A leaked sketch from a business plan by a Chinese product design entrepreneur who aims to build reinforced vehicle roofs from carbon composite materials uses Top Gear as inspiration and hints at a new Morris Marina. The entrepreneur who's name translates as "Glorious Mountain Blossom" in English has taken a rethink to car design by "creating a futuristic approach to the structural components of the roof layout in order to prevent serious injuries in the event of the most major accidents". In an interview with Chinese press yesterday he talked of his inspiration from the piano dropping antics of BBC's Top Gear program"Seeing the act of dropping a Piano on that classic car inspired me to approach car manufacturers to use my carbon composite roof designs on future vehicles of a similar size and style. The family car market is very important to modern Chinese people, and a family car which is strong and reliable will be essential to the drivers of the future." We think he's lost the plot, as from our recollection, (well the internet's in fact) the Morris Marina was neither strong, reliable or popular.
From what we have understood, it looks like Glorious Mountain Blossom plans to start production with a partnership with a major Chinese car manufacturer to fit his ultra-strong roof on his Morris Marina styled "vehicle of tomorrow" in the next few year. He said "I hope China to be a world leader in vehicle roof safety by 2015". The major Chinese car manufacturer has yet to come forward with detailed designs of the new Marina but the vague sketch shows some similarities to the British Leyland classic.
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