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- Rendering of Mass Transit Interior Design Concept - Designers in the automotive industry and other fields created many drawings on their way to a finished product. Rough pencil sketches allowed experimentation with initial ideas, while refined color illustrations helped convince project leaders or company executives to support a proposal. Even after the adoption of computer-aided design in the 1980s, designers still made some drawings by hand on paper.

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Rendering of Mass Transit Interior Design Concept
Designers in the automotive industry and other fields created many drawings on their way to a finished product. Rough pencil sketches allowed experimentation with initial ideas, while refined color illustrations helped convince project leaders or company executives to support a proposal. Even after the adoption of computer-aided design in the 1980s, designers still made some drawings by hand on paper.
- Interior Concept for Indy Corvette Show Car, circa 1985 - Chevrolet wowed crowds at the 1986 Detroit Auto Show with its stunning Corvette Indy concept car. The non-operating display vehicle featured a mid-mounted V-8 engine, all-wheel drive and steering, a carbon fiber body, an on-board satellite navigation system, and screen-based instruments and controls. While the Corvette Indy never made it into production, several of its features eventually became commonplace.

- circa 1985
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Interior Concept for Indy Corvette Show Car, circa 1985
Chevrolet wowed crowds at the 1986 Detroit Auto Show with its stunning Corvette Indy concept car. The non-operating display vehicle featured a mid-mounted V-8 engine, all-wheel drive and steering, a carbon fiber body, an on-board satellite navigation system, and screen-based instruments and controls. While the Corvette Indy never made it into production, several of its features eventually became commonplace.