Fioravanti Tris concept
The TRIS concept car uses identical doors and head and tail lamps to simplify production
Fioravanti is back in Geneva with the TRIS Concept car, hoping that 9 years later the world has caught up with its re-thinking of automotive production.
The TRIS is a compact 3-door car meant to make manufacturing as streamlined, and low-cost, as possible. It uses recycled materials and a minimum number of parts in the construction of the vehicle. For example, it uses identical doors all around, including the hatch, and the front and tail lamps are the same too.
The car is 3,850 mm in length and has a wheelbase of 2,550 mm. No details on drivetrain are provided but one has to assume it will be very simple stuff indeed, in keeping with the whole concept of the TRIS.
Fioravanti is a Turin-based automaker founded in 1987 by Leonardo Fioravanti who spent almost a quarter century at Pininfarina creating models such as the Ferrari 308 GTB and the 288 GTO. The cutting-edge automaker's hopes are that the time has come for this concept and that it can take this car to where it is was born to be - in production.
Source: Fioravanti
Press Release (Click to expand)
TRIS
In an environment where the low cost car will have e growing important part in every market, also the most developed, Fioravanti proposes again the Tris project.
The project of an economical car is typical of Italian design, Fioravanti wants to define a low cost car with new parameters, not only looking to production places where the labour costs are lower, but designing a vehicle that is intrinsically economical.
The purpose of this vehicle, characterized by patented solutions, is to influence a future series of cars which components will be strongly reduced in their number. Such components will no longer identified with numbers and definitions in respect to their positions, but they will be designed only for their function.
This is a new way to think and to approach the basic vehicle. The doors will no longer be "right door n..." and "left door n.." or " rear door n...", the bumper will no longer be front bumper and rear bumper, the lighting will no longer be the front left headlight and rear left headlight. All these elements will be defined only as: OPENING FUNCTION, BUMPER FUNCTION, LIGHTING FUNCTION, because these components are exactly the same piece regardless of their position (left, right, front, rear).
Also the protective framework structure is influenced by this new approach; it is identical on both side of the vehicle, making the appearance of Tris typical. The two rear side-window are identical too.
This design fall on the whole production chain from development phase simplifying feasibility, engineering, prototyping, going on the production itself benefiting plant, tooling, assembly, logistics etc.
With the patented body solutions of Tris, we think is possible to reach a true low cost car, equipped with future eco-friendly engines or traditional ones, which dimensions don't need to be necessarily reduced.
DIMENSIONS:
- LENGTH mm. 3850
- WIDTH mm. 1720
- HEIGHT mm. 1530
- WHEELBASE mm. 2550
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March 5, 2009 6:14 PM
