SPEED HERO Blog — Commodore

Welcome to my first post of the Speed Hero Design Process, SHDP for short. The idea here to create content, but also document my experience. By documenting what I've learned, you, the reader get to understand and follow my progress. Let's learn together! Today is my first day of doing some research. I'd like to share, roughly some of the abstract or interesting vehicles I've come across on my travels of understanding cars, car culture, and ultimately car design. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="730"] Daewoo Brougham[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Daewoo Brougham[/caption] Today I...

Robbie, You'll meet him in a video one day, was chatting with me about the trip. I'm about to stay in his house. Keeping up the research of Brock and the A9X on Bathurst, Robbie found a video. Interesting one to be honest. Brock's car, versus a new stock Commodore SS, the A9X and a modern V8 Super car. Released at timed intervals, the cars were supposed to finish at the same time, to show the changes in speed. When they didn't, I was intrigued. What was different? What caused the Torana to run a nearly identical lap time to the...