The process of building the Audi e-Tron Spyder

Posted on 10.30.2010 06:00
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Audi | concept cars | electric cars | Audi E-tron | Cars | Car News When the Audi E-Tron Spyder Concept was first introduced at the 2010 Paris Motor Show, a lot of people ? us included ? we?re enamored by the car?s simplistic yet completely sexy design. Nevermind that it was a concept vehicle because whatever category it was, the car was oozing with awesomeness.But as you?ll hear people say all the time, the finished product isn?t as interesting as the process that it took to get there. Short of saying, it?s a lot more interesting to learn how a car like the E-Tron Spyder was born as opposed to drooling over the finished product.For their part, Audi released the story behind the conception and development of the concept vehicle, shedding light into a part of the entire process in building a car that the public isn?t all that aware of.In the case of the E-Tron Spyder Concept, Audi held a contest to determine who was going to get a chance to design the concept car. After two weeks of design involving 17 people split into four teams, Audi went with two designers and tasked them to build a full-scale model of their creations using brown industrial plasticine that was stretched and built over and around a steel frame with wood and rigid foam.Audi?s Board of Management eventually decided on the winning design and began building the car using a heavy dose of carbon fiber that required Audi employees to build each of the car?s body parts from a block of rigid foam before applying sheets of carbon fiber fabric. After that, it was a case of hardening up each part, cleaning it, and priming it for the build.There?s a whole lot more behind the entire development and build-up of the Audi E-Tron Spyder Concept that we feel would be best described by the people from Audi themselves. So hit the jump to see how the Audi E-Tron Spyder Concept turned from a competition design to a concept vehicle that wowed the auto industry at the 2010 Paris Motor Show.Press Release after the jump. The process of building the Audi e-Tron Spyder originally appeared on topspeed.com on Saturday, 30 October 2010 06:00 EST. read more

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