{"id":181687,"date":"2019-08-21T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=181687"},"modified":"2019-08-21T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T05:00:56","slug":"piech-mark-zero-the-coolest-sports-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/piech-mark-zero-the-coolest-sports-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi\u00ebch Mark Zero – the “coolest sports car”"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some time now, environmental friendliness has increasingly become the most important factor in cars. Electric, definitely, but also as compact as possible, economical in power consumption, and with the furthermost possible range. The Pi\u00ebch Mark Zero doesn’t meet these requirements at all. The luxury sports car boasts more than 600 hp and a top speed of 250 km\/h. The design also reminds us more of the extremely thirsty sports cars of the 1960s. So what were Anton Pi\u00ebch and his Pi\u00ebch Automotive<\/a> co-founder and creative director Rea Stark Rajcic thinking when they wanted to “build a car that will transport the fascination of a sports car into the electric age?”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s our aim to support the emotional experience that is part of driving with up-to-date technology,\u201d says Raijcic. After attending art school in St. Gallen and training as a typographer and lithographer at the Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung, he worked as a designer at Panasonic, Sony, and Canon in Japan, among others. \u201cIt\u2019s meant to help the driver but not distract them. And it\u2019s about a real sports car feeling: that of driving, not of being driven! Of course, the vehicle architecture is geared towards autonomous driving, but we\u2019ll keep that in mind for later models.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Pi\u00ebch Automotive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What would Steve McQueen drive today?<\/h3>\n

First and foremost, it was about “making the coolest sports car out there,” chief designer L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Varga emphasizes. “We took Steve McQueen as an example and asked ourselves what he might want to drive today. And we wanted to interpret the forms that were typical back in the 60s and 70s \u2013 clean, round surfaces \u2013 in a modern way.<\/p>\n

But the car should not only be “cool”, it should also be timeless. And timeless means simple. Without too many bells and whistles. “It can\u2019t be too brash. You can change the wallpaper on your phone or your outfits all the time to keep these fresh. But a car\u2019s design is eternal. That\u2019s why it was our job to come up with a design that isn\u2019t trendy and that you\u2019ll still like the look of many years from now,\u201d Varga explains. As examples, the Hungarian mentions the 250 Ferrari GTO, the Jaguar E-Type, the Shelby Daytona, and the Shelby Cobra, which originally came from the racing industry and then were turned into road cars.<\/p>\n

According to Varga, the design of the rear was also based on classic sports cars. \u201cAt first glance, it might look like we\u2019ve cut it off \u2013 it\u2019s a rather severe back end. Today, sports cars normally have those soft flowing rears. But here we were also looking at times gone by,\u201d he says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy to come up with a classic shape that looks unique in the eyes of people, I can tell you that. It was important for us that people don\u2019t look at it and say \u2018that looks like a Ferrari or an Alfa Romeo\u2019. We wanted them to know: \u2018Ah, that\u2019s a Pi\u00ebch!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Pi\u00ebch Automotive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Timeless beauty<\/h3>\n

The designers experimented a lot over the course of the process. Alongside other things, they also experimented with the pop-up headlights that were so popular in the 1980s. However, that was another idea that was abandoned. “The pop-up headlights didn\u2019t really sit well with the harmonic, round shape of the front end, which is why we went back to a conventional light design. The large round headlights in conjunction with the oval grille are a typical feature of sports cars from the 60s.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, the result was a dream car that everyone would go out and buy for themselves. \u201cWe have developed a sports car that we ourselves would really like to have,\u201d Anton Pi\u00ebch confirms. \u201cAnd we talked for a long time with many enthusiasts about what was missing on the market. We want to offer a modern classic that isn\u2019t subject to consumer fads. The driver of this sports car should enjoy every minute that they are able to spend in the car.”<\/p>\n

Varga would also definitely buy the Mark Zero. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful yet timeless sports car. Some cars are so overloaded with complexity and details that it\u2019s almost impossible to understand why the designer put this line here and made that corner there. Instead, we prefer to make a car that is simple and has clean lines. Toni and Rea gave me the job to create a \u2018timeless beauty\u2019. And yes, I am very happy with the result.\u201d<\/p>\n

Varga would not describe the design of the Pi\u00ebch Mark Zero as aggressive, but rather as \u201ceasy-going and carefree, like \u2018I know I\u2019m a cool and fast car. But I don\u2019t have to prove it each and every time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some time now, environmental friendliness has increasingly become the most important factor in cars. Electric, definitely, but also as compact as possible, economical in power consumption, and with the furthermost possible range. The Pi\u00ebch Mark Zero doesn’t meet these requirements at all. The luxury sports car boasts more than 600 hp and a top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1660,"featured_media":509536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26049],"tags":[38782,38784],"location":[24456],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-181687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobility","tag-elektromobility","tag-sports-cars","location-germany"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Petra Wiesmayer","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/petra-wiesmayer\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/o0D9nL_5c7d7cfcbe7e6.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Mobility<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Mobility<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["elektromobility<\/a>","sports cars<\/a>"],"unlinked":["elektromobility<\/span>","sports cars<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 21, 2019","modified":"Updated on August 21, 2019"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 21, 2019 7:00 am","modified":"Updated on August 21, 2019 7:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181687"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=181687"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=181687"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=181687"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=181687"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=181687"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=181687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}