Small Motor Design

A concept vehicle or show vehicle is a car prototype made to showcase a concept, new styling, technology and more. They are often shown at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not have a chance of being produced.

Phantom Corsair

Phantom CorsairThe Phantom Corsair is a vehicle prototype from 1938. It's a six-passenger coupe that was designed by Rust Heinz, an affiliate of the H. J. Heinz family, and Pasadenas Maurice Schwartz, California based Bohman & Schwartz Coachbuilding Company. The design was an exit from recent auto design and it probably did away with many features, common at the time, that were finally deserted by main line designers.

Production

Heinz intended to put the Phantom Corsair, which cost roughly $24,000 to produce in 1938 (roughly $300,000 in 2005 greenbacks) into limited production at a projected selling cost of $12,500. Heinz's death, at once after the auto was finished, finished those plans.
The utterly unique 1938 Phantom Corsair now lives in the nation's vehicle Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nevada. The complete story of this automobile, as well as studio pictures, appears in the October 2006 version of Classic and Sports Vehicle mag.

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Volvo YCC

Volvo YccThe Volvo YCC was an idea automobile presented in 2004 with the stated target of meeting the particular desires of female drivers.
To do so, Volvo assembled a design team completely made of girls, a little time in the autumn of 2001. It was regarded as a major exercise in ergonomics from the point of view of a female driver.

People who were concerned in the many stages of the project were: Maria Widell Christiansen, Eva-Lisa Andersson, Elna Holmberg, Maria Uggla, Camilla Palmertz, Cynthia Charwick, Anna Rosn, Lena Ekelund and Tatiana Butovitsch Temm. On the outside the auto looked, at first impression, like a softly futuristic 4 seat coupe. On closer inspection one could see that there wasn't any hood, that is, no access panel allowing access to the auto's engine.

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Ford Nucleon

Ford NucleonFord has started many extraordinary discoveries and changes in the car industry. One being the introduction of Ford Nucleon. The second is a nuclear-powered idea auto revealed by Ford Motor Company in the year 1958. Related auto draws power from a tiny nuclear reactor found within the trunk. The small version of which can be viewed at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, MI.

The most impressive project of Ford is the Nucleon. It was called automobile-of-the-future due to its excellent qualities and unique design features. It's a silent auto with swish hi-tech look, 0 dangerous emissions, and awesome fuel mileage. The most bizarre about this automobile is that it's got a pint-size atomic fission reactor in its trunk. Nucleon has a power capsule found at the rear portion between the twin booms. The capsule holds the radioactive core that controls power by recognizing the performance needs as well as the distance went by the auto.

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