What The Flux?! Car Scoops Design Award February 15, 2007
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Meet the winner of the Fourth Peugeot Design Competition: the Flux. I covered the start of this competition and some of the funky entrants and past winners not too long ago. The flux took top honours though, and gave the contest its youngest ever winner in 20-year old Mihai Panaitescu, a Romanian design student studying in Turin. The designer said:
A relatively small car (350cm long by 165cm wide), it runs on a slim hydrogen power plant hidden in the back along with the tank mounted under the front bonnet. The hood and side body panels are made from plastic, polyurethane for the seats and aluminium for the mechanical parts. The main components such as the chassis and head protection are metal. Made up of simple body work (basic intersected volumes) the car is easily produced and accessible to everyone but most of all, it's fun to drive. Adding to this, the car is also a gaming hub thanks to the integrated Xbox 360.
A full scale model of the car will be built in time for the Frankfurt Motor Show, the designer will get €6,000 and the car will feature in an upcoming game for the Xbox 360.
That’s good, because there’s no chance – unfortunately – that this will ever make it into production. More pics after the jump. -Martin Lynch
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"A relatively small car (3500cm long by 1650cm wide)"
Wow, 35 metres by 16.5 metres is small???
What is the POINT of prototype cars? You look, you think "that looks good", then you go out and can't tell the difference between 90% of the vehicles you see.