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 Mazda's Nagare design language and the future of Mazda design | « » 8:49 PM 8/26/2008 | |
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 Mazda's Nagare (or "flow") design language as presented on Mazda's recent concept vehicles is supposed to provide a glimpse of Mazda's future design direction, especially in regards to the next RX sports car. The name was taken from the first concept bearing the design language, the Mazda Nagare. While Nagare is very polarizing, it is undeniably fresh among automotive design. It can be argued that Nagare is the next significant progression in automotive design after flame-surfacing. Or is Nagare flame surfacing taken to the extreme? What do you think of the design language? Will it translate well on production car designs, which inherently must be more conservative to minimize polarizing opinion and manufacturing costs? While I like the Nagare concept cars, I have doubts that Mazda will be able to build Nagare production cars with the visual impact that makes the Nagare concepts so cool in the first place. An overview of Mazda's Nagare concepts: The newest one, unveiled today is the Mazda Kazamai: http://forums.fourtitude.com/zerothread?id=3998900 
Nagare is very effective on the Mazda Furai: http://forums.fourtitude.com/zerothread?id=3607286 
Mazda Ryuga: 
Mazda Nagare: 
Mazda Taiki: http://forums.fourtitude.com/zerothread?id=3471989 
Mazda Hakaze: http://forums.fourtitude.com/zerothread?id=3110566 
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| Re: Mazda's Nagare design language and the future of Mazda design (Wimbledon) » | « » 8:52 PM 8/26/2008 | |
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<----- lost in translation
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| Re: Mazda's Nagare design language and the future of Mazda design (Wimbledon) » | « » 8:52 PM 8/26/2008 | |
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It's something unique and interesting on the first couple of concepts they released, IMO. It's losing its impact with several concepts sharing the language.
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Yuck.
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better than the new honda/acura design schema
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definitely impressive
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| Re: Mazda's Nagare design language and the future of Mazda design (Wimbledon) » | « » 10:43 PM 8/26/2008 | |
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It looks like the next Miata may be a Nagare derivative:http://forums.fourtitude.com/zerothread?id=4000132
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| Re: (Meroving1an) » | « » 10:53 PM 8/26/2008 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Meroving1an » | | better than the new honda/acura design schema |
Those buck tooth grills aren't too far off though.
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| Re: (WakeHead) » | « » 11:37 PM 8/26/2008 | |
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I like it
but the surfaces kinda...look...flamed...
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| Re: (vdubbug) » | « » 11:58 AM 8/27/2008 | |
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While not all of them I like, at least it's different. While most other automakers designs are starting to look the same or at least steal cues from each other. I will take a Furai tho. 
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| Re: (wookee) » | « » 12:10 PM 8/27/2008 | |
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| Re: (wookee) » | « » 12:26 PM 8/27/2008 | |
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I think the next RX-(x) will be awesome looking!
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| Re: (PassSedanGLX) » | « » 12:26 PM 8/27/2008 | |
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| Re: (B3sat16v) » | « » 10:20 AM 9/4/2008 | |
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Update: new Mazda Kiyora Concept:
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| Re: Mazda's Nagare design language and the future of Mazda design (Wimbledon) » | « » 11:13 AM 9/4/2008 | |
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To me, it is interesting, and even sometimes VERY pretty (those fine sweeping lines along the sides of the Ryuga are gorgeous, IMO), but I get the nagging feeling that this direction of design has little in the way of "legs". It seems like it's centered far too much on surface detailing, rather than in the development of fundamental shapes and proportions. This is where the industry is stuck in a rut, today, IMO.
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| Re: Mazda's Nagare design language and the future of Mazda design (vwlarry) » | « » 11:22 AM 9/4/2008 | |
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They all look awful.
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| Re: Mazda's Nagare design language and the future of Mazda design (Elbows) » | « » 11:50 AM 9/4/2008 | |
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I've let a lot of these try to grow on me, but these are all just plain ugly. (IMO)
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| Re: Mazda's Nagare design language and the future of Mazda design (BrownSoda) » | « » 12:34 PM 9/4/2008 | |
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looks like crap, I bet their "language" doesn't even have a dictionary.
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| Re: (HwAoRrDk) » | « » 6:32 PM 9/4/2008 | |
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I think the concepts are incredibly cool but I'm getting bored not seeing ANY design cues from them not make it to production except for the stupid  grille the new MX-5 has.
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| Re: (ToucheTurtle) » | « » 6:39 PM 9/4/2008 | |
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