All Influential concept cars articles – Page 5
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ArticleConcept Car of the Week: Norman Timbs Special (1948)
Like a Hollywood take on a German race car, this sleek road-legal roadster was both out of place and time
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Concept Car of the Week: Buick Centurion (1956)
The centrepiece of General Motors legendary Motorama shows, the Buick Centurion was the combined talent of Harley Earl and Charles ‘Chuck’ Jordan
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Concept Car of the Week: Pininfarina Maserati Birdcage (2006)
In the late 1950s Maserati launched a series of lightweight racing cars to conquer the 24 hours of Le Mans as well as other famous races. Known as ‘Birdcages’, the cars were constructed of a latticework of chromium/molybdenum steel tubing and covered by light sheet metal.
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Concept Car of the Week: Chrysler ecoVoyager (2008)
Not quite the future of the luxury car, but an interesting experimental monospace
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Concept Car of the Week: Cadillac N.A.R.T. (1970)
A racing team's redesigned Eldorado, by Zagato
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Concept Car of the Week: L'Oeuf Electrique (1942)
The mother of all bubble cars has something to say to us about the car of the future
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Concept Car of the Week: The Kar-A-Sutra (1972)
In 1972 the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York held an exhibition: Italy: The New Domestic Landscape. A number of avant-garde Italian architects and designers were invited to submit work for what would become one of the seminal exhibitions of the decade, and included Mario Bellini’s Kar-A-Sutra
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Concept Car of the Week: Stout Scarab (1936)
Taking inspiration from aviation to create the world’s first minivan the Stout Scarab, The Scarab recently acted as inspiration for the Hyundai Prophecy concept (2020)
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Concept Car of the Week: Ford Indigo (1996)
Twenty years ago, Ford predicted an IndyCar in every garage
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Rinspeed previews a 2017 concept car – complete with space to grow plants
Interesting Oasis concept will debut at January’s CES in Las Vegas
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Concept Car of the Week: General Motors Firebird IV/Buick Century Cruiser (1964/1969)
The concept car that believed you only live twice
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Corvette Rondine (1963)
Ask any Corvette enthusiast the significance of the year 1963 and an excited smile will break across his or her face. That was the year of the introduction of the second generation Corvette, the C2, with its dramatic styling, shape, and controversial split rear window, all courtesy of Larry Shinoda and the GM Design team.
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Lincoln Quicksilver (1983)
A forgotten concept from an era of radical aerodynamic experiments
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Concept Car of the Week: Colani Ferrari Testa D’oro (1989)
A record-breaking aerodynamic fantasy created by design’s ‘nutty professor’
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Concept Car of the Week: Opel Trixx (2004)
A look back at GM’s attempt at a smarter Smart city car
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Concept Car of the Week: Volvo YCC (2004)
The car designed by an all-female team that raised some important questions as well as eyebrows
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Concept Car of the Week: Vauxhall Equus (1978)
Wayne Cherry's favourite car: "the most uncompromised design I've ever worked on"
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Concept Car of the Week: Ford Seattle-ite XXI (1962)
Ford’s vision for spaceage, nuclear-powered cross-country driving
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Concept Car of the Week: Autobianchi A112 Giovani (1973)
A generation ago, Autobianchi stood for innovation in packaging and engineering. Formed in 1955 as joint project by Bianchi, Pirelli, and FIAT, the small company was “the mouse that roared”, creating a limited number of models, each unique in the marketplace, and frequently serving as platforms for innovative features FIAT hoped to incorporate in future models.
