"Someone decided the Lamborghini Countach needed to mate with a dune buggy and maybe a stealth fighter. Looking at Alex Casabo's buggy concept, that's not hyperbole or some lazy automotive journalism comparison. This thing genuinely looks like it crawled out of the wedge-era supercar playbook, did some thinking about what parts of "street legal" actually mattered, and concluded the answer was "none of them.""
"Most supercars maintain this pretense that yes, technically, you could drive this to the grocery store. Casabo's design skips that entire conversation. The suspension geometry isn't hidden behind sexy bodywork, it's showcased like mechanical jewelry. Those bronze-finish wheels and exposed A-arms aren't apologizing for being visible. This is a track toy that knows exactly what it is, and there's something refreshing about a design that doesn't hedge its bets."
"The design language pulls directly from that late '70s and early '80s moment when Marcello Gandini was drawing supercars with a protractor and an apparent vendetta against curved lines. Every surface on this buggy looks like it was folded from sheet metal by someone who studied origami and decided subtlety was optional. The wedge profile, the angular body panels, the way the whole thing seems to be made of intersecting planes rather than flowing shapes."
A wedge-inspired dune buggy combines late 1970s–early 1980s angular supercar styling with origami-like, intersecting body panels and a low, aggressive profile. The design intentionally exposes suspension geometry, turning A-arms, coilovers, and visible hardware into deliberate visual elements alongside bronze-finish wheels. Street-legal pretenses are abandoned in favor of mechanical transparency and track-focused purpose, prioritizing raw function over aerodynamic smoothing or conventional bodywork. The aesthetic channels Gandini-era wedges while echoing the mechanical honesty of an Ariel Atom or Group B rally car, producing a radical, uncompromising track toy that emphasizes form emerging from function.
Read at Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
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