A concept car from 1980, design by Trevor Fiore
Looks kinda undrivable tbh
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2025
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What's the logic in putting the driver's seat in the middle?
Style, baby!
You can't actually sit under the sloped side windows.
Also noticing the control panel that's on the floor, for some reason. Not to mention a lack of any sort of seatbelts. I know concept cars are not really meant to ever go to production but this one seems particularly silly.
It looks like it might be in front of the left side seat, not on the floor, but the perspective is weird.
So you can have your wife on one side and your mistress on the other. Gotta keep them separated. Duh!
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The McLaren F1 supercar has three seats with the driver in the middle. I couldn't see the reason on the wiki page but do recall seeing a short documentary on it many years ago that did mention why. I just can't recall it unfortunately.
Some benefits for exports too, I suppose. No need to build an RHD version for Britain, Japan, and the others that drive on the left
Concept cars often put creative design ahead of practicality.
as a nerd who dabbled with photography in the past the diagonal shot of the interior is just sooooo good. damn
the lighting is near perfect.
At a glance, I'm thinking that's the planar view from the glass.
Sometimes you've got to just put questionable aesthetics above function until the only possible use for it is to awkwardly demonstrate an ethos of individualism based solely on exorbitant privilege.
Keep going. I'm almost there.
Man, I remember seeing this as a kid in an 1982(1980?) edition of the german AutoKatalog and it friggin blew my mind. It felt so out of this world.
Absolutely love it. I mean, I don't really like the aesthetics all that much, and I can see several impractical things about the design, but I love the reimagination of what a car should look like.
There are plenty of practical reasons why most modern cars follow the same morphology, and any concept that deviates from that quite rightly has some hard questions to answer about safety, but it's not boring, and that earns a lot of goodwill in my book.
TBH it's probably much more practical than a CyberTruck, but that's gotta be the lowest of bars.
I like its undeniable Frenchness 🇫🇷🗼Not so much the practicality
I too use the Japanese TV tower emoji when I can't find the Eiffel tower and go something like "eh, close enough".
I find the omission insulting and I'm not even French.
One person in this entire thread gets it.
This is the pinnacle of car design.
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What in the name of all that's holy is this absolute abomination?
One of the elder cousins that gave birth to the inbred beast Ewon penetrated to create the "cyber" cuckbucket of today
It looked pretty cool until it showed what you see sitting in the driver's seat. The fuck kinda windshield is that? lol
Are you talking about the last photo? I'm pretty sure that's taken from outside the car, through the rear window (or at least where it would be). You can see the backs of the three seats at the bottom. The thing that is obstructing the centre of the view is just close to the camera. If you look at the rear view photo which shows the tail lights, you can see a much better view through the front windscreen
That view was from the back seat, not the driver's seat. I think it's a rear view camera but cameras were huge back then.
Ewwww! Its like the cybertruck but worse! Too round.
lol I was going to say the exact opposite - “the cybertruck wishes it was this cool”
Kinda but not really. This one is clearly pyramid shaped, and pyramids are cool, while the Cybertruck is just a double sided door stop, but less useful.