so get rid of that lower lip damn thingy outlined in the picture?

 

yeah!

 

Zoom will be heading Mazda's new Oregon Design Studio

 

LOL. Somwhere on some other forum, someone will post this pic and ask if anyone has seen this spy shot of the new facelift.

 

brillo- i could use thejob

and LOL if some one finds that on another site you have got to tell me

 

that was pretty tough. i think the dams aren't proportional though

 

hmm, forgot the mesh

 

based off the cx7 and the 3 & 6, i think the facelift could go in this direction...

i put current and my speculation together for easier comparison.

 

interesting, but i hope not

 

definetly liking CJ's now and liking the direction that glyphons is headed also. just a little refinement

 

haha, that's how i feel about the mazda emblem holder on your versions

v2.

 

added mesh and fogs in two different styles.
personally, i don't like the second one.

 

i don't see a difference between the two...

 

hehe, never said i like the kabura emblem holders either. don't think its too bad though.

something about yours though. is that shadowed part supposed to be like the CX-7's grill thingy? see picture

 

cjkim, i cant stop drooling over your skills... any tricks of the trade you would like to share? its just so real....!!!

 

yup...i tried it with the double opening, like on the ms6 picture on the first page, and it was waaaay too busy, so stuck with the single opening.

 

 

oooooooooooooooooooooooh. yeah, i don't really care for the non-lip version either.

 

i like that actually. just a couple criticisms
your grill doesn't look too much like a grill.. looks kind of like the hood isn't closed fully. and i also doubt there will be a grill there for one reason. if you look at the nose shapes of the mazda car's that do have a grill/double grill, the noses on them are relatively flatter and longer, whereas in the 8, the hood draws farther into the nose with a more gradual slope. hard to explain, see picture

 

i see what you're saying, but there isn't a reason why there couldn't be a scoop-grill there.

i redid the manip so that it looked like a design element rather than a funked up hood that doesn't close right.

 

still not perfect, but better. since i'm still at work, manips have to rather quick and somewhat dirty.

 

yep this is the direction i think they'll go. they've done the black bar on the other cars an mazdaspeed 8 kit to hide the crash bar, i think the emblem holder looks better for that . i kinda like the no lip for the center and then let the mesh for the oil coolers be recessed. but i like elements of all of these. thank you gentlemen

 

and don't forget you're take on it zoom!!


now the back!!

 

I think the side intakes should be a bit smaller and they won't have mesh. My reasoning? Well, if the side intakes do have mesh, they'd have to make two different versions; one without foglight holes and the other with. That would drive production costs up for such a minor thing, so I don't see them doing it. In that case, such a big side intake would not match with the center, so I see the size being smaller. Anyway, this is complete speculation, I have no idea how (if) the facelift will look like!

 

good point, but they COULD do something like they did with the msp 6. see picture, hard to see, but i brightened it up so you could see it.

still, this was just my image of what zoom requested sooooo