During the second edition of the Peugeot Design Competition, launched at the last Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris, Internet enthusiasts car design have been asked to revisit the heritage of the brand and draw their Peugeot 'retro' .
Of the 2 800 projects submitted to the site www.peugeot-concours-design.com, Peugeot 4002, the project of Stefan Schulze, German designer of 32 years, received the most votes.
During the last
Geneva Motor Show, Mr Saint-Geours, managing director of Peugeot, she was awarded the trophy 'The Claw' with a check for € 5 000, stating that his project would be achieved at scale 1 and submitted to the 2003 edition of the Frankfurt show.
The second edition of the Peugeot Design Competition, launched at the last Mondial de l'Automobile, has registered, with 2 800 proposals from 90 countries, more projects
that when the first edition two years ago (about 2 000 from 80 countries).
The contest has expanded its audience with more than 80% of 2 800 proposals from foreign countries. After France (493), Turkey (164), Mexico (138), the United States
(127), Italy (112), Spain (107), Colombia and Russia (105), Argentina (98) and the United Kingdom (90) appear in the top 10 country projects . Regarding geographical areas, the representation is as follows: Western Europe (40%), Eastern Europe (20%), South America (17%), Eurasia (9%), North America (6%), Asia (5%), Africa (1%), Australia and New Zealand (1%).
At the launch of the first edition of the Peugeot Design Competition, in October 2000, the Internet has quickly emerged as the ideal medium. Indeed, the promise to achieve a scale of 1 required the winning designer of innovative and media-oriented world.
Thanks to the Internet, the public attending for the first time, choosing a concept car presented in a major exhibition. Since October 2002, date for starting the second contest, the site dedicated to the event: www.peugeot-concours-design.com, brought together a community of designers, with over 12 000 members, representing nearly 100 countries, enabling them to follow the phases of selection, implementation, and the presentation of the concept car at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
After more than a century of automobile production and more than 40 million units produced, Peugeot wanted to give voice to an audience of designers, enthusiasts motor on a theme, previously unknown in the brand: 'Draw a Peugeot style retro. 2 800 projects with a high level of quality, this second edition has met with more people and more international.
The projects should be assessed on the basis of their consistency with the theme for the second contest. Firstly, the project should be clearly associated with Peugeot, then he must recall a historic model of the mark and, finally, be innovative, creative as original.
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