Škoda had a great idea years ago: its trainees design and build a unique car, which on the one hand proves their skills, and on the other hand provides the company with significant and positive press coverage.
This idea also appealed to the brand’s Indian warehouse, and for the second time this year they gave their interns the task of building something that otherwise doesn’t exist.
Since Volkswagen and Škoda operate in a joint company in India (see our box), the interns worked from one Volkswagen, or more precisely from two.
Where Škoda Volkswagen and even Audi
The VW group set foot in India with the introduction of Škoda in 2001. Volkswagen and Audi followed the Czech relative in 2007, Lamborghini in 2012, and after Porsche entered the picture, the separate offices were combined under the name Škoda Auto Volkswagen India. Two plants produce 240,000 cars a year.
One is the Taigun crossover, the other is the Virtus sedan – both are based on the same floorboard as the Volkswagen T-Cross.
The entire design, market research, development, procurement, testing and all other stages of production were done by the students. The individual parts were created with a 3D printer.
The project certainly contributed greatly to their professional development, but we still feel that the opinion of at least one design professional should have been sought.
The stepped tail glued behind the SUV, from which the upper part was cut off in order to get an open platform, is not aesthetic, neither in itself nor in relation to the car as a whole, it is a real disproportionate monster, even though the pickup with a self-supporting body is a good idea, there would certainly be a demand for it in India as well. But we hope not in this form.
Source: www.vezess.hu
