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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Smart ForVision

Smart has done it again. Following the widely acclaimed Smart ForSpeed concept shown at Geneva, the Smart ForVision concept takes the bar even higher. This time the idea was to celebrate the fact that Smarts are traditionally fabricated from plastics. The respectable part was that Smart chose to celebrate this rather than hide this, and they did this by tessellating the door in a pattern that is only possible with plastic. Another plastic-specific design feature was the door handle, which would be impossible to create in sheet metal. A great design powered on by a great thought. Bravo !