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"It shows that an autonomous vehicle doesn"t have to be a neutral design," says Gilles Vidal, design chief at Peugeot of his Paris Show concept, the e-Legend. By not neutral" he means that a car can still look like an actual car. Not some other-unrelated-object-on-wheels. The car in question is the lovely early-1970s Peugeot 504 coupe, a Pininfarina design from their golden era. "The e-Legend isn"t retro. You might recognise the silhouette, but the form language and details are modern," says Vidal. We tentatively put it to him that to spot the 504 within the e-Legend at all, you probably need to be of a certain age and degree of Francophilia. It"s hardly the best-known classic in the world. Refreshingly, he candidly agrees. "Yes, the 504 is not an icon, not like say the Mini. We only picked it because it happens to be 50 years old this year."
Date written: 3 Oct 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13558
"It shows that an autonomous vehicle doesn"t have to be a neutral design," says Gilles Vidal, design chief at Peugeot of his Paris Show concept, the e-Legend. By not neutral" he means that a car can still look like an actual car. Not some other-unrelated-object-on-wheels. The car in question is the lovely early-1970s Peugeot 504 coupe, a Pininfarina design from their golden era. "The e-Legend isn"t retro. You might recognise the silhouette, but the form language and details are modern," says Vidal. We tentatively put it to him that to spot the 504 within the e-Legend at all, you probably need to be of a certain age and degree of Francophilia. It"s hardly the best-known classic in the world. Refreshingly, he candidly agrees. "Yes, the 504 is not an icon, not like say the Mini. We only picked it because it happens to be 50 years old this year."
Date written: 3 Oct 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13558