French automaker Citroen has just unveiled the latest details of a new brand concept car, the GQbyCitroen, designed for the compact sports car segment. The latest concept was developed in partnership with the fashion experts GQ magazine and has been designed to provide “the ultimate gentleman’s drive”. The Citroën GQ Concept was born through a unique partnership between the UK's market-leading quality men's monthly and a team of Citroën designers, collaborating to create the ultimate gentleman's drive. This is the first time a British magazine has collaborated with a car company in this way.
2010 Citroen Sports Car Concept GQbyCitroen
Responding to a quick by using GQ's editor, Dylan Jones, Citro?N's team, headed by using British designer - and the person accountable for the brand new Citro?N DS3 - Mark Lloyd, took a new take a look at the GT topic and included it with an average Citro?N layout method bringing Citro?N GQ Concept from design define to idea fact.
2010 Citroen Sports Car Concept GQbyCitroen
Citro?N GQ Concept combines classically sophisticated features and contemporary styling with a sculpted front end, rounded rear, sturdy body contours and glossy concave rear windscreen - a signature Citro?N design.
2010 Citroen Sports Car Concept GQbyCitroen
The vehicle's cabin is accessed through rear train doors and well-knownshows a spacious, snug and futuristic cabin. Completing the auto's bespoke styling, the interior detailing and upholstery choices were furnished by using Patrick Grant, the Creative Director of prestigious Savile Row tailors, E.Tautz, who commented: "Savile Row is all approximately balance and Tautz's easy military stimulated interior is the right counterpoint to the Gallic aptitude of the exterior."
2010 Citroen Sports Car Concept GQbyCitroen
Dylan Jones commented: "I desired some thing realistic, something cool, and something idiosyncratic - i.E. Something unexpected that did not just seem like a idea automobile. The GQ vehicle had to have the 'need' aspect, however it also had to look, experience and 'force' just like the type of vehicle no sane man ought to choose to disregard. We assume it looks very very unique."
2010 Citroen Sports Car Concept GQbyCitroen
Dynamic performance and environmental responsibility had been additionally key requirements for the undertaking. The Citro?N GQ Concept is powered by means of a plug-in Hybrid with a 1,598cc, 4-cylinder direct injection petrol engine providing a sporty zero-60mph time of simply four.5seconds, an electronically limited pinnacle velocity of 155mph and CO2 emissions of simply 80g/km.
2010 Citroen Sports Car Concept GQbyCitroen
"For me, the car that has usually represented the top of car excellence and refinement is the GT - the Grand Tourer. It isn't always the all-out sports activities automobile, instead it's miles something gentlemanly, it has overall performance and it's far for touring, not racing. We desired to create something that, like GQ, was aspirational, but additionally retained the conventional automobile ideals. We did not need a automobile for the mass marketplace. We desired a automobile for GQ.'"
2010 Citroen Sports Car Concept GQbyCitroen
The GQbyCitroen will make its world debut at a unique occasion in London this week.
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