Photo: KDesign AG / Instagram
There was massive participation, again like in the good old days, as certain absentees like BMW or Jaguar Land Rover were supplanted by the numerous Chinese automakers that want to earn a living on the Old Continent. However, the Westerners didn’t relent, and Stellantis was chief among them, with over 60 premieres at the event, of which no less than nine were concept cars.
The company even organized a ‘The Night Before’ event where it revealed six of the most important prototypes: the stunning Alfa Romeo Cuorerosso, the funky 2 CV Concept by Citroen, the quirky Fiat Multiplay, the DS F3VER hot hatchback, the practical Opel STX station wagon, as well as the Peugeot RCZ Vision.
According to the rumor mill, the revived Fiat Multipla (now titled Multiplay) is an awkward minivan, SUV, and pickup truck mashup that takes automotive modularity to a hole new level, being three vehicles in one, though without also embracing a cool design. It does make an attempt to erase the atrocious reputation of the Multipla predecessor, but we’re not sure it is really working – even though the latest report says that it might end up reviving the nameplate!
Well, someone got way ahead of them all – a member of the imaginative guild of digital car content creators dwelling across the parallel universes of vehicular CGI. More precisely, Kleber Silva, a Brazil-based virtual artist known as “KDesign AG” on social media, has decided to have a CGI go at imagining the next batch of Fiat models based on the Multiplay project.
For example, his new unofficial, hypothetical design project titled as the Fiat Multiplay family simply separates the trio into three distinct vehicles. The first one is a futuristic interpretation of the third-generation Fiat Strada coupe utility from Latin America, also called Ram 700 in places like Mexico. It gets both four-door and two-door digital versions, by the way.
The second idea is a larger and more adventurous Fiat Toro compact unibody pickup truck, featuring a “completely renewed visual identity, combining futuristic lines, robustness” and design solutions to bring it closer to a production model than the Multiplay concept car.
Last but not least, there’s also the potential rebirth of one of the most controversial automobiles on the planet, with this virtual Fiat Multipla imagined by the pixel master as “a modern minivan, spacious and full of personality.” What do you think – yay or nay?
