A triumphant piece of product design, Makkina’s TR25 is a vivid vision of the ultimate minimalist all-electric sports car
Car design is an incestuous, interwoven and highly self-absorbed business, where designers find their influences and self-expression funnelled through the immovable diktats of brand cohesion. The Triumph TR25 concept car shown here stands gloriously apart from corporate intransigence. Designed by London-based automotive consultancy Makkina to celebrate its 25th anniversary, the TR25 is a spectacular ‘what-if’, a vision of an alternative future that might – just might – come to pass.
The head and taillights appear to slice through the meticulous sculptured surfaces of the body, terminating the form with twin red blades at the rear and giving the car a friendly, expressive frontage, just like the original Triumphs. The TR25 is an exercise in reduction, boiling away the excess and using very pure surfaces to express key forms, like the front air intake and bumper and the flared rear wheel arches.
‘It’s a very believable concept,’ Ani admits, although he stresses that it’s purely a design exercise. As the only project Makkina has publicly attached its name to in 25 years, he’s adamant that the TR25’s primary purpose is to ‘get validation from industry and enthusiasts’.
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