The official Instagram account of Common Motors Design printed just a few sketches of the all-new GMC Sierra EV, however one among them regarded suspiciously just like a Rivian R1T picture. A more in-depth look reveals that the designer didn’t solely borrow the reasonable background from the picture, however truly used the rival pickup as a base for his GMC-branded sketch.

The embarrassing mistake was caught by many Instagram customers, together with one among our readers who grabbed a screenshot earlier than the rendering was faraway from the picture set, after GM realized the blunder.

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The sketch in query was created by Thomas Bergeron who works as a Director of Design at GM’s design studio in South Korea. The picture was flipped and the colour temperature was tweaked a bit, however these adjustments weren’t sufficient to cover its origins.

As you may see from the direct comparability, the higher a part of the rear windscreen, the roof, the wheels, the fenders, and many of the profile are straight sourced from the Rivian R1T. Solely the vertically-mounted LED taillights, the taller tailgate, and the slimmer rear bumper had been redesigned to resemble the GMC Sierra EV, though the latter nonetheless borrows styling cues from the Rivian. Zooming in on the rendering reveals seen cut-and-paste strains from Photoshop, exhibiting that this was extra of a tough sketch and fewer of a cultured materials destined for use for promotional functions.

We must always make it clear that the manufacturing model of the GMC Sierra EV doesn’t resemble the Rivian R1T nor was it designed off of this sketch. Additionally it is frequent follow amongst designers to begin their sketches and renderings utilizing the proportions from a photograph as a reference. Whereas that is completely nice behind the closed doorways of design studios, automakers should be sure that the entire materials used is freed from references to their rivals.

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