Citroen GT on the Streets of London
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Polyphony Digital’s Citroen GT concept car has been busier than ever – first appearing at the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring, hitting up the 24 Hours of Le Mans a few weeks ago, and now stopping traffic as it drives the London street circuit from GT5 Prologue. Of course, this made for some pretty impressive photo ops, which you can see below. The car is slowly making its way to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, taking place July 3-5. Full press release after the jump…
CAPITAL THRILLS: GTbyCITROEN concept turns GAMING fantasy into London reality
Citroën’s stunning concept supercar, the GTbyCITROËN, took to the streets of central London on Tuesday (23/06) to recreate part of the ‘street circuit’ featured in Gran Turismo 5 – the PlayStation3 driving game which the GTbyCITROËN was designed for.
Taking in some of the Capital’s most famous landmarks, the virtual-turned-reality supercar swapped pixels for Piccadilly as it swept through the world famous circus, toured Regent Street, rounded Trafalgar Square and cruised down the Mall past Buckingham Palace.
The result of a unique partnership between Citroën and Polyphony, designers of the Gran Turismo game series, the GTbyCITROËN concept measures nearly five metres long (4.96m) and just over a metre high
(1.09m) with an impressive supercar design sporting wide air intakes, rear air-diffuser, horizontal LED headlamps, gull wing doors and diamond-effect 21inch aluminium wheels. Inside the cabin offers a refined racing experience with copper, steel and black leather finishes combined with hi-tech racing controls.
The GTbyCITROËN will be making its UK show debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (3-5 July) and will climb the famous 1.16-mile Goodwood Hill as part of the Sunday Times Supercar Run.
The photos here are of a real car that previously only existed as a virtual image in a video game and was made into a real street car with the help of 3D printing technology.
Here is something that brings together a couple of contemporary technologies in one amazing design. Take a virtual car that only existed in a video game, add the capability to "print" 3D objects from a computer, and you get the GTbyCitroen - fantasy fulfilled.
A company called i.materialize, that does 3D printing, was asked by Citroën to help build a working, full-size Citroën G, an imaginary car that had previously only existed in the virtual world of the Gran Turismo 5 racing game. This resulted in a real car that is actually driven on the streets and presented in car shows.
The car is fully functional with butterfly opening doors and passed top speed tests at about 200km/h on a racetrack. The exterior design emphasizes speed with a very aggressive racing look (left), while the interior was designed to create an impression that the cabin is virtually on fire (right). For the GT concept, most of the interior was 3D printed.
In his book "Fab", Neil Gershenfeld talked about the coming time when we would "print" 3-dimensional objects from our laptops similar to the way we currently print 2D images. Printers would use solid material rather than ink to "print" real objects. Like any technology this starts out big, expensive and hard to get but very quickly becomes smaller, cheaper and available at Best Buy for home use.
Today we print out our own 2D graphic designs, tomorrow we will print out our own 3D objects, and soon we will be designing and producing our own 4D spaces and places as well as 5D experiences.
Here is something that brings together a couple of contemporary technologies in one amazing design. Take a virtual car that only existed in a video game, add the capability to "print" 3D objects from a computer, and you get the GTbyCitroen - fantasy fulfilled.
A company called i.materialize, that does 3D printing, was asked by Citroën to help build a working, full-size Citroën G, an imaginary car that had previously only existed in the virtual world of the Gran Turismo 5 racing game. This resulted in a real car that is actually driven on the streets and presented in car shows.
The car is fully functional with butterfly opening doors and passed top speed tests at about 200km/h on a racetrack. The exterior design emphasizes speed with a very aggressive racing look (left), while the interior was designed to create an impression that the cabin is virtually on fire (right). For the GT concept, most of the interior was 3D printed.
In his book "Fab", Neil Gershenfeld talked about the coming time when we would "print" 3-dimensional objects from our laptops similar to the way we currently print 2D images. Printers would use solid material rather than ink to "print" real objects. Like any technology this starts out big, expensive and hard to get but very quickly becomes smaller, cheaper and available at Best Buy for home use.
Today we print out our own 2D graphic designs, tomorrow we will print out our own 3D objects, and soon we will be designing and producing our own 4D spaces and places as well as 5D experiences.
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