Rant: Chevy's Vision Of The Future, By The Future, Is Pants

According to Chevrolet, the following concept car was crafted using the minds of a plethora of young whiz kids from the US of A. Our question is who, what and how drunk were these selected yank youths?

The concept that was designed by the future, for the future, is called the Code 130R which unfortunately houses many fails. The biggest failure is, well, just look at that thing! The newly appointed designers must have just sat in the studio bored either BBM-ing, iMessaging or playing Angry Birds for a while until one of them came up with an interesting remix, "Take Bumblebee, make him the same size as a 1M coupe, paint him red and give him gold rims."

In principal, it sounds genius; a Chevrolet Camaro which you can park without the resultant crashing into your mate's beloved Corsa, but unfortunately the end concept result just hasn't struck gold in our not-so-humble opinion. Ford the record, gold wheels also don't work unless it's an old school Impreza.

The other big fail is the apparent propulsion mechanism. Usually a muscle car such as the Chevrolet Camaro has a big petrol V8. A baby coupe like the 1-Series usually has a diesel engine with quite a bit of puff and torque, but not this proposed car. No. This has a 1.4L turbo petrol with 148bhp. Say what? That's an engine for a hot hatch like a Fabia vRS not a medium sized American lump.

This next concept looks better, but it's still not quite right. It's called the Tru 140 S and was designed by a British dude called Nicolas David at Chevy's Hollywood crib. Regardless, it still has the same 1.4L turbo as the Code concept, again too weak if you ask me. This one looks like the result of an Astra GTC and a Renault Wind after a heavy night out. Its purpose is to be an "affordable exotic", the idea being it's as great looking as a Ferrari but for Skoda Octavia money. Affordable? Kind of at £18,000. Exotic? No. Ray Wert of Jalopnik got it spot on, "It's an egg with three doors."

There are a couple of morals to this short story. If you're going to let us young folk design you a car, make sure they're sufficiently young to still have that untainted sparkle in their eye, capable of dreaming up Lamborghini-esque cockpits and Aston Martin-esque sheer sex. Secondly, there are just four vital things we want from a coupe; a design inspired by lust or violence, rear-wheel drive, a manual gearbox and a good amount of power. If Chevrolet need design inspiration, they should go and look at the Acura stand a few feet away where everyone is drooling over the NSX.

There you are, some valuable car design tips from a young car nut. Peace out.

Image credit - Autoblog