A compact, urban vehicle,
with media convergence and infotainment, easy to park
and with zero emission. These were the requests of over
1.5 million people who have visited the website
www.fiatmio.cc, a portal where consumers help Fiat build
the Fiat Mio, an open innovation vehicle that inspires
the Fiat Concept Car III, or FCC III, the company’s new
concept car, to be presented on the International Car
Show in São Paulo, later this year.
The vehicle design was
developed by a dedicated team of 10 professionals who
interacted with the web users and had their final work
approved. The technologies to be presented were also
developed from chats on the project’s web portal.
The design line
selected was “Precision”, which on the outside is
characterized by a clean, minimalist and functional
design, where the large window area is a highlight. The
contrasts between the side, the window areas and the
rear, modular region, enable solidity. The dynamism of
the waistline helps to elongate visually the compact
FCCIII. On the front, one of the highlights is the sides
that advance on the bottom over the windshield “dome”,
which, along with the headlights, create an image of
strength. The wheels of the FCCIII are covered by large
hubs that offer better aerodynamics to the car. On the
rear, the lights, as with the headlights, are positioned
behind the windows, bringing simplicity to the car shape
without missing the beauty that the look of the lights
and headlights give to the car.
Internally, the design
offers a new experience of use, inspired on a lounge, an
architectonic ambience, not on the common, expected on a
passenger car. Interfaces, information and entertainment
gadgets will be ergonomically accessible in another
scale. Inspired on the proposal that, on a future not so
distant, cars will communicate with smart roads, the
seats were inspired on sofas, and the steering wheel
gets new shapes and functions, starting to work as a
command center, closer to what the future consumers are
used to on current videogames. The internal design
proposal was selected to offer the most space possible
comfortably to up to two users. The lines are very
precise, aiming at a minimalist balance among them. The
vehicle dimensions are already defined: 1560 mm width,
1530 mm height and 2500 mm length.
The construction of
the FCC III and the Fiat Mio can be followed on the
website www.fiatmio.cc/makingof. There are over 10,000
registered ideas from users from over 40 countries.
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