I posted something on Friday asking the reader’s of this blog about their opinion of whether I should show a sneak peek of either of my two main SEMA cars I’ve been designing. After reading the comments I’ve reached a conclusion.

The conclusion is this:

These cars have a lot of detail and depth to them that will be overlooked because of the impact of the complete car. I definitely want to keep the final image a surprise for both cars, but at the same time I can show a little of the design I’ve been doing which perhaps will be a little overlooked due to the overall complexity of the car’s design. For example, last year I did so much custom body work and little details to the S2000 that it was almost two cars in one…one complete car before the MS-R stickers went on it, and a totally different complete car after the graphics went on. Those that have read those old blog entries leading up to last SEMA know what I’m talking about. This Toyo car will be the same way. I’m confident it will look incredible without the graphics, and I’ve been working extra hard to come up with innovative ways to design the paint, to remix the look of parts that already exist, to do some one-off things nobody has yet to do. Once the graphics go on, perhaps they will rob some of the attention away from the detailed work we’ve been doing, but it will be robbed with good reason. I felt the same way last year…it was bittersweet to add the MS-R graphics to the S2000 because it looked so damn good and clean without it, but the graphics transformed the car to another level and I don’t regret it for a second.

Anyway, the parts are not on the car yet, and I wanted to just show you some heavily cropped and reduced pictures of a few details. Perhaps you can start to understand why I’ve been so excited and busy with this stuff lately. I really love my career and the chance to do cars like this!

I’ve said it time and time again. I think leaving carbon parts all carbon often is just a result of being lazy or uninspired. I truly believe that beauty is in the details. I’m not looking for gaudy displays of carbon, I’m looking for clean integration, unique accent points, little details, ideas and concepts that are one-off touches. Call it bespoke if you will, I named my business after this principal. It is my goal with both cars to show beauty in the details. I hope that the cars at first glance impress, but the deeper you look the more interesting it gets.

These are some closeups of a few of my ideas and execution. It wont make perfect sense until of course the car is seen…but everything you’re seeing here is a little different than how anyone has done it before…and thats just want I expect of myself on projects like this.