '49.


Note: This round is purely about the design and as such, engineering doesn't matter. However if you give me something with dumb engineering I will have a laugh.

Requirements

  • The model year must be 2002

  • The body must be a hatchback

  • The design must resemble the Modèle '49 in some way

Suggestions

  • Don’t go all the way and make it look like you copy and pasted the a 40s design onto a 2002 body. I want a retromodern design. Keyword being modern.

  • Also even though the main design must resemble the Modèle '49, feel free to take inspiration from other Merciel designs.

  • Feel free to look through the Merciel forum thread for inspiration: Merciel S.A Archives

  • As for other cars I’ve made that haven’t been posted on the main Merciel thread, Ill post them below.

Styling

If you want a closer look at the Modèle '49 the download link is below.
Merciel Modele 1949 - Modele 49.car (70.4 KB)

Below are some cars that aren’t posted on the main Merciel thread. The Merciel 110 and 200 are more examples of popular old Merciels and the 2800 is an example of late 90s and early 2000s Merciel styling and may also be the only example I have…

1966 Merciel 110/112


1956 Merciel 200


1998 Merciel 2800


EDIT: The Merciel logo uses this fixture but upside down and a bit thinner .

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Naming convention ofc is the standard.

Model: CSC 26 - [forum username]
Trim: Free
Engine: Free
Variant: Free

Entries will be accepted on the 31st January and the deadline will be 7th February unless further stated.

If you have any questions/alterations you want to make, please list them down below. Good luck and have fun.

EDIT: Before anyone asks, no resubmitting. Thank you.

EDIT 2: For further clarification, the deadline is 23:59 GMT on February 7th

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