French: à l’échelle 1English translation: full scale/life-size 
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Marketing - Manufacturing / Car manufacture | | French term or phrase: à l’échelle 1 | Seemingly French marketing speak...
Here is the entire sentence, from a press release about a prize-winning car design, soon to be in production:
En effet, l’atelier du Centre de style (marque X)fabriquera le concept car X à l’échelle 1 afin de l’exposer sur le stand X du prochain salon de Francfort, en septembre 2005.
Is it to do with production-run numbers perhaps? If so, is this 'echelle 1' unique to car manufacturing or would it be any kind of production? And does anyone know the equivalent term or an accurate rendering in English? Thanks |
| | | full scale, life-size | Explanation:
i.e. it's not a scale model.
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Note added at 7 mins (2005-03-01 20:42:56 GMT)
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Applies to any kind of production.
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Note added at 12 mins (2005-03-01 20:47:13 GMT)
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RenShape modelling boards have been used to build the first Sports Utility Vehicle ever developed by Alfa Romeo. The concept car was made by Italy’s leading automotive model makers, Stola S.p.A in Just 20 days.
The project began with Alfa Romeo’s design team providing sketches and digital data for the vehicle to modelmakers at Stola. Initially a 1:4 scale model was produced and used by the Alfa design team for evaluation and assessment. A full-scale model was then machined from RenShape BM5185 modelling boards
[http://cgi.johnburn.co.uk/case.php?caseid=1]
The front of the car would also be given a makeover... This is the first full-scale
model of the Java, showing its vetically-stacked twin headlights which ...
www.austin-rover.co.uk/rrprotof.htm
The full scale model barely differs from its predecessor ... In the field of automobile
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www.cedea.cz/en/projekty_porsche.php
were to complex to use the real planes, so they made a full scale model out of ...
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l\'Espace is a new space museum with a lifesize model of the Ariane 5 spaceship and a replica of Mir. It also has a planetarium. (To get there by car: take the ...
www.worldsapartreview.com/toulouse.htm
September 2000 to elect a futuristic vehicle of the ... move in the history of car manufacturing, brought ... Peugeot who will produce a lifesize prototype.The concept ...
www.newcarnet.co.uk/NCN_406_newsarchiveitem.html
MegaRail Transportation Systems Completes Initial Tests of First Full Scale
Prototype MicroRail PAT Car. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. FORT ...
www.megarail.com/pr/library/2002/oct/25prototype
The final stage of this design development phase was to use the ICEM Surf model
data to machine a full-scale prototype model of the car for showing at the ...
www.cadserver.co.uk/common/ viewer/archive/2004/Jan/23/feature12.phtm
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Bourth
France
| Note from asker to answererYep - looks spot on to me. I wanted to make sure I was interpreting the meaning of 'echelle' correctly, i.e. in terms of the size of the thing - as opposed to the scale of the production of it. Thanks.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
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| full scale, life-size
Explanation:
i.e. it's not a scale model.
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Note added at 7 mins (2005-03-01 20:42:56 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
Applies to any kind of production.
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Note added at 12 mins (2005-03-01 20:47:13 GMT)
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RenShape modelling boards have been used to build the first Sports Utility Vehicle ever developed by Alfa Romeo. The concept car was made by Italy’s leading automotive model makers, Stola S.p.A in Just 20 days.
The project began with Alfa Romeo’s design team providing sketches and digital data for the vehicle to modelmakers at Stola. Initially a 1:4 scale model was produced and used by the Alfa design team for evaluation and assessment. A full-scale model was then machined from RenShape BM5185 modelling boards
[http://cgi.johnburn.co.uk/case.php?caseid=1]
The front of the car would also be given a makeover... This is the first full-scale
model of the Java, showing its vetically-stacked twin headlights which ...
www.austin-rover.co.uk/rrprotof.htm
The full scale model barely differs from its predecessor ... In the field of automobile
styling (design, interior ... prototype parts and prototype car building) CEDEA ...
www.cedea.cz/en/projekty_porsche.php
were to complex to use the real planes, so they made a full scale model out of ...
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/4303/truelies.html
l\'Espace is a new space museum with a lifesize model of the Ariane 5 spaceship and a replica of Mir. It also has a planetarium. (To get there by car: take the ...
www.worldsapartreview.com/toulouse.htm
September 2000 to elect a futuristic vehicle of the ... move in the history of car manufacturing, brought ... Peugeot who will produce a lifesize prototype.The concept ...
www.newcarnet.co.uk/NCN_406_newsarchiveitem.html
MegaRail Transportation Systems Completes Initial Tests of First Full Scale
Prototype MicroRail PAT Car. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. FORT ...
www.megarail.com/pr/library/2002/oct/25prototype
The final stage of this design development phase was to use the ICEM Surf model
data to machine a full-scale prototype model of the car for showing at the ...
www.cadserver.co.uk/common/ viewer/archive/2004/Jan/23/feature12.phtm
| Bourth
France
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 132
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| Note from asker to answerer| Yep - looks spot on to me. I wanted to make sure I was interpreting the meaning of 'echelle' correctly, i.e. in terms of the size of the thing - as opposed to the scale of the production of it. Thanks. |
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