Except for the wheels and the grille/logo, this German Volkswagen is all French. I was sure I had posted it in this blog already, it's one of my favorite all-time chops, but a quick skim of the labels list revealed I hadn't. Now I have.
C H O P — VW makes some of my favorite cars, always has, but I think their styling is, well, staid. It's tasteful, and thankfully they've never gone off the edge like BMW and Mercedes have on occasion, but I think they could at least begin to explore new options. To that end, I wanted to create a Volkswagen with very little VW to begin with, so for this chop I used French cars as the base images. The lower part of the body is a heavily revised Peugeot RCZ sports car stretched into a 4 door sedan. The window/cabin section, or greenhouse as it's called, is from a Citroën C5 midsize sedan.
Even I was shocked when I added the VW bits, the wheels and the grille/logo and saw how well it hung together. The Peugeot's fender bulges are evocative of the New Beetle when paired with the VW logo, almost becoming German in nature. No, it's nothing VW would EVER actually do, and they haven't had such a glassy greenhouse since Giurgiaro designed the original Passat/Dasher in the '70s, but I really, really like the way this car came out. I'd say it's one of my favorite chops of all time.
The name? VW has recently begun to refer to its future cars as the "New Midsize Sedan" or the "New Compact Sedan"so I thought "New Small Hybrid" was just about right. This car would be a true competitor to the Prius, with its bespoke body.
Beautiful car -
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What year did you chop this ?
Check ou VW Passat at alternate address :)
Thanks! This is a pretty new chop. I think I finished it last December, well after the CC came out. I can't claim they stole this one, lol.
ReplyDeleteCASEY, DO ME A FAVOR AND EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT CHOP MEANS.
ReplyDeleteLOL, WHEN I THINK OF CHOP,I THINK OF TEENAGERS STEALING CARS AND CHOPPING THEM FOR PARTS. I THINK I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS BUT NOT SURE.
GRANNY
Hi Granny!
ReplyDelete"Chop" in the context I use it, is really a shorthand for Photoshop. I don't know why it's 'chop' and not 'shop' but that's what people call it online. What it means is that I take existing photos of real cars, and through my computer and the program Photoshop, I change the photograph into a car of my own design. Years ago, before computers, i would have been using an Airbrush. Through various techniques, I retouch the existing photograph into a completely new car that doesn't really exist. When I was a kid, I drew cars all of the time, with pencils, pens, magic markers, pastels you name it. I think of my computer and Photoshop as just a 'better pencil' these days. It enables me to get really authentic looking cars that look like photographs instead of hand-drawing them. I use the mouse and the software to create my fake cars instead of a pad and paper. There are a lot of people out there that do this, and it has become known online as chopping cars. In reality, chopping cars is stealing them and cutting them up, OR lowering the roof on a custom car. But online, it's using Photoshop to create fake cars out of real ones.
Hope I explained it OK! and read my "update" that I'm going to write in a minute for the '$1.19 car of the week" below. it's a good one!
THUMBS UP, IT'S WHAT I THOUGHT BUT WASN'T 100% SURE. YOU DID GODD. THANKS KIDDO.
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anything for you, TG!
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