What cars will look like 13 years from
now? If you ask the Italians, this is what their answer would look like. Not
just any Italians, but some of the leaders in the field.
The Scilla concept is the product of a joint effort
between transportation design students at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED)
in Turin, together with Pininfarina and the editors of Quattroruote magazine.
Presented at the Geneva
Motor Show, the Scilla concept is about the size of a Ferrari 488, but sits
more than four inches lower to the ground. That streamlined shape is envisioned
to encapsulate two occupants in a 1+1 layout like an old fighter jet. Each
wheel is designed to house an individual electric motor, with semi-autonomous
capabilities.
The avant-garde concept raises more questions in our
minds than it answers, but we're glad someone's keeping an eye fixed on the
horizon – and not just coming up with a self-driving lounge on wheels as the
vision for the automobile of tomorrow.
