Check this out

http://class.et.byu.edu/indes430/f5.htm

Enjoy.

 

That is really cool that they have a project like that. I wish our professors in Georgia Tech's ID program would give us a project like that. The only problem with those designs is that most don't really have a Camaro feel and that most don't seem like an F5 but an F9. Still cool stuff.

 

i didn't really like any of them they all seemed to be a liitle to futuristic

 

I would suggest that these future "designers" should pick-up an copy of Road & Track. If any of them had ever looked at one of R&T's cutaway line drawings, they'd have a better idea what a car needs to look like. Maybe someone should take their pencils away until they learn terms like "engineering setpoint."

If you ask me, automotive design has strayed too far away from automotive engineering. It reminds me of the early Audi TT models that flipped at autobahn speed. Apparently, the design had been approved without wind tunnel testing. The result was high drag, and even worse lift. Compare that with the original 1982 Audi 200 that had STARTED the modern trend towards aerodynamics.

 

There were very few of those Camaro "F5" concepts that I actually liked. Why is it that so many students of Car Design go toward that open-wheel look? Also, most of those designs have absolutely no Camaro feeling at all. I wonder if the people who created those designs would actually buy a car that looked the way the designed them?

What is interesting about this is the fact that BYU and GM actually had this design excercise at all. Why would you have car design students working on a 5th gen Camaro if there is no intention of ever producing the car again?

 

None of the designs there seemed to be based in any type of reality, respect for the Camaro brand, or any concept of what an automobile actually is. I get a feeling that these are people who would be just as happy designing furniture or microwave ovens. The 2 people who did have a grip on automotive reality & the Camaro brand, Ben Meissner & Christian Weaver, seem to be stuck in 2 different areas, one the 60s & one in the 80s. But at least they realized they were designing cars.

Maybe time in a automotive design studio rounds people out, but Ted (who I'm guessing isn't professional yet), and others who just do it as a hobby, put these people to shame.

 

They all looked the same to me! And like said above, none looked like a Camaro.

 

I'm not sure I really care what the concepts look like...I just think it's interesting that GM would approach them to do these concepts.

 

I think that both the concepts that Christian Weaver and Cameron Braithwaite did were the best rendering of what the Camaro would look like in the future.

 

Ummmmm....

A CAMARO WITH PORTHOLES?????

WTF????

 

Good idea, poor execution.

We need to slip Ted and 90Z28 SS into the BYU program

 

Did those guys know they were designing a real car?

I could come up with something that was at least realistic.

The Solstice turned out to look a lot like the last car I sketched. (which was 6 months earlier than the Solstice was shown). It's not great, but at least looks like a real car.

 

Robert Jesen has a bad freaking looking Camaro...
http://class.et.byu.edu/indes430/rob/pix_big/04_pic.jpg

that's the kind of look i would love the Camaro to have...

 

No doubt. This angle is my favorite of Robert's work...

http://class.et.byu.edu/indes430/rob/pix_big/06_pic.jpg

 

that shot screams camaro! I would love a 5th gen like that.

roof line...rear view mirror...tail lights...i would just complete the wing all around to make it look like the actual Z28 wing... that wilder wing can be use on the 5th gen Trans Am (hey i can dream...right? )