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João Montenegro

Draco

Sports car design for Adamastor

Year
2012–2015
Field
Automotive
Role
Exterior design
With
Adamastor
Links
Adamastor
Draco: Sports car design for Adamastor

Designed in the shape of the natural driving experience, Draco is a sports car that personifies the daredevil spirit of the 1960s races and mixes it with craftsmanship and details.

Render of the Draco in blue, three-quarter front view
White-line sketch of the Draco, three-quarter front view

The shape was the culmination of a year-long design process in collaboration with the innovative Adamastor engineering team.

The form of Draco's design attempts to create an automobile from a single surface; this way, it is sculpted out into a natural aerodynamic body of glass and carbon fiber.

Line drawing of the Draco in side elevation, with dimensions

Draco is the rebirth of the driving experience as art. With a growing mass market of vehicles that take their drivers from point A to B, the adventure and passion for racing become the racetrack for Draco.

Render of the Draco from behind
Render of the Draco head-on
Render of the Draco, three-quarter front, lit from the side
Render of the Draco in profile
Curvature analysis of the front-light mount, shaded in rainbow bands

Curvature analysis of the front-light mount...

Curvature analysis of the air intake, shaded in rainbow bands

... and of the anterior air intake.

Photograph of the Draco prototype head-on with its headlights on
Photograph of the Draco in the desert, three-quarter rear view
Photograph of the Draco on a road at dusk, in profile

After this first proposition, which got track tested, the company Adamastor developed the product further and eventually achieved new iterations of the design.