The Detroit Auto Show this year had a running theme titled ‘Sharing the Road - Big Safety/Small Vehicles.’ This theme required the presented concepts to mould their designs in order to incorporate greater degrees of safety for smaller vehicles.
Tilmann Schlootz’s presented his Audi Snook and walked away with the Michelin Challenge Design Ward 2008. This is the second time that the German graduate of the Academy of Art and Design Offenbach, won an award for Audi Snook Concept. He had triumphed at 2007 Frankfurt Auto show with the same design.
Audi Snook is a great design and expectedly has walked away with the honors in Detroit. The vehicle is hailed for adopting the principle of agility from aerospace technology. It runs on a mono-sphere wheel and looks completely futuristic with a two-seater body. A single wheel is not supposed to hamper the vehicle’s movement and the driver using drive-by-wire-technology can navigate the Audi in any direction desired. It has the ability to turn on a point and thus provides for greater driving mobility and security.
As a matter of fact, Schooltz created the concept in conjunction with Wolfgang Mueller-Pietralla, head of Volkswagen Group Research and Future Affairs for his diploma thesis titled ‘Future Research and Product Design.’ Expect more from this young auto designer soon. Hopefully the latest award would only feed his appetite for more.
Source: Cardesignnews
