hootjigga

@sos10: exactly. I miss some of the crazy stuff too- but there's just nowhere to go with them.

mostly it's just fear that we'll make the same kind of crazy predictions we did back then. and as i stated when a similar question was first posted, guys like Moller killed it by defrauding anyone and everything that ever came close to it or reading about it.
but you can still see some crazy stuff in the design competitions (like the one Jalopnik posted at the end of the year last year) and at the Tokyo show.

mikedrawcar is back! (limited time only)

Looks sort of like a ripoff of the 1966 Ogle Triplex GTS, though the Pontiac would have probably beat the Scimitar in a rust-off competition.

ranwhenparked

yellofury * * * * *

graverobber- Two BEER minimum

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Bumblebee

@al_beaton: "If Harley Earl had designed a car with seats like that in 1952, he would have been labelled a pervert and lobotimised." Awesome. And it was even more embarrassing for him to have been brought back and hucking Park Avenues.

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Mad_Science

This site gets promoted in the Autoblogreen blog but its an interesting competition. And some of the cars do have potential. Suggestion to the Editor when he arrives back at his batcave in Royal Oak. Promote this site once in a while. It may satisfy your car concept craving.

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allenparkpete

Active charcoal air filters, PlayStation consoles, satellite navigation, radar, night vision, fly-by-wire braking, multiplex wiring, solar-panel cooling, you name it - you can have it. (But not an Espresso machine. Why?)

The car seat was once nothing more than some bent tubes and a strip of canvas (2CV). Now you have side bolsters that seize you by the ass, seats that vibrate and blow hot and cold air up your fundaments, robot arms that pass you your belt and airbags to cosset your squishy bits.

If Harley Earl had designed a car with seats like that in 1952, he would have been labelled a pervert and lobotimised.

The downside is that we now know (and so do they stylists) there's no point in having a 300mph car when there's no place to drive it. There's no point having 0.19 Cd when you're driving a 6.8-litre Triton V10 at an average of 23mph. And there's no point in swoopy bodywork and gullwing doors when the "look" most consumers seem to aspire to is Main Battle Tank.

al_beaton

NovaloadMissesPolar

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot

allenparkpete

I would have loved to have been old enough to have attended the World's Fair in Chicago and seen that thing in the metal. Of course, that would have made me... dead by now, I suppose.

SundaySunday

*Mr. Wert, you're not thinking of leaving us too, are you?

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sos10

FLB

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

Have to justify the cost to the stockholders, you know.

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Bumblebee

We're a different country now. Tailfins have given way to fuel cells in terms of what's sexy. Everyone has a conscience and nobody is willing to be too daring.

On a different note, interesting how the wheels on that rocket-car are fairly pedestrian. Can you imagine someone from that time period being time-travelled forward 50 years and seeing a set of Dee's on a modern car? I wager they'd be as awed by those rediculous wheels as we are by this rocket car's shape.

mechimike

UDMan

Although I don't know why they couldn't've given it a real hatch...

slantsick- leaning 30* towards awesome

Here's a link to the Firebird Kammback wagon I mentioned in an earlier post that the evil monkey ate. DAMN YOU EVIL MONKEY!

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

Yeah, but what good is a forward-control finned Ranchero is the bed is permanently occupied by a nuclear reactor? And talk about harmful emissions...

Guess I'd have to go with the 1956 Chrysler Dart for cruising, the '60 Plymouth XNR for carving.. The Chrysler Turbine is the shit, but that's a limited-production rather than concept car.

slantsick- leaning 30* towards awesome

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Mazda Plainview

1. Nobody likes to be teased by cool and awesome concepts that will never make production.

2. Nobody likes to see watered down pre-production concepts that will actually be produced, only ending up stripped of worthy and distinct characteristics.

Miscellanea

Unfortunately at this point in our history the car of the future is either no car or a B.O.V out of Mad Max. The automakers can't be depressing buyers with concepts like that.

Actually, strike that, I would like to see some good post apocalypse concepts. And maybe one particularly ballsy company can show nothing on a rotating stage as their concept of the car of the future. Maybe Chrysler, although they might ruin the concept by producing nothing next year.

no_slushbox

Isetta

Well two outta three ain't bad! What you got??

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