On the Volvo stand at the CV Show they had a very talented young British automotive designer who I got chatting to---and I promptly lost his card (I've asked that Towering Titan of truck tittle-tattle aka Volvo PR geezer, Nigel Hanwell to send it to me). However, since I posted this entry Volvo's John Comer has come to the rescue and tells me: "Miles Waterhouse was the designer who did these drawings, and his colleague who did the presentation of the 2020 Volvo truck and animation is James Dex. Both are former students of the automotive world renowned Coventry Transport Design course and work in Volvo Truck design centre in Gothenburg." And talented blokes there are too---meanwhile here's the artic of the future from Miles!
Very slippery I should think...though I'm not too sure about the sleeper pod in the back
This one looks more to me like the day cab version...Now click through here for more....
Still looks like a Volvo with the famous diginal 'bar' on the grille.
A touch more 'radical'? You certainly get a nice big flat windscreen with this one!
Comments (4)
It's Miles Waterhouse Brian... ask me another... anything!
Posted by Tom Cunningham | April 19, 2008 3:18 PM
Posted on April 19, 2008 15:18
Fantastic concept studies.
Commercial vehicles (and Construction equipment-my own area of expertise) gain from the application of good Industrial Design as do Automotive products. Whilst these vehicles may not be "emotional purchases", the customer, who has grown up in a high tech, design savy world, will still formulate a sub-concious opinion of the product within a second of seeing it - this is how important good design is to product development.
Bravo to Volvo for their continued push for brave and innovative thinking.
Posted by Gary Major | June 19, 2008 11:53 AM
Posted on June 19, 2008 11:53
VRH,EKSTRA.
Posted by marko | June 27, 2008 8:11 PM
Posted on June 27, 2008 20:11
It`s just to bad that with all the technology available the truck companies still fail to create a product that is driver friendly and a work horse. Instead they waist time on useless gadgets and unnesasary add-on`s that is off no interest to the owner or the driver(you know, the people who buy this stuff!)Volvo really need to do some research or get someone to do a survey for them, cause they are falling way short at the moment when it comes to competitive haulage.
Posted by Marinus van Dyck | June 29, 2008 11:58 AM
Posted on June 29, 2008 11:58