Italdesign Giugiaro has used one of VW’s modular new MQB platforms to underping their latest creationg: a minivan that’s both green and fun. It’s called the Clipper and if you’re familiar with the world of boating, you’ll know the term refers to a kind of sailing boat.
The focus behind its creation was “tomorrow’s world and cities,” but there’s no getting away from the fact it looks a bit like a Golf from the front.
In Giorgetto Giugiaro’s own words, they “wanted to focus our styling and engineering research on a project for a deliberately not futuristic car. The only concession to exotic lies in the door opening mechanism, with ‘butterfly’ doors at the front and ‘gull-wing’ at the back.
In the spirit of the craft it was named after, the Clipper makes silent progress thanks to a pair of 150 hp electric motors (one on each axle); it can make a fair bit of it too, reaching a range of 540 km or 337 miles on a single full charge.
A lot of attention went into conceiving the model’s interior, which “represents the true revolutionary element of this concept car” and can seat up to six occupants, all of which have an unobstructed way in and out courtesy of the unique door design – part Lamborghini, part Tesla Model X.
It’s honestly not one of their most spectacular works, but it is worth a look, in the gallery below.
By Andrei Nedelea
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