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Stackable Robot Car
Designed and engineered by MIT’s Smart Cities group, this stackable robot car gives compact a new meaning. In addition to being stackable, they are also eco friendly. This “wheel robot” powered car has wheels with integrated motors which can also rotate a full 360 degrees while moving. You won’t find seatbelts in this car becuase responsive seats, also called “fingers”, hold a person back during an accident.
SAAB Aero-X Concept
If you’ve been waiting for a futuristic sports coupe, look no further than SAAB’s Aero-X concept. Powered by a twin-turbo, 400 bhp BioPower V6 engine, this concept is all about eye candy, with a cockpit canopy (replaces doors and windscreen pillars) that gives the driver full 180-degree views. The ultralight carbon fiber chassis, lightweight powertrain, and all-wheel drive suspension help the Aero-X rocket from 0-62 mph in just 4.9 seconds (computer simulated trials). [Source]
Honorable Mention – Fiat’s Truckster Concept
This strange-looking vehicle sports 28-inch rims, hydraulically controlled gullwing doors, LED headlights, aerodynamic spoiler, and smoked glass windows. It measures “6.48 metres long, 2.55 metres high and 2.49 metres wide”. [Source]
The next shape is right for the lack of parking place.
Germany always used to pose itself as a snooker empire. The new German Audi concept without wheels and the rollers instead attracts so that everyone can say: “What?! What was it?! Is it…a car?!”
But here is quite more extraordinary concept Peugeot 360 which has spheres to move in any direction the drivers want. Of course, the vehicle possesses the onboard computer for the best navigation.The degradation of wheels has become a good tradition for Ferrari Monza Car families as well. Though the auto has aeroappearence, winglets called canards were used for this model.
The following alien car has been designed exactly for silent speed. The director of Italiandesign Quaranta Fabrizio Giugiaro claims the car can show more than 200 kph and still doesn’t make any noise at all.
The old good Renault Nepta concept has now become very popular among concept cars. The opening panels which make the four passengers vehicle cabriolet make the conditioning and comfort ability of the concept unique.
Nissan Pivo 2 has also surrealistic features. It is electric powered and gives the access to any doors as well. But the craziest feature about this vehicle is 360 degrees rotation.
And here is one feature about this car: it is equipped with Nissan’s Around View Monitor that allows avoiding blind spots.
This is Mazda Kazamai Crossover. It also uses aerodynamics as the other concepts do. But the most famous feature of the concept is its 30% fuel consumption thanks to special MZR 2.0 liter petrol engine.
The B.A.T. concept cars based on the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione are considered to be the most hopeful vehicles in the future. They tend to be hydrogen or fuel-cell unit that means the car is green.
This Airflow by Pierre Sabas of France was produced mostly of glass. And despite the standard set of electric powered motor and body orientated for good parking, the vehicle also has possibility to slide out while running into corners.