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Fiat pimps commercial truck? The Ducato “Truckster�

05/25/2006, 9:51 AM

By admin

Fiat today released images of Ducato “Trucksterâ€? — a heavily modified show-only vehicle that will be on display at the Madrid International Motor Show. The vehicle has 28 inch wheels, LED headlights, hydraulically-controlled gullwing doors, smoked glass windows and an enormous aerodynamic spoiler. Images after the jump…

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05/25, 10:18 AM

posted by:

Mike

Pretty fricking sweet if you ask me…

so, who is going to be the first greenie weenie wackjob to make a dumbass commment about this being the new soccor mom gas guzzler or to ask what the point of this is…

05/25, 10:28 AM

posted by:

Anonymous

there isn’t anything like it, and I love the 28″ DUBS! I’d drive that, maybe on weekends. Something like that everyday and the general public wouldn’t be able to handle it.

05/25, 10:28 AM

posted by:

TW

Neat rig to transport your race car to the track.

05/25, 10:57 AM

posted by:

oodles

Thats the stupidest looking car this year.

05/25, 1:30 PM

posted by:

Onur

Pointless but cool.

05/25, 1:34 PM

posted by:

Wayne

I think that big wing in the back would kind of preclude towing a regular semi trailer, no?

05/25, 5:56 PM

posted by:

1c3d0g

Too bad it’s a Fiat. :-/

05/25, 7:22 PM

posted by:

Thing2

a RICER-krispie treat… held together by a glue-like substance…

05/25, 8:34 PM

posted by:

Ryan

They should put a bed on it and make it the next style for the Super Duty.. if HD pickups took a crazy turn like this, at least for one model, they’d be a cool new introduction to the truck market. mini-peterbuilt? ill take one..

05/25, 10:39 PM

posted by:

manny

hmm… put bigger tires on it, cut off the wing, drop in a massive diesel engine, hook up a really sleek tractor trailer, and you have the semi truck of the future…

05/25, 11:08 PM

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05/26, 2:27 AM

posted by:

D-Zine-R

Sweet mother of god! That’s AWFUL! Not withstanding the overwrought detailing and 2F2F wing, the entire design is a pastiche of cliches. And what happened to Fiat’s designers? Those are considered professional-level sketches to be distributed to media as background material for the concept?
My apologies for ranting, but after slaving over sketches for presentations, I find it insulting that Fiat would release drivel like that as presentation material to accompany that concept.
On the other hand, if its all meant as a joke…

05/26, 11:36 AM

posted by:

wickedated

those are some napkin sketches, pretty ****ty and though I think cooky concepts are great, you got to question the allocation of resources here (read: waste of money).

how about designing a Fiat that doesnt suck or break down instead?

05/28, 10:49 PM

posted by:

D-Zine-R

#13, I agree with your comments re: Fiat’s that don’t suck.

Those sketches are marker renderings with pencil highlights. You don’t do those on napkins coz the napkins soak up the marker. That’s why I’m horrified – these sketches look like they were actually used as presentation level…

Although I will say that as long as it gets the point across, any sketch is a good sketch. I’d just like to see some killer sketches released as part of the presentation pack.

 
 
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