Every VANTAR starts on grey marker paper. The Datum started with a single horizontal stroke across the nose, drawn in one pass on a Tuesday afternoon.
That stroke became the light blade: 1 840 mm of continuous light, the full width of the car. Every other proportion was then measured from it, from the bonnet height to the line of the shoulder.
A note above the modelling table asked for any change that moved the line to be argued in writing, and in three years none was approved.
PL-S2 · 1:1 clay · Tape lines4 912 mm
02
Act 02 / Clay · 2023.06
Four thousand hours
A full-size clay model let the team walk around the line instead of looking at it. Black tape marked the shoulder and the blade, and modellers moved material a tenth of a millimetre at a time.
The surfaces around it were reworked hundreds of times while the tape line stayed where it was first laid.
Hours of modelling
4 212 h
Clay surface tolerance
±0.3 mm
PL-S3 · End of line4 912 mm1 398 mm
Act 03 / Production · 2025.09
Tolerances
On the production line the same edge has to hold across 118 robots, three shifts and two panel suppliers, which is where most of the engineering time went.
The first car off the line was checked at 1 204 points. The blade sat within two tenths of a millimetre of the drawing.
“The first line took an afternoon. Keeping it straight took three years.”
Ines VargaHead of Exterior Design, VANTAR (fictional)
About this site
A car that does not exist
This is a fictional car brand created as a design template. No vehicle exists and nothing is for sale.
Every image is AI-generated for this template and shown as a measured plate. The dimension lines are drawn over each photograph, around the car it shows.
All figures, from range and power to prices and dimensions, are invented for this template.
Type is JetBrains Mono and Manrope, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
