Concept Cars?

ace23
By ace23

Out of curiousity when do they bring concept cars into the market? Is it 10 yrs or more?

By anonymous• 21 Jan 2009 20:34
anonymous

It Varies a lot, depending on the Concept. Usually a Concept Car is never built as shown initially. In the later years I can only think of the Pontiac Solstice being virtually unchanged(except for Exhaust and Door Locks) from it's concept debut in 2002 until it was introduced in late 2005. For That Car it took less than 4 years from Concept to production model- that is extremely fast bearing in mind that everything was developed from Scratch. THe Platform is now called KAPPA and consists of several sports cars from various manufacturers in the GM family.

Usually a Car Manufacturer only takes certain design elements from a Concept Car and adapts it into an existing Platform, which obviously takes a limited time, usually 16-18 months.

To your question, 10 years is a long time and a design would not last that long it would be outdate before coming into production, 5 years is probably average.

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