New Prius? (need help with translation)

So, here's a japanese mag scan showing the possible 2008 Prius, alongside what looks like an hybrid Fit

Can anyone here translate the text? I summon yakumo!:lol:

 

may you could tell us, in what information you exactly interessted, since translating all the two pages needs some overtime, i guess.

 

Also the image is now missing.

Yakumo

 

Fixed, now is a link (in the original post)

Dunno what to translate, I guess I need to know japanese to see what part is the important one, dont you think?

 

that's one ugly ass car.

 

you're right so far, but the work for it will be tremendous, i guess.

 

Bugger that. The text is too small to see half the kanji well enough to read it. It is an ugly beast as well What do you want to know about the car? It may be a lot easier to translate the Toyota home page.

yakumo

 

I dont think thats in the home page since is part spy, part rumors...

What I want to know is the specs like engine, HP if the batteries are LiIon.

If thats too hard no prob, I'll try to get the specs somewhere else, or wait to a western mag to translate them.

A guy tried something in another forum, but he said he didnt know a lot of japanese so the translation wasnt 100% accurate...

 

looks almost identical to the current (and equally ugly) prius!

 

I don't like that Fit concept, although I think it's just the mag's mock-up rather than a real Honda concept.

I like the current GD3 Fit a ton, hopefully picking one up in the next year or so.

 

Check out consumer reports. They ought to have an article on hybrids, or Car and Driver. Regardless of how well they save on gas (which is in speculation and reports flying around that most people get well below the advertised mileage, especially in city-driving conditions) their batteries are expensive to fix ($5grand and up) if anything were to happen to it or the electrical components.

 

As a car designer I am disgusted by the Prius. (one or two)

That said, the shell of hybrid vehicles has to meet certain drag and resistance requirments in order to achieve the optimum consumption v. power (assisted by speed at high wheel rotations). If one was to do an aerodynamic study on land vehicles, the results would be pretty ugly, trust me (this also depends on the desired manoeuvrability of the vehicle, giving it too much aerodynamic for the Z vector of movement might cause issues in turning at higher speeds, depending always on the width of the vechile as well.)

There are two stages when a designer deals with tight engineering shell requirments.

First, engineers give an optimum shape (imagine a cardboard box in a given shape)

and then stylists have only got the freedom to work on details on top of that shell (like detailed textures on a polygonic box, speaking in 3d/gaming terms)

In should be noted that in exotic car design, stylists have the first and final word to morph the whole of the body, including the "meat and curves", and engineers are the ones to have to comply with the restraints that the design may present.

A famous example is the world's first supercar, Lamborghini Miura, which had the petrol tank placed in the front of the car, and when you were low on gas, the front would be lighter than it should, and at high speeds this would create a light "lift" from the resistance that built-up front-to-bottom, making it dangerous potentialy in curves etc while turning.

Also keep in mind that design constraints are also rooter in budget consideration. On consumer cars, never include a more expensive design than the one required for the car's aerodynamics, because this will unjustifiably raise the price. (unless you 're alfa romeo and people buy your cars because of looks and not mechanics they break down so badly )

 

Car designer? I thought you said you were a programmer and in law school...

 

Fight Fight Fight Fight :lol:

 

Well, if you go to my profile thing here on assembler, it does say Jack of all trades, doesn't it

I m in Law school (a qualified law degree after xmas woot), I know how to program (i m not brilliant at it though, there's much better coders out there than me. I only do asm and C/C++ and only if I *have to*, i don't particularly enjoy coding anything besides direct hardware control etc) i m proficient at industrial motor vehicle design and I like electronics and hardware so I do design and patent things. (modeling is just for making that extra buck here n there)

www.barc0de.org is my website where you can find all different fields that I will be engaging at once I m fully ready to remove the veil. Content is not uploaded on the site for copyright, patent and trademark considerations.

PS: I could upload a sample design if you wish, but I m not keen on posting things outside my contractual obligations. For now, I work on hire as a freelance designer. I could however e-mail you an image under the term not to show or distribute/publish the image or parts of it.

PS2: Can't a man be good at many things?Look at Leonardo Da Vinci and the range of activities he engaged and was good at I aim to be good at all the fields of my interest, and hopefully turn all of them into some form of business sooner or later

 

Thats cool. If you have any designs you worked on your spare time (not for your clients since those are protected under law) I would certainly like to take a look at them as well.

 

sure, madhatter256. PM me your email and i ll send you some scans of car drafts and a few comic single-strips

 

Amazing, barc0de is the uber geek! and I'm not joking...

Indeed, one can do many things at the same time, the problem is that this society has this commie (in my opinion) point of view that you should pick something and keep doing it until you die.

Honestly I've a couple of inventions myself but I'm having some troubles getting a patent since I've no experience in the field nor knew of anyone who did (and wanted to explain me).

 

Hey! You are the first one i meet on here that more or less has the same life-motif as me -

for myself, i love to program (ASM, C/C++, Delphi, C#, Java, JSP, ASP, CORBA....could be endless ), ROM Hacking / reverse engineering / fan translations, writing, but of them all i absolutely love to play bass guitar.

Its hard to keep everything in pace...but once you get the right rithm its not that much of a problem - the only problem i have is to harmonize my life's rithm with females :lol:

 

well there's so many things I like to do (the mentioned list is no where near conclusive!) , that I don't even think of all of them when it comes telling someone, it's just a way of life and thought I guess. With years of friction on each subject comes experience though. My CV is already 4 pages long

Females are often impressed by the wide area of interest a guy may have, besides looks - being a teaser and ignoring them also helps alot!:lol::lol: