{"id":20734,"date":"2017-06-15T15:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=20734"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:34:10","slug":"cars-of-tomorrow-fiat-chrysler-honors-student-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/cars-of-tomorrow-fiat-chrysler-honors-student-designs","title":{"rendered":"Cars of tomorrow: Fiat Chrysler honors student designs"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a peek at what Chryslers and Dodges might look like 30 years from now, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles designers went to the high school students who might one day be drawing them.<\/p>\n

Paige Webb, a student from Rochester Hills\u2019 Stoney Creek High School, is among the three winners of FCA\u2019s 2017 Drive for Design Contest announced Thursday. Webb finished third behind Richard Chen of Delmar, Delaware, and first-place winner Davis Kunselman from Macon, Georgia.<\/p>\n

All three entries share long, aerodynamic shapes with small greenhouses and huge wheels typical of design concept sketches. The designs feature huge air intakes for cooling which hint at a future in which gas engines will still be prominent. The first two prize-winners are sleek, mid-engine designs, while Webb\u2019s gorgeous third-place entry explores a Dodge coupe concept with a long front hood suggesting FCA\u2019s performance brand may be making Son-of-Hellcat three decades from now.<\/p>\n

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