I really wish car companies would actually release production models that looked like the concept models. These look so goddamn cool.
I don’t need to see out the back if I’m staring into the future!
Chrysler used to do that. Did you ever put your money where your mouth is and buy a P.T. Cruiser, Prowler, or Crossfire?
Hell yeah, I owned a PT for about a year, that car was fun to drive. Never been able to hold the gas pedal to the floor for as long in any other car!
Never been able to hold the gas pedal to the floor for as long in any other car!
LOL, I see what you did there.
Fiat 500, my friend.
I really wanted a crossfire, but couldn’t afford one at the time
Just make a regular looking car that happens to be EV. I don’t know why manufacturers have to make the dumbest looking vehicles for their EV cars.
Styles are changing, I guess they’re focus grouping it and people want cars from blade runner. No longer requiring a radiator or exhaust has actually produced some interesting designs.
No longer requiring a radiator or exhaust has actually produced some interesting designs.
I would rather just have more storage. I think lucid did it right for EV design, same with Rivian. Seems like the legacy car manufacturers always make a goofy design. The lucid air for example is a foot shorter than the S class but has more space.
Practical EVs exist too. It’s an open market so there will be something for everyone I’m sure. If you really hate EV design you can buy the conversion kits for a classic.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much, the concept cars always look sleek and then the manufacturers poop out something that looks way more standard. See: the Chevy Volt.
I’m with you on this. I feel like manufacturers still feel like people are wanting to make a statement by making EVs look like their suited for spaceflight. I’d rather have near similar looking models to what we’ve already got with the combustion engine, with aerodynamic considerations for efficiency baked in.
No real specs are being released, but Honda says these future EVs will be both partially and fully autonomous, depending on the configuration.
Doubt
Does cruise control and lane assist count as “partially autonomous”?
They’ll say anything buzzwordy to hype investors
Marginally nicer looking than the cybertruck. I would steal this in GTA if I played GTA and it was a car in the game
I just want the damn Honda E little hatchback thing in the US
Looks amazing, but is also $48,000 USD for a very small car. I drive a 89 CRX so I do love small cars, just that is way too much.
All evs are overpriced right now sadly
It looks like the head of a vacuum cleaner. Or a Star Trek TOS phaser.
Ever notice how all the new selling points for cars are all things to avoid the experience of driving a car:
-self driving (because why would you want to drive a car)
-giant screens (because why would you want to look at all the shitty strip malls)
-tinted windows (because you wouldn’t want to be seen driving this piece of shit)
-self driving (because why would you want to drive a car)
Don’t use it/pay for self driving option
-giant screens (because why would you want to look at all the shitty strip malls)
People have been putting screens in cars for a very long time.
-tinted windows (because you wouldn’t want to be seen driving this piece of shit)
People have been tinting windows for a very long time
That’s all that cars have become. It’s great for anyone who doesn’t like driving, it sucks for anyone who enjoys it
Make a CRX-E
I’ll second that!
They look great imo, but the full self driving is a pipe dream.
I dunno. If there is a culture that I think has innovated great ideas into reality it’s the Japanese car companies. They took what we wanted in the 80s and made it happen. Then kept doing it.
I really hope that back end is the charging port and you get to park you car like one of those toy cars that you you ‘charge’ up and fire across the room.
Why do these concept vehicles always have to look this dumb and impractical? Why can’t we get EU sized personal electric vehicles? Think Fiat 500 or the Renault Twingo?
Cuz you guys don’t buy them. Got another easy question?
Also because of the way emissions standards are enforced in the US, SUVs and trucks are held to lower emissions standards making them more profitable. They receive the heaviest marketing and therefore sell the most.
Holy fuck, do I love capitalism.
Doesn’t BMW have a little electric commuter?
Looks like someone watched The Wraith recently.
It’s only list! Just got it
Wait, no side mirrors AND you can’t see out the back? I guess you can only ever go forward in this thing or just hope there’s nothing behind you ever (I’m guessing they have rear-facing cameras, but those suck).
Prototypes look cooler without mirrors, they always add them after
Countach vibes…
Back to the Future II vibes. Never mind that its “future” setting was nine years ago…
I’m been hearing about all sorts of electric vehicles that will be available “a few years from now” for over five years now. The few that have come out are expensive and have compromises. Guess I’ll be sticking with my plug-in hybrid for quite a while longer.
