While not a household name yet, Ugur Sahin, a Turkish car designer based in the Netherlands, will ring a bell for many of our regular readers who will remember him from past projects such as the 2007 Ferrari Dino, 2010 Aston Martin Gauntlet and more recently, the 2011 Soleil Anadi.
The latter is of particular interest as it's the production version of Sahin's 2007 Chevrolet Corvette Z03 design study.
The coach built Corvette was presented in the flesh at last year's 2011 Top Marques car show in Monaco, with Soleil planning to produce a total of 300 cars priced at US$299,995 a piece.
Now, Sahin has provided Carscoop with details about his newest project for a two-door, front-engined Alfa Romeo sports car named the C12 GTS Concept.
Through his company Ugur Sahin Design (USD), the young designer says he is actively looking for investors and parties who want to be involved in the project and build a production version of the sports coupe.
If you scroll down, you will find Sahin's description of the Alfa Romeo C12 GTS Concept as well as photos and a video of the design study.
From Ugur Sahin:
"The main goal of this design is to reinterpret Alfa Romeo’s historical lines, surfaces and styling cues with fresh perspective and state of mind in order to create an appealing design and combining the familiar design language of Alfa Romeo combined with sharper lines and surfaces without losing the organic attractiveness of the car.
One of the main features of the design is the way its stance is shaped. As a whole it gives you the impression of “forward-movement” even while standing still. The iconic Alfa Romeo Grille hosts the center of the organic lines which flow towards the back and around the car with minimum distraction and maximum visual impact. The way the front is designed consists of two different shape compositions to make the face of the car sporty and aggressive, yet so appealing.
The side silhouette creates a balanced front-to-back ratio that grabs your attention with proper proportional balance and the perfectly straight line that divides the upper and the lower parts of the car seamlessly wraps around the back making the car look as a whole.”
Currently we are actively looking for investors and parties who want to be involved in the project in order to build an exclusive car which is destined to give its owner the ultimate feeling of powerful design and driving experience."
11 Comments:
Finally, a super car without me-too look.
I'm glad he's thrilled with his own work, however IMO
1) he ought to get a real publicist to write his releases and pitches
2) the world if just fine without this car in it.
this looks like a car thats already around, but with an alfa grill....its to overstyled to be an alfa...i cant think of the name of it
I don't think Alfa would want their name associated with this.
All those "designers" have no clue about what Alfa Romeo means.
How can you design an Alfa without the scudetto-shaped rear window or without the proper Alfa wheels and with all those ugly complicated likes that have nothing to do with the Alfa shape?
I think the drive trans and engine of the the BRZ or FRS should fit this nicely.
I'm not sure who'll invest, it's kind of an unattractive car. The shape is all right but the details are really forced. The side scoop is especially overdone.
That is a great looking car.
Mercedes, not Alfa. Sorry.
Fantastic looking car! I hope he finds some investors. Nice to see a design for such an emotional brand thats not afraid of departing a bit from its many well used historic Alfa cues.
Not sure about the back and the side is a bit angular but its very, very nice to look at in the whole
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