We expect at least couple of these outlandish cars to hit the roads by 2020!
Concept cars are amalgamation of the artist’s vision and the engineer’s ideation. It is necessary for the automation industry to keep generating model designs for futuristic cars as ideas for branding and as a projection of their companies’ future realities.
Automakers from across the globe, apart from their regular production lines, release their bleeding-edge designs of futuristic concept cars each year, either via engineers or freelance designers, and announce their predicted specs while keeping the drooling car enthusiast in the dark about the launch date.
And some of these cars may not remain as mere design concepts.
We will walk you through some of the designs from leading automakers and few of these, we think, are works of pure artistic and technological genius.
Renault R.S. 2027
Blazing bright gold and black at an auto show in Shanghai, this sleek, aerodynamic concept car is meant for F1 race tracks.
The Renault RS 2027 has wheels equipped with LED displays. The speed demon (no pun intended) also has intricate LED lighting along its sides and the front wings, limited autonomous control in case of accidents, sequential engaging of all-electric drive, four-wheel drive with four-wheel steering, and a transparent cockpit with a covering that looks made of Plexiglas.
Audi e-Tron Sportback
Audi’s e-tron – a suspiciously electric-SUV crossover – has stunned us at its first look. It has an illuminated Audi logo on its front façade. Who doesn’t like RGB? Yes, the influence (Tron) is quite obvious!
The e-Tron Sportback is an emission-free, all-electric crossover with a number of futuristic elements like steering-mounted touch controls, multiple OLED infotainment screens in the cabin for entertainment, operations and services, cameras in place of ORVMs, etc.
It will reportedly be able to deliver up to 400bhp and accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds.
Tesla Model SD
Tesla model S, with all its top notch specs, still received mild criticism for its Anodyne front design. And so Steel Drake, an industrial and graphic designer with several feathers to his cap, came up with a Model SD design that looks nowhere like its predecessor.
The Model SD is slightly more compact than the original Model S. It features a multicolor light strip at the front, has a suicide door setup, lacks a rear window (which probably means there is a camera to help look behind), and has air intake and exhaust shafts for better aerodynamics.
The headlights are hidden behind the front fascia.
This design may not make perfect sense, given that a few of its features mentioned above can cause discomfort. The side and rear doors have small viewing windows that can rob you off picturesque scenery.
There are hundreds of other concept cars out there but we have limited our scope here to three.
Let us know if you agree with this list and what we have missed out on!