A three-quarter photo of the car, but it's beige now
A top-down photo of the car, showing it only has three seats with the steering wheel in front of the middle seat
A photo of the back of the car, where is has Karin written between the taillights
A photo of the interior, where the all the console buttons are clustered on the frame around the steering wheel and the steering wheel is shaped like a pie with and missing piece on the bottom
The another photo of the interior but from a front facing angle where you can see the instrument cluster looks like a crt television screen
A concept car from 1980, design by Trevor Fiore

Looks kinda undrivable tbh

  • absquatulate@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Man, I remember seeing this as a kid in an 1982(1980?) edition of the german AutoKatalog and it friggin blew my mind. It felt so out of this world.

  • Brett@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    as a nerd who dabbled with photography in the past the diagonal shot of the interior is just sooooo good. damn

    the lighting is near perfect.

  • egrets@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Absolutely love it. I mean, I don’t really like the aesthetics all that much, and I can see several impractical things about the grain, but I love the reimagination of what a car should look like.

    There are plenty of practical reasons why most modern cars follow the same morphology, and any concept that deviates from that quite rightly has some hard questions to answer about safety, but it’s not boring, and that earns a lot of goodwill in my book.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      That view was from the back seat, not the driver’s seat. I think it’s a rear view camera but cameras were huge back then.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      2 days ago

      Are you talking about the last photo? I’m pretty sure that’s taken from outside the car, through the rear window (or at least where it would be). You can see the backs of the three seats at the bottom. The thing that is obstructing the centre of the view is just close to the camera. If you look at the rear view photo which shows the tail lights, you can see a much better view through the front windscreen

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      The McLaren F1 supercar has three seats with the driver in the middle. I couldn’t see the reason on the wiki page but do recall seeing a short documentary on it many years ago that did mention why. I just can’t recall it unfortunately.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      2 days ago

      Some benefits for exports too, I suppose. No need to build an RHD version for Britain, Japan, and the others that drive on the left

      • Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Also noticing the control panel that’s on the floor, for some reason. Not to mention a lack of any sort of seatbelts. I know concept cars are not really meant to ever go to production but this one seems particularly silly.

        • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          It looks like it might be in front of the left side seat, not on the floor, but the perspective is weird.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Sometimes you’ve got to just put questionable aesthetics above function until the only possible use for it is to awkwardly demonstrate an ethos of individualism based solely on exorbitant privilege.