Side-pod unidentified car

[eve]

Hi,

while browsing this week's motor news, we came across this orange car:
http://www.media.allerinternet...25094&frame=0&nobg=1 (http://www.media.allerinternett.no/php/obj.phpi?d=x3&o=4164619&w=740&h=555&ee=1321925094&frame=0&nobg=1)

from LA Motor show.

Anyone know whose car it is? The orange one in the back with the nice sidepods

[eve]

Hi,

while browsing this week's motor news, we came across this orange car:
http://www.media.allerinternet...25094&frame=0&nobg=1 (http://www.media.allerinternett.no/php/obj.phpi?d=x3&o=4164619&w=740&h=555&ee=1321925094&frame=0&nobg=1)

from LA Motor show.

Anyone know whose car it is? The orange one in the back with the nice sidepods

[Canuck Racing]

UC Irvine.

There are a few more pics (with the dreaded foam on the sharp leading edges) under the Competitions > California 2011 thread.

As I understood it's what happens when you let an art school design your bodywork, and they had perhaps the best entrance to competition, arriving on a comically small flat bed trailer being towed by a PT Cruiser.

[AxelRipper]

The orange on in the back? That was one of the University of Californa's. I think UC Irvine maybe? Very nice looking car, I remember it in Cali last year. Insanely quiet however.

EDIT: yep, looks like I was right, but Canuck beat me to the punch. Yes, this is what it looks like when you give art students free reign over top of a design. Does look better than trying to modify an artistic design with engineering (See: Pontiac Aztec)

[eve]

Thank you! I'll check out the other gallery. Its fun to see other solutions than the standard ones.

[Mbirt]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by eve:
Hi,

while browsing this week's motor news, we came across this orange car:
http://www.media.allerinternet...25094&frame=0&nobg=1 (http://www.media.allerinternett.no/php/obj.phpi?d=x3&o=4164619&w=740&h=555&ee=1321925094&frame=0&nobg=1)

from LA Motor show.

Anyone know whose car it is? The orange one in the back with the nice sidepods </div></BLOCKQUOTE>That would be from the University of California-Irvine's 2011 car. It competed at FSAE West 2011. They had art school students design the one-piece body.


Edit: D'oh! This is what happens when you have work come up and fail to refresh before replying. I remember how awesome the PT Cruiser pulling the lawnmower-sized flatbed was now... Thanks Canuck!

[Kirk Feldkamp]

They refer to it internally as "the brown car." I think it was students from Art Institute of California - Orange County that did the body for UC Irvine. Talking to the Art Institute advisor, it sounded like they did it old-school by scraping a full size clay (I'm not joking here) and then splashed molds off the clay. The final product was very well done!

[Spetsnazos]

What car is that in the front, its pretty sexy.

[Jerry Lee]

Cal State Northridge
Behind it the black car is San Diego State, although I do not remember my team having those wheels when I graduated in 08.



Hey, don't knock on the PT cruiser. We had this really old white trailer pulled by a small truck. My school did have a nice trailer, but they wouldn't let us use it because only the hybrid SUV project that ended years ago could use it.