Looks like Honda actually built something that looks somewhat similar. It's real and available for sale: <a href="https://www.honda.co.uk/cars/new/honda-e/overview.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.honda.co.uk/cars/new/honda-e/overview.html</a>
I remember really wanting this at the time.
Amazing how jarring the design of the radio is in comparison to the rest of the interior.
Also, interesting how they didn't think to design their own entertainment system because... cars had third party entertainment systems that's just the way it was!
This is what I would expect to find in the dictionary under the words "nifty", "spiffy" and "cute".<p>I would totally buy one (cuz I would also expect it to cost under $15k)
The seat hinges remind me of those early Microsoft Surface multilink hinges, although on second look are clearly different.<p>The drawer trunk might be an improved solution to the trunk challenge of the Kammback form [1], which often becomes a hatchback but sometimes results in a smallish trunk hatch like the Audi A7. It probably is not as crashworthy insofar as packaging squish-space though.<p>A big miss is the steering wheel. Reaching through the wheel to the horn seems difficult. It's also been done before on various Citroens. I would have liked to see something more interesting using a mechanism like a Sbarro centerless wheel. [2, 3]<p><i>Enter the hinge. Or, as Microsoft dubbed it, the dynamic fulcrum hinge. The connective tissue between the Surface Book’s base and display is an isopod-like piece of aluminum that flexes back and forth thanks to four rotational points. It’s “almost like a carpet that rolls out,” Groene says.</i> [0]<p>0. <a href="https://www.wired.com/2015/10/story-behind-surface-books-crazy-new-hinge/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.wired.com/2015/10/story-behind-surface-books-cra...</a><p>1. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Kammback" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Kammback</a><p>2. <a href="http://sbarro.phcalvet.fr/technique/roue_orbitale/roue_orbitalegb.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://sbarro.phcalvet.fr/technique/roue_orbitale/roue_orbit...</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Centreless_wheel" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Centreless_wheel</a><p>3. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_(automobile)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbarro_(automobile)</a>
Reminds me of the Nissan Pivo EV concept from 2005: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Pivo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Pivo</a>
It has real 1960 Falcon feels.<p>If it looks like a toy car, it is, it'd be virtually impossible to fit that body onto a modern engineering package.
This image gallery desperately needs a one-line addition of something like<p><pre><code> > imageElement.addEventListener('click', stopAutoScroll);
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I get autoscrolling a gallery of images, but if I click on one or click on some buttons, please stop! I want to look at one specific image for longer than 3 seconds! If I go back manually to look at one, don't override me and go forward again 3 seconds later. I went back for a reason.<p>I see some irony in a designer who has a webpage that hasn't fully thought out the UX. Maybe irony isn't the right word since it's pretty par for the course.
> The floor, which remains completely flat due to the front-wheel-drive technology, ...<p>What about the exhaust? I always assumed that's what the bump in the back-seat floor of all my FWD cars was for.
Interesting! They had the foresight to understand that cars would become uglier, but even they couldn't imagine the idiocy which is non-standard-formfactor entertainment systems.