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The Ferrari Zobin Concept

The Ferrari Zobin Concept designed by Siamak Ruhi Dehkordi. The concept inspired by the Ferrari F-1 cars. A single-seat aerodynamic sportscar. The former is an F1 car with an enclosed body and the F1-inspired front fenders, nose. The motor looks like mounted in the mid-rear position. A very cool Ferrari concept with Ferrari F-1 design.
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2008 LA Design Challenge

What will you image the the World of Motorsport in the year 2025? This year's LA Design Challenge will tell you, they choose the "Motorsports 2025" as this year's theme. You can see the concepts come from the Audi, Mitsubishi, BMW, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, GM, Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen. The upper pictures are the Mercedes-Benz Formula Zero.
The 2008 LA Design Challenge includes Audi R25, Hydrogen Powered Salt Flat Racer, Chaparral Volt, Honda The Great Race 2025, Mazda Kaan, Mitsubishi MMR25, Mercedes-Benz Formula Zero, Toyota Lemans Racer, Volkswagen Bio Runner.
"Luxury racing arrives in the Formula Zero Racer by incorporating the thrill of Formula One, the track dynamics of the bobsled or luge, and the grace and efficiency of yacht racing. Reminiscent of the Mercedes Benz racing heritage of the 1930's, the Formula Zero Racer is loaded with technology designed to extract the maximum thrust from the electric hub motors, aero-efficient solar skin and high-tech rigid sail. Each team is allocated the same amount of stored energy and it is left to the teams and drivers to manage the variables to win the race. The winner is determined by total elapsed time combined with the energy efficiency factor. Spectators at the Mercedes Benz Formula Zero racing Series are treated to a new dimension of racing as the transparent track is visible from all perspectives - even from below!"
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Peugeot Design Contest 2008 Winner

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If you remember the 10 Finalist in PEUGEOT Design Contest 2008. Now Colombia's Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar (folding RD Concept) has been choose as the winner, a 25-year-old designer from Colombia. You can see a life sized replica at the next year's Shanghai Auto Show.
"His 3-wheeled design is called the RD and like most of the other entries, it is small and made for driving on narrow roads. During periods of heavy traffic or when space is limited, it can fold upward and shorten the overall length by a substantial amount. "
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Nissan Nuvu Concept - Electric Vehicle

Nissan's Nuvu debuts this week at the Paris motor show. Nuvu is an electric vehicle, is agile, easy to drive and even easier to park. This mini car is just 3 meters and with 2+1 seating. The solar panels on its glass roof; its design takes a tree theme, with leaf-shapes for the solar panels and a trunk-style design in its cabin. The cabin is finished in natural, organic and recycled materials. "It represents Nissan's commitment to electric vehicle technology, considering that Nissan has already announced that it will present a production-ready EV at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, with sales due to start in Japan and North America in 2010. Whilst Nuvu is not that car, it does share some of the technology that will feature in the planned production vehicle."
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10 Finalist in PEUGEOT Design Contest 2008

The 10 Finalist in PEUGEOT Design Contest 2008.
"Create a Concept Car which is designed to evolve within the cities of the future, whilst retaining the key values of the 21st century. The projects should bear Peugeot's stylistic codes and must contain the following four aspects included in this design competition: environmental awareness, social harmony, interactive mobility and economic efficiency"
The Pics is the Peugeot 888 conecpt by Oskar Johansen. When leaving the city, entering the highway the vehicles requirements alter to "need for speed" Lowering the vehicle to a closed shape, the car gets a long distance between the wheel axis and a low point of gravity which gives the car stability at high speed.
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Bimotrik Conecpt

Designer Jonathan Mahieddine designed this vehicle - the Bimotrik. This concept is for the Peugeot Design Contest. This vehicle is a fusion of a bike and a car as it looks like a trike with a roof attached to it. Powered by hydrogen or electricity engine. And it has the very wing-like doors. Cool concpet! Check out see more pics.
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Mini Crossover Concept with New MINI Center Globe

Have you seen the Mini Crossover Concept? If you are the mini fan? BMW has released a series of sketches of their new Mini Crossover Concept. The MINI Crossover Concept is a new model variant for the first time measuring more than four metres in length, with four drive wheels, four doors and four single seats. It is for maximum comfort inside the MINI. It also has a new display and control concept - the MINI Center Globe. The central display and control unit is designed in this Concept Study as a globe. This 3D globe will integrate control of entertainment, communication, navigation, and vehicle functions... Check out see more pics.
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NASA Concept Car Can Spin 360 degrees

The NASA Concept Car designed by two czech students of industrial design at TBU in Zlin, Marek Kedzierski and Michal Vlček. It is designed to rotate 360 degrees with extreme ease that inturn enables the car to be driven sideways. Next time you can pack at the parallel place.
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Audi O Concept

The 2008 Audi O concept designed by Ondrej Jirec, a design student from the Czech Republic. It with the glass windows are the bottom edge design and a full length panoramic roof. Geart! This concept designed to equipment with the power audio system. This audio system features with the internet connectivity and Bluetooth, it also built-in a 650 GB hard drive(Why 650GB, a strange num?). It also features Bluetooth system can connect two or more Audi O cars to play audio over a wider area. The Audi O also features a pullout rear door fitted with a DJ set with mixing decks.
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BMW 2015 Concept by Transportation Design students

The final projects of the Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design), developed in partnership with BMW with the goal of creating a car for 2015 interpreting the language evolution and the brand's philosophy. The image is the BMW ZX-6 Concept by Jai Ho Yoo and Lukas Vanek. The 8 final 1:4 scale models will be displayed at the Istituto Europeo di Design, in Via S. Quintino 39, Turin, within the "Apriti IED" event, until the end of September 2008 (visiting hours: 09:00 ¨C 13:00 and 14:00 ¨C 18:00). Admission is free.
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Citroen 2CV Concept

Good news for the legendary Citroen 2CV lovers. Designer David Portela is reinterpreting the classic model. In order to retain the charm of the original 2CV, this new Citroen 2CV Concept features the same curved bonnet, slab sides and covered rear wheels. Keeping trademark details such as the slatted bonnet, the concept features flush modernistic panoramic windows and Steampunky exteriors. The old Citroen 2CV with mordern design.
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Aqua Submersible Watercraft

This concept is a one-manned submersible watercraft that can sail both on and under the surface of water. It was developed for the day when, due to increased crowding and pollution, humans will be living on and under the oceans. Then, people will need a new type of underwater transportation, like a submersible craft. The Aqua has a dolphin-like shape that is ideal for moving under the water. The design also explored controlling buoyancy, supplying oxygen and how to protect the driver from water pressure. Designed by Korean designers Sungchul Yang and Woonghee Han. See more Design Award Winners, 2008 from businessweek.
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Proxima - The Car Bike

We have seen a similar product, The Cirbin V13R($55,000) a three wheeled sports vechicle. Today we will see this concept, the Proxima Bike/Car Hybrid Concept. Proxima is meant to be a merge between a car and a motobike. It has 2 tandem seats. From the front to the rear it ideally change from a car to a bike. I like its back wheels design, so cool!
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Peugeot +

This Peugeot + three wheeled eco vehicle looks so cute! Designed by David Vargas for the Peugeot Design. It's a hybrid, between a scooter and a car. This combination allows using a smaller electric engine, saving energy. This saving generates less pollution and a major autonomy of the batteries. Besides the small size gives more agility into the traffic and makes easier to find parking. From the image info that it is a two seater car just like the Smera EV. Its three wheelers design, more like a scooter, but with two front wheels for extra stability.
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BMW GINA Light Visionary Model

BMW revealed the GINA Light Visionary Model sports car concept features with fabric body panels that bends into different shapes! Built on the discontinued BMW Z8 platform - complete with its 5.0-liter V8 - the GINA Light Visionary shares design. BMW's design chief, Chris Bangle, hopes the car is a showcase of what could be possible in 10 years' time, when drivers could choose a shape for their vehicle at the touch of a button. The GINA Light Visionary Model presents features such as a virtually seamless outer skin made of a textile fabric that stretches across a moveable substructure. Functions are only offered if and when they are actually required. It looks so cool!

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