Sunday, December 18, 2011

City Car Design

Jack has always managed to included ideas for small city cars throughout his books. This one is simply tagged as the "SL." There isn't much in the way of notes about this concept, so I'll just let the sketches to the talking:

Suicide doors and "bugeye" like headlight:

Note low floor and huge luggage area behind driver:



New Saab 96?

Many moons ago, Jack had sketched up some ideas for a modern version of the Saab 96. This was when the rumor mill was suggesting Saab would bring over a new small car, based on the Opel/Vauxhall Astra. So you'll see quite of Astra proportions in this design: