The way forward for automotive design is wanting much more modern thanks to a few younger designers who have been lately chosen because the finalists within the eleventh annual Stellantis Drive for Design competitors.

Grand-prize winner Rocco Morales is a earlier Drive for Design contest winner who completed first in 2022 and second in 2021. Morales, a twelfth grader from Northville, Michigan, submitted a design for the Ram Stadion, which might “create a brand new section of pickup vans.” In Morales’ successful design, a totally succesful off-road machine might simply remodel into a soothing place to hang around with stadium seating and a deployable cover.

Morales’ grand prize features a summer season design internship on the Ram Truck Exterior Design Studio and a Wacom MobileStudio Professional 16 pill.

“Rocco is clearly a passionate designer with a brilliant future forward of him,” mentioned Mark Trostle, head of Ram Truck and Mopar Exterior Design for Stellantis. “It will likely be nice having somebody desperate to be taught and expertise knowledgeable design studio.”

This yr’s contest challenged college students in grades 10-12 to sketch the next-generation Ram EV truck. The inventive submissions revealed brand-new ideas and a glimpse into the minds of up-and-coming designers.

Rohan Seiber, a tenth grader from Portola Valley, California, and Benjamin Miller, an eleventh grader from Birmingham, Michigan, rounded out the top-three finishers on this yr’s contest. Seiber’s Ram Rex truck “reimagines the TRX to be the final word go-anywhere, do-anything full-size electrical pickup truck,” together with a configurable mattress platform and distinctive exterior lighting and exterior rail system. Miller’s Ram Ultima is constructed round a modular design that may permit the proprietor so as to add extra energy and traction as wanted.

Seiber and Miller might be awarded an Apple iPad Professional and Apple Pencil, a Digital Day of Design portfolio evaluate with members of the Stellantis Design Staff and a scholarship to School for Artistic Research’ four-week summer season program.

“Yearly, I’m blown away by the creativity and enthusiasm of those college students,” mentioned Trostle, whose win in an analogous highschool contest guided his personal profession path. “It’s actually tough to decide on a winner as a result of every design is so distinctive and considerate. Our complete workforce is worked up to work with these college students, and I’m already wanting ahead to subsequent yr’s contest.”

To see the highest submissions on this yr’s contest, go to www.StellantisDriveForDesign.com and comply with the Stellantis North America social media channels.