
OMFGG
The designs for mini-e-commuter vehicles are just getting worse and worse! This one has both a stupid name AND a stupid darth vader-esque front!
Unbelievably bad.
Honda has whipped the dust covers of its vision of the small, urban coupé of tomorrow at the LA Auto Show. The Personal Neo Urban Transport - or P-NUT - seats three with the driver amidships and fits within the diminutive footprint of a micro-car. Honda P-NUT Honda's P-NUT: US notion of a micro-car Or rather within the …
I would get rid of a steering system altogether and just place WSAD keys in front and space for handbrake
Than anyone who's played a computer driving game will be able to transfer there skills to driving a car.
Pointless concept car though, I though they were supposed to push the boundary's not just show how little imagination the car companies had.
From what I can make out from the pictures, this thing has no crumple zone at all at the front. Probably would not even get certified for road use in most european countries for that reason. Why is it that, whenever designers get carte blanche for a concept design, the result is ugly, impractical (yoke steering? Pull the other one...) and completely un-roadworthy?
They should let a bunch of engineers start with a clean sheet and see what comes of that. Probably not a beauty, but it would be practical and a lot more affordable.
As others have said but it needs saying again - 80% of the vehicle road space from level with the driver is wasted - the spaces beside the driver, and all the front except their legs and the wheels. The A pillars now occupy the majority of the front view and the descending roof line affects the view to the front quarters. Should counter any US population explosion quite quickly.
In 1980 Ford Motor Co used to have those on the undergraduate induction do a half day design & marketing study for an imagined new vehicle codenamed the "Camel Project". This obviously led to loads of presentation and visual jokes involving humps, etc. The designs we came up with were ALL better than this and we'd only worked for a car firm for about 4 days!! Its hard to see how this could be less practical.