Mazda Ryuga concept.When Laurens van den Acker Laurens van den Acker is an automobile designer from the Netherlands. van den Acker joined Ford Motor Company in 1998, eventually becoming chief designer on the Ford Escape before replacing Moray Callum as global head of design for Mazda in May 2006. took over design duties at Mazda, he asked his team to think about the ways Mazda's "Zoom-Zoom" brand message could be translated through design. The Ryuga, which follows in the footsteps of the Nagare Nagare may refer to: People named Nagare
Open furnace for heating metal ore and metal for working and forming, or a workshop containing forge hearths and related equipment. From earliest times, smiths (see smithing) heated iron in forges and formed it by hammering on an anvil. leadership in dynamic performance and striking design to give our products the soul of a sports car," claims van den Acker. And yet the Ryuga's side surfacing is said to be inspired by the decidedly un-sporty Japanese dry gardens, while the headlamps resemble "the flow of morning dew dropping from bamboo bamboo, plant of the family Gramineae (grass family), chiefly of warm or tropical regions, where it is sometimes an extremely important component of the vegetation. It is most abundant in the monsoon area of E Asia. leaves." About the only parts of this concept that will transfer into production are the front and rear fascias--and that's not all bad.--KMK [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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