Giugiaro Glass Roof Mustang: You Have to See it to Believe it.
Fabrizio Giugiaro and the boys at Italdesign Giugiaro have had their hands full creating one of the most stunning Mustangs ever to grace the stage of a car show. Spotted earlier this year in Italy by a mustang enthusiast the new Giugiaro creation has finally been unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show and the finished product looks absolutely breathtaking.
With a slippery fastback skin, aggressive front end treatment, scissor doors and a bold sleek rear-end that rivals any European exotic this Mustang is well beyond any tuner version of Ford’s pony car that we have seen in the past. But the most eye-catching feature on the whole car starts where the hood ends and ends where the trunk begins. To achieve radical new look for the concept Mustang, Italdesign Giugiaro made the windshield, panoramic roof and rear window out of one solid glass unit. The look is astonishing, but the process is just as amazing.
This one-piece roof was not something that could be created in house, so Giugiaro went to Saflex, a part of Solutia Inc., to create the all-glass top. The panel is made of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) glass which has solar-absorbing abilities. In a vehicle where the occupants face this much exposure to the sun, these solar-absorbing characteristics are crucial. The Saflex interlayer absorbs infrared energy and radiates it back outside the glass. In addition the roof provides 50 SPF. The Saflex PVB glass also proved to be the perfect medium to work in for the Mustang by Giugiaro concept because its single interlayer construction is well-suited to complex curves such as those in the Mustang’s roof line.
-Bill Mertz
Giugiaro, Italdesign, Mustang, Ford, Concept, Saflex, LA Auto Show
February 11th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I really like its exterior design.
Have a great Mustang Parts Day.