Toyota Concept Car

Toyota Concept Car






Toyota Australia called on EGR's expertise to manufacture the body panels used in their futuristic concept Sportivo Coupe that was on display earlier this year at the International Melbourne Motor Show.

EGR knew that it was going to work on a very special project when Nick Hogios, Toyota Australia's Senior Designer on the Sportivo Concept Car, together with fellow designer, Robert Young, detailed some of the project requirements to EGR's Acrylics Product Development Department.

The brief was to design and manufacture large translucent colored panels and trims for the Sportivo Coupe Concept vehicle.

The concept car represented Toyota's intention to attract a younger market to its vehicles. This became a landmark statement because the overall design intent represented a pitch to future customers who are not even in the market for a new vehicle right at this point of time.

From the outset, EGR knew that the entire project was on a very short developmental time-line.

In fact, Toyota's Management made the decision to proceed in August last year, and the job ahead for Nick and his team was monumental given that they had to start by involving school age children from Melbourne and Sydney in the design conceptualization stage.

Moreover, the finished vehicle had to function like a real car that, in the end, acquitted itself very well at Calder Park Raceway in Victoria when the design project was completed.

EGR's task was to produce specially colored panels and trims made from acrylic using CAD data supplied by Toyota Australia.

The panels themselves were very large pieces that needed to be produced in sheet form and then molded into tight shapes and tolerances. From there, they were specially hand finished on a router to the final dimensions.

All in all, EGR proved well up to the challenge and developed some 13 molds in a period of 8 weeks.
The colored panels on the Sportivo concept doors, tail lights, windshield and front bumper were all produced by the Acrylics Division.

The results of the intensive work certainly paid off as the exterior translucent panels and their distinctive blue colors proved very popular and made an eye-catching statement. They also attracted very favorable responses from younger audiences who saw it during the show.

There is no doubt that some of the pioneering work done by Apple Computer and Nokia in designing highly popular and trendy personal computers and mobile phones had helped with the vehicles physical exterior design direction.
The car represents a statement from Toyota's design department and incorporates some fascinating technology and concepts.

One of these concepts is called advanced telematics systems which represents a possible future technology for Australian drivers and could quite possibly have world-wide implications.

The system involves a smart licences concept that uses an embedded chip to not only contain the drivers licence details but has the ability to allow highly tailored driving preferences to be memorized by the car.

These, in turn, can be used by the driver to adapt the car quickly to his or her personal preferences such as seating positioning, entertainment system preferences, instrument color scheme and so forth.

In the future, and with the appropriate computing and communication systems in place, the advanced telematics system could be used to link to navigation systems, security systems and even driving authorizations - much like logging onto a computer system that has multiple personal profiles that can be used by an appropriately authorised person.

So there is far more than meets the eye with Toyota's Sportivo Coupe Concept car.

Apart from the embedded technology concepts being put on display in this car at the show, the vehicle is an eye-catching concept car with fully operational gull wing doors right through to stunning translucent colored panels that combine to give this vehicle a special back to the future touch.

Congratulations to Toyota Australia and EGR's Acrylics Product Development Department for contributing to this special project.

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looks pretty cool...

looks like a civic concept lol..

The Scion tC look is there on that concept car.

is that an intercooler i see on the front grille

looks alright excpt for the mis-matched door color

This concept car has been released for a while. Im sure you can dig up some more pics on the internet. It has a weird, yet hi-tech speedometer.

probly not, probly just a raidator..

i think it looks okay for a concept.