Skoda is a brand with a long tradition in motorsports and this has inspired Czech designer Pavel Hruby to draw a study of a modern Skoda world rally car. Hruby took inspiration from the Skoda Vision D Concept shown by the Czech brand at this year’s Geneva Motor Show.
The VW Group’s subsidiary was not involved in any way in this project, with the sketch having been commissioned by Czech Magazine AutoDesign&Styling. The Skoda Vision WRC project shows Hruby’s ideas of what a new rally model from the Czech automaker could look like. Based on the new design language launched by the Vision D concept, the rally car features the new corporate grille, underlined by a massive air intake in the lower part of the bumper.
Compared with the Vision D, the rally version loses the rear doors and gains a more athletic look, with sharp edges, nice proportions and a large rear wing. “Sharply cut features of the Geneva Vision D concept have a feeling of precision,” says Pavel Hruby. “In my concept of the factory special for WRC, I tried to express the new design language more aggressively.”
The project was featured in the latest issue of AutoDesign&Styling magazine in an article called “Go, Skoda, Go!” Unfortunately for the brand’s fans, a Skoda World Rally Car is highly improbable in the near future, as parent company Volkswagen is expected to announce its involvement in the WRC series in May. According to reports, VW will compete in the series starting from the 2012 season with a Polo-based rally car.
By Dan Mihalascu
Source: AutoDesign&Styling
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