Rinspeed Oasis concept
For starters, the two-seat runabout is capable
of turning on its own axle, having an almost zero turning radius. The car looks like a motorized greenhouse, featuring a solar panel on the roof,
and see-through doors.
Rinspeed says it isn’t designed with a single
purpose in mind, like Google’s cars, and that Rinderknecht conceived and
equipped the vehicle with conceivable options so that it could work in a
society “willing to share its goods sensibly”. According to the Swiss designer,
the Oasis can be a commuting or shopping car, as well as a “micro delivery
vehicle” or a pizza taxi. It even features a code-protected, cooled or heated
drawer in the rear to store.
The interior comes with the same
ambiance of a modern-day family room. It even features two armchairs, a
sideboard, a TV – in case the virtual and augmented reality windscreen doesn’t
impress you – and a multifunctional steering wheel. The shared
pizza-delivering/shopping minibus also features a small green space for growing
flowers or – get this – radishes below the windscreen. It isn't clear if the
car can grow something else besides radishes, but let’s not get carried away,
even if the company says the Oasis is something new in “the automotive
wasteland of uniformity”.
We’ll find out more details about the Rinspeed Oasis
concept once it will debut at the 2017 CES in January.
