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[EviLore]

Thoughts?

 

[JimiNutz]

Look like Halo's Covenant designed a sports car.

 

[GymWolf]

Tron 3 looking good.

 

[Ellery]

This looks so damn cool and unreal.

 

[eddie4]

What the turtle shell.....

 

[Tesseract]

looks aight

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Alexander Dang - exterior designer.

DANG!!

Car: "boswollox you are fined one credit for the misuse of the verbal morality statute..."

 

[HellforLeather]

interesting as a design exercise I guess, but I find cars like this much less interesting than concepts that could actually see production.

 

[Can't decide]

If I saw one of those drive by, my first thoughts would be "What an attention seeking wanker".

 

[xrnzaaas]

Mercedes cars are starting to look more and more like neon displays on wheels. Afaik they even recently started to add lighting to the front grille. Completely not my style.

 

[GeorgPrime]

I take it. EVerything is better than all those normal boring looking cars. xD

 

[TheMan]

These kinds of concept cars are rarely indicative of the final styling (maybe hints here and there) so it's a big fat nothing.

That said it's not appealing.

 

[TheContact]

this looks really cool but this is taking a concept to the extreme. it reminds me of this article about what people in the 60s thought cars would look like in the future except with a 2020 mindset. Not really a fan of the wheels or the "scales" on the back, but I am a sucker for concept cars. I'd never want transparent doors either.

 

[Sakura]

It doesn't seem like it would be very practical to actually drive that thing through traffic.

 

[Robot Carnival]

I can dig it. looks pretty cool and it's a concept car anyway so not like we'll be seeing something like that actually on the road. some of the techs in this car can actually be use in production vehicles so that's cool. not too sure about the whole quills thing in the back thou. what function do they serve? or is it purely to make it look "organic"? the way it can move diagonally forward is pretty cool too.

 

[eddie4]

say goodbye to road head.

 

[Cunth]

I hate it like poison

 

[Celcius]

Looks amazing

 

[01011001]

I love futuristic designs like this, absolutely amazing!

 

[DESTROYA]

Looks amazingly comfortable but really hate the idea of self driving cars.

 

[Kenpachii]

Looks like a toy ugly as shit.

 

[Rival]

#

 

[NeededSleep]

Ehhhh, i love futuristic designs, but nah. Unless this was a flying car on Mars.

 

[frostyxc]

That is some grade-A fug.

 

[Haint]

If they replaced the glass bubble doors, RGB wheel tumors, and Hive rear windshield with traditional parts, it'd probably be a slick looking sports car.

 

[cryptoadam]

A big waste and vanity project. The projecting on the hands is stupid AF.

 

[HUELEN10]

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Great stuff by Mercedes.

Just get rid of the glass doors. I don't want people seeing me scratching my nutsack while driving on the Autobahn.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

I just love it when people speak english with that german accent like that woman does.

 

[Neolombax]

From the look and concept, it is cool what they've done. I dont think its practical though.

 

[notseqi]

hate the balloon-y wheels/tires, some simple and angular rims would do the car a world of good

 

[Compsiox]

So do companies use these projects as tax write offs?

 

[notseqi]

So do companies use these projects as tax write offs?

It can be an internal competition for budding designers, parts of a master thesis (probably several in which a group of fresh designers collaborates on a project), pushing PR for Mercedes as they have to output at a certain frequency, prestige etc

Seeing a car this far in past the clay model stage is impressive though.

 

[UnNamed]

This car is more interesting and feasible, though

 

[EverydayBeast]

You gotta respect their electric decision.

 

[J-Roderton]

Some Tron shit. I dig it.

 

[jonnyp]

Looks stupid.

 

[deafmedal]

With how shitty many car’s UIs are they better nail that shit. Imagine this thing glitching out on you... Swedish Black Metal blaring while a child plays in a sunflower patch on the display with the various lights spazzing out as your girl cums all over the ridiculously expensive seat from your heartbeat pulsating her just so as it crab walks from lane to lane in a zigzag pattern across 5 lanes of traffic completely out of your control while the pleasant lady voice tells you “device not supported” over and over again...

On second thought, sign me up!

Cool car. What’s up with the blatant James Cameron’s Avatar theming though?

 

[teezzy]

Wow, imagine driving THAT to Walgreen's!!!

 

[CrysisFreak]

The tech is insane.

 

[teezzy]

I don't think I'd want that much attention on me while I'm on the road.

Am I the only one these days who just wants to blend in?

 

[Fbh]

Looks cool.

I'd love to see more car makers embrace these futuristic designs.
Current cars are boring. Everyone just does the same stuff, take the logos away and it's often hard to differentiate one brand from the other.

 

[OnThePathToWisdom]

With how shitty many car’s UIs are they better nail that shit. Imagine this thing glitching out on you... Swedish Black Metal blaring while a child plays in a sunflower patch on the display with the various lights spazzing out as your girl cums all over the ridiculously expensive seat from your heartbeat pulsating her just so as it crab walks from lane to lane in a zigzag pattern across 5 lanes of traffic completely out of your control while the pleasant lady voice tells you “device not supported” over and over again...

On second thought, sign me up!

Cool car. What’s up with the blatant James Cameron’s Avatar theming though?

"The name of the groundbreaking concept vehicle stands not only for the close collaboration in developing the show car together with the AVATAR team but also for ADVANCED VEHICLE TRANSFORMATION. This concept vehicle embodies the vision of Mercedes-Benz designers, engineers and trend researchers for mobility in the distant future."

It's the official James Cameron's AVATAR™ car.