Monday, October 30, 2006

X-Wings

Wondering what this bizarre moulded plastic contraption is?

No, it's not the latest Power Ranger, a Japanese lawnmower or proof that pterodactyls were rather more sophisticated than we first thought.

It is, in fact, the winning concept car at the Interior Motives car design awards.

Designed by Iman Maghsoudi of the Azad University in Iran, it apparently represents a vision of the future in which the considerations of space and resources will impact on the way people drive.

It features an extended front wing that lifts the nose off the ground at high speeds so that it is as much flown as driven.

Maghsoudi says that the gliding car uses current technologies and could be the direction in which the automotive industry will head.

All very nice, but we have to ask: where do you hang the furry dice?

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