Talk:Concept car/Archives/2012

Notable Concept cars?

I think the (huge) Notable Concept cars table is a little arbitrary, very Americacentric, and totally redundant as there is a perfectly good category that lists Concept Cars. The table dominates the article. I'd like to delete it completely unless anyone has a better suggestion for making it useful and less obtrusive. Dino246 07:40, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to see a list of NOTABLE concept cars, but short of demanding some sort of proof of notability the general trend has been to eliminate lists in favour of categories. So, set phasers to maximum. Greglocock 07:56, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Well I've pruned the list. I've left anything that has even some claim to fame or notability, but evenn then, some are a bit of a stretch.Greglocock 02:04, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

It would probably be best to create a section about today's concept cars. Possibly how they were different from those of the past and maybe show a few images. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Savevp (talk • contribs) 20:56, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

That would be a terrible fanboy list. If the concept cars are notable, that is, discussed in reliable sources, then they should go in. Otherwise, not.Greg Locock (talk) 21:23, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

see the history page as of today for the sort of tripe you'll get. Greg Locock (talk) 19:35, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree 100%. The current list of historically notable concept cars is still largely arbitrary and very US-biased on its own. Any attempt to decide which of the 100s of new concepts each year are significant would be an open invitation to war between petrolhead forums. Dino246 (talk) 21:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Howdy! Same question here. Aren't the green models at events like the World Solar Challenge considered notable, or at least relevant? bkil (talk) 18:23, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

They aren't concept cars, they are prototypes.Dino246 (talk) 21:30, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Hy Wire

I think this may qualify, as it has been the focus of GM's high technology concept cars for 5 years now. Speaking personally I regard it a hilariously stupid piece of work. But that is not the point. Greg Locock (talk) 07:06, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

The Hy Wire is just the latest in a long line of green GM concepts that haven't actually gone anywhere going back to the Ultralite of the early 90s. If they ever actually produce anything based on this technology then the concept will retroactively become notable but until then describing it as such reeks of OR, POV and crystal-ball gazing. I'm still in favour of deleting this whole section. Personally I think that to be notable a concept car must have been the first at something or have directly influenced significant production vehicles. IMO, the Stratos Zero, Carabo and Boomerang influenced a generation of sports cars and are notable in my book, just as the Megagamma is for creating the minivan/MPV genre. The Ford Probe III that morphed into the Sierra essentially layed down the styling themes of every 80s/90s family car. I don't particularly like it but I think it's notable. However, as there's no accepted definition of what constitutes a "notable concept car" I don't see it's our place to decide what's notable and what isn't. Dino246 (talk) 09:13, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Move to Concept vehicle

I think this was a really stupid move. Working in the industry I have never heard the phrase show vehicle, rarely hear concept vehicle, and much more frequently read of show and concept cars. Would Mac like to explain why he thinks it is a good move? Greg Locock (talk) 06:27, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Photo of scale model of CNCd Audi

I'm sorry, but I just don't see that a photo of a CNC milled very small scale model of an Audi LeMans is relevant to the article on concept cars. If it were a prototype model produced by the design team then it might arguably serve a purpose to illustrate how concept cars are developed but it isn't, it looks to me like an example model produced by some company to show off what they can do with their CNC machine. It maybe belongs on articles about CNC but it serves no purpose here, it illustrates nothing about concept cars. If the Audi LeMans was considered to be a particularly significant concept car then we could put a perfectly good photograph of the real thing in the article. But it isn't particularly significant and a photograph of some company's trade-show giveaway doesn't belong here. Sorry. Dino246 (talk) 19:37, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Fine, but I think we should have some photo at the Design section, which is not the case now. --Jordiferrer (talk) 16:42, 20 October 2010 (UTC)