{"id":2648,"date":"2017-01-29T02:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T02:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2017-01-29T02:20:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T02:20:47","slug":"holden-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/holden-hurricane\/","title":{"rendered":"Holden Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holden’s Hurricane\u00a0stirred the automotive scene with a 1969 debut that beat the season’s concepts – including the Mercedes C111<\/a> – to the floor. Holden, still a relatively young company had established its Research and Development sector a few years prior, and their Hurricane was to showcase the true extent of the sector’s vision. Lead designer\u00a0Don DaHarsh developed a full-scale model and was accompanied by a team of engineers who helped realise the famously low-slung, aerodynamic form. With a single-piece hydraulic roof canopy, the Hurricane fused kinetic sculpture with vehicular design, able to be opened in with a single manoeuvre – with seats raising electronically, simultaneously. Peter Robinson<\/a>, one of a handful of\u00a0press invitees to a preview of the car added\u00a0‘Its science-fiction-like technology included on-board navigation, a rear-mounted camera to account for no rear window, automatic air conditioning, digital instrumentation, oil-cooled front disc brakes, tilt steering column, adjustable pedals, and, most dramatically, no doors.’<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holden’s Hurricane\u00a0stirred the automotive scene with a 1969 debut that beat the season’s concepts – including the Mercedes C111 – to the floor. Holden, still a relatively young company had established its Research and Development sector a few years prior, and their Hurricane was to showcase the true extent of the sector’s vision. Lead designer\u00a0Don …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}