SPEED HERO Blog — Holden

Welcome to my first post of the Speed Hero Design Process, SHDP for short. The idea here to create content, but also document my experience. By documenting what I've learned, you, the reader get to understand and follow my progress. Let's learn together! Today is my first day of doing some research. I'd like to share, roughly some of the abstract or interesting vehicles I've come across on my travels of understanding cars, car culture, and ultimately car design. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="730"] Daewoo Brougham[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Daewoo Brougham[/caption] Today I...

Station wagons? Too many seats. Sports cars? Too fast. Pickup trucks? Too tall. Cube vans? too useful. The pride of Australia comes the mix of them all: The Ute. Short for Utility Coupe. An attempt to make a vehicle socially acceptable for any occasion, the origins come from Ford Australia in the form of the V8 Utility.   Continued as a tradition in the land down under, the Ute has remained a staple of form and...