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Automotive Design Interior and Exterior

Why is it so Important in Todays Wold?

The art of designing a car or a truck is nothing short of a miracle. The amount of perfection that people demand in today’s market is almost unfair but somehow all of the engineers and designers can keep up. All the engineers and designers are the people with the amazing minds that create these amazing pieces of art. (Fujimoto, 3-24)

With all this work I hope to become the head of automotive design for any car company.

(GM Announces, par.1)

There is a distinct difference between designers and engineers. The designers are the people that draw the fancy little pictures of what everyone wants a car to be; big wheels, big engines, and radical lines that could never be made on mass scale for consumer consumption (with today’s technology). The engineers are the people that take that design and make it doable. In short the designers are Van Gogh and engineers are Leonardo De Vinci. Engineers make beautiful things that work like so many of Leonardo De Vinci’s inventions. (Bob Boniface, par.7)

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There are many aspects of designing a vehicle and designers do play a major part in some of them, mainly in the ascetic aspects of it. Aerodynamics is a highly refined science that vies for position with the other key vehicle design considerations, styling and ergonomics. (Fujimoto, 223-230)

Today there are definite basic principals that every designer and engineer follow to create an aerodynamically efficient vehicle. (Car Design Online, Aerodynamics, par.1-2)

With an endless list of materials to choose from all with different properties this is one of the biggest factors in designing an interior. (Car Design Online, Ergonomics, par. 2-3)

For Engineers there job in creating this vehicle are all the parts that one can’t see but are crucial for the car to work, things such as the engine and transmission. The engine of the car is an infinitely complex piece of engineering. Today’s cars, normally, use one of three engines, piston with gas, piston with diesel, or the rotary engine. Gas engines use spark plugs while diesel engines use pure pressure to cause spontaneous combustion. (Fujimoto, 85-88)

Another unseen component that plays a major part in a vehicles success is the chaise and suspension. For the engineers there is a lot of school time involved. With designers it takes a bit less schooling but a lot more natural talent. (Bob Bonifice, par. 1-5)

After studying architecture and industrial design at Georgia Institute of Technology he went to the school that his father took him to and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial design. In April 2001 he joined General Motors as Chief Designer for Chevrolet. Then in February 2004 was named Executive director of GM Europe Design. (Bryan Nesbit, par. 1-10)

One thing that a lot of designers do today well before production is make clay models. There are several stages to producing a clay model. (Car Design Online, Modeling, par. 1-3)

With today’s technology most of the designing can be done on computers with CAD. CAD stands for ‘Computer Aided Design.’ This technology has even brought clay modeling forward. (Car Design Online, Modeling, par. 4)

The Future of design most defiantly lies in computers. The way that this paper was worded might have let on that there are only a few people that work on a vehicle at a time but in reality there are full teams of engineers and designers that all have to work one vehicle. (Car Body Design, Manufacturing Processes, par. 1-3)

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One of the biggest ones is the rise in energy costs. The Japanese cars more often then not are more efficient on gas then the American cars. The Japanese cars would last a good ten years if you kept the general maintenance up but American cars were falling apart left and right. (Webster, Larry, par. 2, 5)

Because now, even though the quality of these cars has stepped up they still carry around the label that their cars are low quality, “Perception trails reality.” (Webster, Larry, par. 5) (Fitzgibbons, Patrick, par. 35)