While it's a stretch to imagine that cars will look
fundamentally different to what they do now in just 20 years time, some artists
still do a great job at illustrating a fully autonomous and electric
future in style.
This is the Vision Grand Tourer, a hypothetical
BMW-badged performance and luxury concept that would be capable of traveling at
high speeds and covering long distances the "zero emissions way".
Artist Glorin Tsiourea says that this car's cabin features four distinctive
modes: Work, Fun, Resting and Traveling & Sighting mode. That large canopy
should definitely work great with each mode.
If this was a real BMW concept, we'd
imagine it would have been called the Gran Tourer, not Grand, since that's how BMW
seems to prefer things. Anyway, the styling of the car is certainly futuristic
enough. Again, perhaps too futuristic for the year 2040 (real world progress
doesn't move that fast), but at least it's got some recognizable BMW design
traits we can look at.
For example, the grille is a stretched out version
of what we saw on the i Vision Dynamics concept recently, while the taillights
look like a more modern interpretation of those found on both the 8-Series
Concept as well as the Concept Z4. We also like how there's a BMW badge where
the C-pillar would normally be on a real car - kind of how it is on the
upcoming X2.
