Evolution of Japanese Concept Cars

10 comments to Evolution of Japanese Concept Cars

• Ray Martin

  October 3, 2010 at 1:46 am · Reply

  Great stuff, all of which makes me ask the question – why the hell does nearly every car on the road today look like it was made out of Lego?

• Thomas Woolley

  October 5, 2010 at 4:23 pm · Reply

  Simple answer-it all started with Ralph Nader and then the Health & Safety police took over.

• Angel

  June 2, 2011 at 3:44 pm · Reply

  I love the fit and finish and the exquisite chrome-work on the Nissans and Toyotas of the 1970s!

• John T Bookman

  June 2, 2011 at 7:26 pm · Reply

  @Thomas: blame Nader for making driving safer

• qka

  July 7, 2011 at 4:03 pm · Reply

  @ Ray Martin

  A lot of these concepts remind me of something else. Some of these look like Corvettes, and a few look like the current Detroit reincarnations of classic late 60s – early 70s muscle cars. There are also some Jaguar clones in this mix.

  I guess it’s true that there’s nothing new under the sun.

• Alan Bickerstaff

  January 16, 2012 at 1:12 pm · Reply

  That first one is the concept Lexus that was used in the film “Minority Report”

• bangalor

  January 22, 2012 at 11:20 pm · Reply

  Glad most of them stayed concept cars, because most of them were ugly!

• Road Rage

  March 6, 2012 at 5:22 pm · Reply

  Funny how the designs either look utterly ridiculous or are blatant copies of western studies – like the “Acura Advanced Sports Car” which design is shamelessly stolen from BMW’s Zeppelin study. Or Daleks, as with the Honda Fuja-Yo.

• Archie

  March 11, 2012 at 4:11 am · Reply

  The Toyota EXIII and Nissan NX 21 are excellent.

• Paul Boos

  April 24, 2012 at 9:00 pm · Reply

  There are some seriously cool car design concepts here… i think my fave may be the 1966 Toyota Concept.