01-25-2015, 11:23 AM | #1 |
Examples of when camo car turned out to be fake?
I keep seeing this recurring theory that the camo cars we've seen shots/videos of may not be the actual car.
Can anyone point to any example of when this has happened in the past??? Where the actual car had different shape, size or lines? Note: I'm talking about the swirly camo only, not padded cars, and not differences in vents/lights/grills/badges.
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01-25-2015, 11:27 AM | #2 |
The new Hyundai Genesis coupe had body panels put on it from the old version as camo. Source: http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1...oupe-spy-shots
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The C6 Prototypes had fake front and rear ends on them to make the car look longer. One of the big jumps for the C6 was shortening the front and rear overhangs significantly.
So yes, it's been done on Prototypes. All Mules are pretty much either the previous gen car or a donor car. The new large Cadillac for example had spy shots recently using Holden Caprice/Chevy PPV bodies. That is very common because at that point the styling is no where near complete.
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01-25-2015, 04:44 PM | #7 |
any links to the before/after?
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No, I worked on the car so that's how I know. Per Dave Hill, Chief Engineer, they had special panels made for the front and rear.
As I've said before, at some point you need the aerodynamics and airflow to be correct for testing. So anything they are doing, if anything at all, with the jazz camo would be simply disguising feature lines etc.. It's very doubtful this is any kind of fake car. Those are the cars. But until the reveal we won't know how much trickery they've tried. I'll also say that when I worked for a Japanese OEM, we only did wind noise testing at night in the dark. Hard to do wind noise evaluations with Camo on the vehicle. So it was done only at night when the camo could be removed.
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01-25-2015, 08:05 PM | #10 |
Maybe I'm not being clear. I'm looking for a comparable situation to what we have right now with the 6th gen. Show me a pic of a camo car and then a pic of the final car that was released and point out where the fake panels were. Again, not padding on the car like the vette.
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01-25-2015, 09:02 PM | #11 |
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Let me be clear, because you can't find a history of it being done before.............doesn't mean it can't be done. I know how I would do it and it would be EASY.
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01-25-2015, 09:23 PM | #12 |
The question is not is it possible. The question is, based on past history, what is the likelihood it's going to happen here. And clearly, there is no precedent to cite, so the likelihood the 6th gen is going to be the first to have fake panels hiding the "real car" is extremely small.
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