If you are a sports car fanatic, chances are that you had heard about this very famous and award winning sports car design – The Audi Shark. This sports car concept was designed by Kazim Doku and had just won the top price in the recently concluded 2008 Desire Design Competition in Italy by the Domus Academy. Are you ready for the future? The Audi Shark is a flying vehicle. A two-seater flying car was inspired by the designs of the motorcycle and the airplane combined. With sleek shark-look, the lights are made of transparent tubes, sporty seats and cockpit-like interior design.
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To fulfill dreams into reality is what legends are made of and one such designer being Forrest North. His desire to make light weight electric motorcycle drove him and his team to deliver a stunning design and all this happened after successfully designing a car on the same lines. This sports model is powered by a lithium ion battery which is lighter in weight but does not compromise on the performance. With its stunning looks, Mission One surely seems to be in the reckoning for the big league, and with an ability to run 150 miles in a single charge, it definitely will go places!
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The new Phoenix concept designed by Sergio Loureiro, a Royal College of Art student in London, is some piece of work. This aerodynamic beauty is a sports car which runs on electricity with the overall concept being of reducing energy consumption. This is achieved as the vehicle adopts the alternate energy regeneration system inspired by technology used in dance floors. Here car has a central kinetic axis which with the movement of the vehicle generates power. The car is a complete beauty not just design wise but in motion as it puts to use the kinetic laws of physics for its basic functioning. So, one can say that it’s one piece of art.
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The new car concept design by Iman Maghsoudi for Local Motors Competition is named as iBite and as the name suggests it sure bites some metal. The overall design as per the designers is nothing but improvising on the Toyota Prius Hybrid platform as the base and just developing the same along with other beauties thus resulting in a designer marvel. After using that as the base platform, add to it the design elements of Lotus 7 and then on top of it placing two surfing boards as the part of its body panel and voila, one can see that the car is ready to fly!
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As they say catch them young and watch them grow! The C9-S Berlinetta by Automoblox seems like going on this famous line, if one looks at the line up of sports car based toys that has been designed. The models are exact replica of the cars that one sees on the road and with it being life size. It’s as if all the dreams for the kids will come true. The toy maker has given options with variants just like the regular automakers. This proves the fact that in this competitive toy market, making toys is no more a kiddie stuff! [Buy it here]
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