Altair's Focus STREET Concept Vehicle Receives Ford Design Award
Altair Racing Technologies, a high-performance vehicle development team at Altair, presented Ford with an unsolicited "dollar car" program proposal and vehicle concept earlier in the year to demonstrate the street aftermarket opportunities for the Ford Focus. The finished concept vehicle - Ford Focus STREET - has a very distinctive, aftermarket body appearance package with a transparent panoramic roof and tailgate design made from Bayer MaterialScience's Makrolon(R) polycarbonate material. Interior modifications include two-tone leather seats, steering wheel and gear shift lever. Additionally, PPG provided Paint and Solextra(R) Performance Glass.
Ford Europe unveils Focus 2006 RS WRC Concept - Aftermarket ...
For those that don't know, the Ford Focus has been a mainstay on the rally circuit since it's debut. That means the all-new European Ford Focus would be enlisted for service on the WRC circuit as soon as it was ready. This concept shows that indeed folks better be prepared for the RS. Working with M-Sport, Ford Team RS came up with this aggressive looking rally concept.
Odd Shapes, Cool Cars - 1/10/2005 - Design News - CA493816
For the Ford Focus concept parts project, the solution was Makrolon® glazing from Bayer. Injection-molded for the Focus prototype, Makrolon has been commercially used on the Porsche Carrera special edition backlite and the Mercedes C-Class transparent body panel. According to previous Bayer studies, polycarbonate glazing can decrease weight by 30-50 percent compared with glass, thus answering the automotive industry's growing quest for a fuel-efficient solution. During the eight-week design and prototyping of the Ford Focus concept parts, the Altair-Bayer team managed to reduce the weight of the panoramic roof from 30 lbs if using glass to 14 lbs when using polycarbonate glazing. Though not shown on the Ford Focus prototype, Loren says, when properly designed, polycarbonate glazing also offers the potential for function integration and parts consolidation, resulting in manufacturing cost savings for automakers.
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