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Well, it’s not just any old mobile home ...

By Chris Erskine
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Maybe RVs are the future. A concept that would combine loft living with a six-wheeled chassis won this year’s Los Angeles Vehicle Design Challenge, a competition between 10 local design studios. The GM entry’s win was announced last week at the opening of the L.A. Auto Show.

Dubbed the PAD, its designers called it “a modern alternative to those priced out of Southern California’s escalating housing market.”

“When the cheapest little cottage in North Hollywood is going for $500,000, then maybe it’s time to be coming up with some new ideas,” PAD designer Steve Anderson said.

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“This design was the one which took the biggest risk,” said juror Stewart Reed of Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design.

Other members of the winning design team from GM’s West Coast Advanced Design Studio were Senon B. Franco III, Jay Bernard, Phil Tanioka, Sidney Levy, Brian Horton, Alessandro Zezza, Christine Ebner and Frank Saucedo.

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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