Awesome Concept Cars

Hi everyone, I'm a new writer here at Adbuzeedo. I love all things design (like most of you reading this) and this is my first posting and I hope you enjoy it.

I've seen many concept cars in my lifetime, whether on the web or at a car show, but I've never seen anything like these before. These concepts come from the Royal College of Art (I'm guessing that's in the UK somewhere). They're incredible! But of course, like all concept cars, I'll probably never see them on the streets...ever. Oh well, they're still cool to daydream about.

Vehicle design at the Royal College of Art turns 40 next year. The postgraduate course, with a global reputation for nurturing up-and-coming car designers, boasts an alumni that reads like the who’s who of the car design world. It includes highly influential figures like Peter Horbury who turned Volvo around, and the maverick designer of Ford of Europe, Martin Smith, as well as Jaguar design chief, Ian Callum. Other graduates include the original Audi TT designer and current head of Kia design, Peter Schreyer and Aston Martin’s design director Marek Reichman. This year’s fourteen graduates kept the flag flying. Competing for the 2008 Pilkington Automotive Vehicle Design award, their projects ranged from a fresh take on eco-design to finding new ways of expressing personalisation. A couple of the students even challenged the status quo by designing boats for an imaginary future destroyed by global warming.


Enigma concept by Paul Howse


Winner: Airflow concept by Pierre Sabas


Concept car by Ilaria Sacco


omega concept by Joonas Vartola

This weird wavy blue one below is actually the concept for the interior of a car. It's supposed to be flexible and allow for a much more comfortable ride as it conforms to your body. I just came back from a long car ride this weekend and because I'm tall (6' 4" or 1.9 meters) I'm always uncomfortable.


Commended: Noah concept by Jung Hoon Rhee


Commended: Phoenix concept by Sergio Loureiro Da Silva


Winner: Nuaero concept by Jon Radbrink


Nereus concept by Ceri Yorath

I found this on design boom, who got it from Hi-Res,
who originally got it from Wallpaper
(Oh the internet is such an incestuous place. lol)

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all very nice by design. but not very practical. very 2028. i love the red split concept.

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Anonymous (not verified) 08/07/2008

hey your design look cool, i would like to know how you design it.
so if you have any video that had you designing the car can you give me so i can watch how you design it, i wont copy because i only grade 11 and i like to a a architecture and i would like to get better at my graphic,because my mark at school only a B, so if you have a video can you sent me please thanks!!~

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kimchi (not verified) 08/03/2008

Nice, and look very cool indeed.

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Dan (not verified) 07/28/2008

The second car is more real than others that look like sport cars and ain't suitable for most of us. The rest of them are just a play of shapes and concepts. Total crap :(

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SmartyCZ (not verified) 07/22/2008

I like the Airflow concept very stylish and nice.
I agree Phil, the last one looks like the sword from Halo.

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3G iPhone (not verified) 07/18/2008

Hi. Nice post. Like the concepts.
Would be helpfull, if u make the pics clickable next time.

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Jurij (not verified) 07/18/2008

Great skills indeed !

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Zany (not verified) 07/17/2008

How is the blue net car suppose to work?

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seo (not verified) 07/17/2008

nevedomaya ebanaya huinya rial'ni !!11

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REF13X (not verified) 07/17/2008

Nice design studies. I'm partial to "Nuaero" (I admittedly have a soft-spot for black "slabs").

For those questioning engine space, I recommend re-reading Corey's comment above, as well as having a peek at the following (real-world) link for what I believe to be the sort of tech these forward-thinking designers are looking toward: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/automobiles/autospecial/09NUG1-SEQUEL....

Cheers.

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numlok™ (not verified) 07/17/2008

Hmm, to those wondering why they had no engine space - consider the phrase from above "...projects ranged from a fresh take on eco-design." Eco-design being the keyword. The cars are probably meant to be electric. Look at all the new electric cars like Toyota's RIN and Nissan's Pivo. Ugly cars yes, but, they also have no engine space, and they are very real.

Anyway, I think the Enigma concept is aesthetically coolest.

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Corey (not verified) 07/17/2008

please.. maybe 3 are cool, the rest, shit.

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Anonymous (not verified) 07/17/2008

In wheel motors ppl. You don't need an engine when the wheel drives itself

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Anonymous (not verified) 07/16/2008

so... when did we start designing cars without places for engines? Sure, some of them have them, but what about the squiggly green one? or the one at top?

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Anonymous (not verified) 07/16/2008

these cars are pretty, but what would really be amazing is if someone who actually new and appreciated cars would do this. Art is art; cars are cars. This is art and not a car. I would just for once love to see a concept car that didn't look like it was rejected from the transformers movie. Bottom line: pretty art, ugly ass cars

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Anonymous (not verified) 07/16/2008

wow nice designs.

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Anonymous (not verified) 07/16/2008

Wow, I'll take one of those Phoenix projects! NICE!

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John Thoams (not verified) 07/16/2008

very sick stuff, and phil your totally right about the halo comment haha

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Pbob (not verified) 07/16/2008

nice 1 Jon Radbrink

andero 07/16/2008

Last one looks like the sword from halo ^.^

Phil 07/16/2008

That's really cool, the Noah one was done using the blend tool in illustrator, im pretty sure about that :) ...

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