Voitures Anciennes
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Hotrodder
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Voitures Anciennes
I can see it might be a matter of taste.........but there seems to be little choice today if they only fit black at the factory.
On my headstone it will say: Please switch off mobile phones. I'm trying to get some sleep.
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RobertArthur
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Another modern classic sports car, made by Honda, without black wheels. Last week I visited a nephew of mine whom I hadn’t seen for about five years. It turned out he owns a Honda S2000 roadster. The design philosophy behind it really appealed to me because it tied in perfectly with a cry you sometimes hear from today's drivers: ‘I want my switches back!’ Former Chief Engineer Shigeru Uehara revealed in an interview: "You will be surprised to know that we had very little input from the marketing people. This was a deliberate move, as we wanted to create something to please us as an engineering team, rather than try and please everyone. If you listen to everyone, included everything they ask for, all cars end up the same. We wanted a vehicle that was more focused - more Honda."
The whole design story with one interesting detail, actually not a detail at all: keep everything the driver needs within reach, keep it intuitive, he or she needs to focus on what’s happening on the road ahead, not on a large infotainment screen. To quote a US release note: "As with the S2000's exterior, the central design theme of the roadster's interior is performance. Honda engineers designed the interior to contribute to what they call an "interfusion" between the driver and the car. The conceptual model for the S2000 interior is a modern Formula 1 car's cockpit. Outward visibility, simplicity of controls, control feel, comfort -- both machines have these needs in common. Before production, the interior design was extensively tested, including wind-tunnel testing and over 20,000 miles of real-world driving in what Honda calls the maturing phase of the design. It is during this phase of development that details such as control placement, seating and driver visibility are finalized." The result in pictures and again more information, also in Honda's European Media Newsroom.
How to rip up the rulebook.
