Concept Supercars

Icare Motorcycle Should Have Been in Final Fantasy: Advent Children

(12 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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Seen Advent Children? If I remember well Cloud Strife and the “bad guys” had motorcycles that were similar to the concept below. This is the Icare futuristic bike, coming from Enzyme Design and packing a Honda 6 cylinder flat engine (1800cm3).

The front of the bike has got some sort of “alien head” thing going on, but I for one still miss Cloud’s sword holders and huge exhaust pipes from the sides of the Advent Children motorcycles.

[via Tuvie]

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Tatra 903 Concept Sportscar, NOT a Heavy Truck!

(13 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

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In case you’re familiar with the Tatra brand you probably know that they produce heavy trucks. Well at least in the world of concepts they’re able to brand a supercar like the one below, its design pertaining to Mike Jelinek. He created this concept design for Czech magazine AutoDesign & Styling.

The Tatra 903 is a fuel cell luxury sportscar that features a beautiful aerodynamic design. Its water drop shape reminds me of the gangster cars from the golden years of jazz in the US and hopefully we’ll see this turn into a real automobile some day.

[via Yanko Design]

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BMW GINA Light Visionary Model Concept Supercar Finally Revealed

(18 votes, average: 4.78 out of 5)

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Talk about futuristic design… the supercar you can see below is the GINA concept, coming straight from the bright minds of the BMW people. GINA is short for “Geometry and Function in ‘N’ Adaptations”, which according to Autoblog means that both the original BMW team and the folks of BMW Group DesignworksUSA worked on this beauty.

GINA’s outer skin is made out of textile fabric, wrapped around a metallic frame and carbon fiber wires. Add to that a neat skeleton controlled by electro-hydraulic devices and the means to change shape beneath the car’s skin. Want an example? GINA’s headlights can be hidden or exposed, depending on the way the car’s skin is set.

This vehicle resembles the Z4 Roadster quite a lot and GINA features doors that open in a semi-scissor pattern without the use of hinges. Be sure to check out the video below in order to understand that we’re dealing with the future of automotive design right here.

[via Autoblog]

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Front Open Wheel Racer Concept Would Make the Batmobile Cry in Its Pillow

(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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Batmobile who? Just look at this beauty, seemingly a hybrid between an F1 automobile, the famous Batmobile and some buggie I was driving in Halo 3. It’s been designed by Jeff Smith, with the aid of Sketchbook Pro and the vehicle features a cockpit hatch and 80’s style rear Camero air intake vents.

The concept is called the “Front Open Wheel Racer” and we might be looking at the racing vehicle of … let’s say 2012.

[via Coroflot]

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Yamaha Deus Ex Machina Wearable Motorcycle Concept is Better Than a Car

(12 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)

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I know that this is not a supercar, but still it’s an amazing vehicle, created by Jake Loniak, design student. Yamaha Deus Ex Machina is an electric wearable motorcycle, as unbelievable as it may seem. It can park vertically and it can only hold one passenger.

The contraption is controlled with the aid of 36 muscles plus 2 linear actuators and it can go from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds. However, it has a 75 miles per hour top speed, pretty decent for such a crazy concept.

[via Engadget]

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Scuderia Bizzarrini P538 Gets Resurrected and Soon Official

(9 votes, average: 4.78 out of 5)

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If you’re familiar to the Le Mans racing history, you must have heard about the Bizzarrini P538, a supercar that wasn’t among the most prolific racers, but surely a looker and powerful vehicle. It was back in the 1960’s when the P538 first surfaced and now it’s being revamped for the sake of the supercar lovers.

What you see above is a computer rendering of the automobile, but you have to know that it uses borrowed chassis from the Galmer Arbitrage GT and a mid-mounted Chevrolet LS7 V8 engine.

Its design is something of a hybrid between a Koenigsegg and a Lotus, but with an original approach. We’ll be seeing an official unveiling of the car in Italy this month, but we don’t know if it’ll make it to the production stage.

[Via Autoblog]

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Ferrari 2008 Concept Design, Not For the Faint Hearted

(21 votes, average: 4.76 out of 5)

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After checking out the Lamborghini Reventon experience we’ve gone blind for a few days, but now that we’ve come back to daylight, there’s a neat batch of photos showing a Ferrari 2008 concept design in here.

Check out the A-pillar forward. Does it spell Maserati yo you? Never mind that, as the car still looks uber-cool, but very much NOT like the Ferrari supercars we know and love. Congrats to Luca Serafini for his neat design and here’s a gallery of his great automotive works.

[via Autoblog]

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Volkswagen Viseo Prototype Car Comes With a Huge OLED Display

(14 votes, average: 4.79 out of 5)

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The white prototype car you can see below is really a Volkswagen, even if you can’t believe it. Viseo is designed by Marc Kirsch, who collaborated with Volkswagen design from Wolfsburg and turned this into a brilliant diploma project. It’s an ecological vehicle above all, sporting an electric engine and its lines have been influenced by the architect Santiago Calatrava.

Volkswagen Viseo comes with a beautiful and fragile glass surface on its top side, covered with a flexible OLED film. What’s it used for? Communication, so expect to see movies and commercials on this beauty. It seems we’ve got a business supercar on our hands, since it features a specially designed suitcase space and a giant “display” a la Microsoft Surface.

[via Yanko Design]

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Mazda Taiki, the Future of Automotive Design

(12 votes, average: 4.58 out of 5)

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There are concept supercars inspired by animals, others by human emotions and some by … other supercars. Score one for Mother Nature, as Mazda have just “gone with the wind” and inspired their Taiki design from the flow of wind. “Taiki” is the visual expression of the atmosphere, as seen through its beautiful lines.

Is it just me, or does this car resemble the Batmobile a bit? Back to the serious bit of this concept, Mazda stated that the car’s design is inspired by the wind flowing through a Hagoromo (“flowing robes that enable a celestial maiden to fly”). Now that’s open thinking!

[via Yanko Design]

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Lamborghini Reventon Unboxing Experience in Las Vegas

(28 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5)

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In case you’ve hit the jackpot in Las Vegas and you don’t know what do to with $ 1 million, we suggest you get in line (and start hoping) for a Lamborghini Reventon. The first model has just been sold via the Lamborghini of Las Vegas dealership, while the rest of 19 are already pre-ordered.

Officially, only 20 Reventon units will be built, but keep praying, who knows? The new Lamborghini goes from 0 to 62 mph in just 3.4 seconds, just like the Murcielago LP640. The beauty you can see in the pics attached to the article also includes most of the mechanical elements (plus engine) taken from LP640.

It’s got a 6.5 litre V12 engine with a total output of 650 HP and this 2 door sports car is a mid-engine four-wheel drive monster with a 6-speed e-gear.

[via Autoblog]

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