Next Concept Cars

Yes, this is an armored car but it provides an interior full of luxury. Hard to believe, I know! It comes from Canada, runs with biofuel and costs $300.000.

Hummer? What hummer!? That car which consumes a lot of fuel and is uncomfortable? No. The ones from Conquestcars had something different in their mind, they made a very comfortable car ready for anything, and when I say anything I mean it! For the beginning will only be built 100 cars like this.

The car is built manually, a single model requiring 1500 hours for being finished. Conquest VX Knight is inspired after the Gurcka military cars, and is based on a modified Ford super-duty chassis as to meet the … military requirements.

Bullets and grenades aren’t a problem for this car, having a body made of strength steel, spoilers made of fiber glass and 64 mm thick bullet-proof windows. It weights 4,5 tons and the special run-flat Michey Thompson tires won’t make any problems to the car if perforated.

What about the luxury, you may ask. Well, in the interior you will find Andrew Muirhead leather, Wilton Wool carpets, electrically adjustable armchairs and multiple facilities like the Apline multimedia system, bluetooth and TV monitors for all seats, “Night Vision” system and even a Playstation 3 system. What could you wish more?

Its 400 HP V10 engine of 6.8 liters is designed to work with E85 bioethanol.

Here’s a new concept that has been presented Detroit, a Cadillac concept made by Loren Kulesus.

These skteches represent a pretty strange vehicle of the future, the term “Thorium” (derived from thor, a chemical element) representing the fuel this concept eats. Thor is part of the uranium family or plutonium, so this means the designer wants to offer us … the first atomic car in the world! Regarding it’s aspect, the car looks really good but I’m not that sure I’ll be alive when it will be produced in series.

KTM has released few photos with a set of new concepts which will definitely increase your adrenaline level. These were designed by the students from FH Joanneum University in collaboration with the ones from KTM.

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Fisker will present at the Detroit Auto Show 2009 a new concept, this time being a cabriolet or a coupe derived from Fisker Karma.

The new concept named Fisker Sunset, will have the same propulsion system like Fisker Karma, with two electric engines. We are talking about 408 HP, the Lithium-Ion batteries provide an autonomy of 50 miles. The Q-Drive system, developed in collaboration with Quantum Technologies, will be the first plug-in hybrid system which allows the batteries to be charged from a power line.

The big son of David Beckham drives probably the most expensive toy on 4 wheels, a fully functional Porsche which has a price of around $75000.

This toy is more expensive than most cars running on streets today. The mini Porsche was manually made by  Porsche engineers and it is propelled by a real engine, unfortunately just diesel, so it can not be considered a perfect replica. However, this model has all the finest details found on the real one (Porsche 550) from design curves to its interior. The only difference is that the mini replica has only one place and costs ten time less.

But I still think that spending $75000 for a toy is too much.

Some Chinese guys did it again, they managed to copy an European model, Fiat Multipla. They even paraphrased its name, resulting Zotye Multiplan.

We might tend to think that Zotye is Fiat’s official partner in China, but they are actually only a “client”, which does not prevent them to make models in the “copy-paste” manner. A very convincing model is Zotye Multiplan, being replicated in the smallest details.

There is available only one motorization, a 1.6 liter engine. We aren’t really sure who manufactured it, but I think there wouldn’t be a surprise if they are actually using a Fiat engine.