Rendered Speculation: Brazilian student dreams up new Renault Alpine
Click above for a high-res gallery of Marcello Felipe Maggioni's Renault New Alpine
Between the GT-R and the Z-car, Nissan has a rich history of fine sportscars. However, its French sister company is another story. Since discontinuing the Alpine in 1996, Renault's sporting spirit has had to subside on hot hatches and in its F1 program. Remarkable as they are, the French automaker has been working on bringing back the Alpine sportscar line, with a new model anticipated to debut sometime next year. That's a long way off, if you ask Brazilian design student Marcello Felipe Maggioni. So he's come up with a design of his own for the new Alpine.
The concept is characterized by a chopped-down greenhouse and low-slung headlamps, creating a wedge shape similar in style to the Lexus LF-A. Maggioni based the design around a mid-engine layout, with a homologated street-legal version of the high-revving 2.4-liter V8 from the Renault F1 car. Of course this is well beyond what Renault might actually produce to revive the Alpine nameplate, but if you're going to dream, why not dream big?
[Source: Serious Wheels]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Shawn 9:37AM (1/16/2009)
Some design concepts are smokin' hot, and really do their predecessors justice.....This is just ugly.
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Rob 10:31AM (1/16/2009)
Yeah, autoblog has been showing some pretty awful student work lately. I designed a car that looks better than yes in my Sophmore year, and I'm not even in transportation design. Yuck.
cFoo 11:52AM (1/16/2009)
Yupe. Brazilian designer should stick to designing hot models instead of car.
ken_aisin 1:25PM (1/16/2009)
He dreamed this up? I would call this a nightmare.
Amien 2:03PM (1/16/2009)
@cFoo
How do you design a model sir?
Jake B 3:44PM (1/16/2009)
Genetic modification of course.
Steve Neill 9:51AM (1/16/2009)
That thing is hideous.
It's so hideous that if Megan Fox was standing next to it, instead of her making it more beautiful, she would get uglier...
It's so hideous that your mom called and wants back her fat ass...
It's so hideous that it made me spit out my coffee..
Did I mention that it's hideous?
Don't even get me started on the Bangle Diss' I could pull out here...
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Ray 7:17PM (1/16/2009)
Steve said everything I was thinking
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Red 9:49AM (1/16/2009)
SMILE!!!!
Seriously, if it were orange, I would've thought it was a Jack-O-Lantern on wheels.
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Red 9:56AM (1/16/2009)
Also, when you consider how many Brazillian trannies look convincingly like women, you'd think car design would be cake walk to their design students.
Jerk Face 11:03AM (1/16/2009)
That Brazilian trannies comment was pretty random, Ha ha... : )
John R 9:49AM (1/16/2009)
Don't be a fool. Stay in school.
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Steve Neill 10:31AM (1/16/2009)
Nice work on having the Akio Asakura display pic! I bet not to many people notice that ;)
John R 10:36AM (1/16/2009)
Thanks! Most people get it confused with Fujiwara from Initial D.
Steve Neill 11:14AM (1/16/2009)
Drop me an email at steve@jdm-aero.com and I'll show you something (About Wangan, and some other stuff about cars too)
the vegas style guy 11:44AM (1/16/2009)
"Also, when you consider how many Brazillian trannies look convincingly like women, you'd think car design would be cake walk to their design students."
LOL!
AAAAHHHHHH!
HAHA!
OMG!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ugg.tryptophan 8:03PM (1/16/2009)
droppin' out of school, just ain't cool; droppin' out of school, just ain't cool; some think its cool, to drop out of school, but if you are then your a fool!
Henry Jekyll 9:52AM (1/16/2009)
"Since discontinuing the Alpine in 1996, Renault's sporting spirit has had to SUBSIDE on hot hatches and in its F1 program."
I think the word you're looking for there is SUBSIST. Subside means "to sink" or "to abate." Subsist means to survive on something meager.
"...SUBSIST on hot hatches and its F1 program."
Just a friendly proofreading heads up.
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zamafir 9:51AM (1/16/2009)
Compared to the original or even the concept renault showed off not to long ago, this looks like @$$. This design student might want to take his work a little more seriously.
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Yaroukh 10:02AM (1/16/2009)
LOL
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