Volkswagen Italdesign concepts

Boring!

My Lord. These so called renderings has NO personnaliy in them what so ever. Some one should be fired for this.

By Cinqster on 24 February, 2011, 11:20am

Hideous

By hotredman on 24 February, 2011, 10:45pm

its a honda!

looks like they copied the Honda Civic

By robertyu1 on 1 March, 2011, 3:12am

Definitely a Honda!

Looks like the VW design departments ran out of ideas!!!

By asmithdesign on 1 March, 2011, 7:02am

vw Corsa?

there is something very vauxhall / ford about the rear end on both concepts - rear windows particularly and also the way the side windows duck down

By JakeBtn on 1 March, 2011, 7:10am

Civic humped a Golf

robertyu1 is right! It looks like a the love child of a Honda Civic and VW's Golf

By MattDoc30 on 1 March, 2011, 8:08am

Smike

Must disagree with views posted so far.

Whilst I prefer Skodas publicised design direction, WVs new designs share Skodas stylised 'less is more' simplicity.
A welcome breath of fresh air after the increasingly over embellished current designs shown at their worst by Ford and Bangles BMW. The current design languages proliferation of pointles creases everwhere, gaping maws, and rising rears not only look dreadful, they also give lousy rear and rear threequarters visibility, whilst the ever steepening windscreen angles give A pillars which compromise visibility to the front.

When the new styles now being promoted become the norm, the styles of the last decade will be seen for what they are, orewrought, ugly and disfunctional.

Smike

By smike on 1 March, 2011, 11:40am

Free surely!

I hope nobody got paid for doing these designs. If they did, somebody got ripped off.

By Tooyoo on 1 March, 2011, 1:12pm

Eek!

Go! - Honda at the front - Fiat Grande Punto at the back!

The 5 door Go! is very Citroen-ish or Peugeot-ish from the side and it looks like the old Isuzu Piazza has made a comeback with the Tex.

3/10 at Design School - Must make more of an effort. Consider a change in career to "Municipal Amenities and Garden Design"

By ukmike2000 on 2 March, 2011, 1:26pm

Tex

They never did a 3 door version of the Austin Ambassador did they? .................. till now

By ukmike2000 on 2 March, 2011, 1:29pm

Its old hat VW!!

Oh dear VW!, Why feel the need to copy a design for a car (Honda Civic?!?!) which has been around for the past 5 years. What we are seeing is nothing new, very dissapointing from a manufacturer that always seemed to have new fresh ideas in designing cars. I agree with above comments that we have a Civic/punto hybrid going on here and both these cars are due for new designs in the next 12 months!......Very lazy from the boys in Wolfsburg!....

By sdmahonda on 4 March, 2011, 9:41am

Much better than reality

These are much better than the sheer dullness VW has been peddling for the last few years. The golf seems to be consuming ever more ditchwater with every new model. Whilst these are certainly very derivative designs, the certainly make more of an impression than the Magnolia Emulsion design's of VW. Though quit what all that fussy side window arrangement on the "Up" design is I don't know....

By JamesRiley on 12 April, 2011, 12:39am

Morris Ital...

Besides, Ital Design did afterall come up with the Morris Ital though they never admit it these days. At least with the Morris they did use the Marina as a starting point, and that was a Morris. This is just a robbed Fiat Punto (which incidentally was a Giugiaro design also)

By JamesRiley on 12 April, 2011, 12:42am