From all times car manufacturers are trying to design the cars of the future. If we are talking about cars that stared in movies like Batman, Agent 007 we can see that the companies produced some prototypes that are featured with a special and distinguish design, with powerful motors and a lot of astonishing characteristics.
The main question is, in what kind of measures someone can produce a car thought for 2035? How can they predict what kind of motor will be using, what kinds of features and especially, what will be the top speed of one of this future cars?
The Audi manufacturer imagined how can all this will be.
Audi made a prototype that is supposed to be used in the future, based on the story of the movie I Robot, a car that can be drove in the year 2035.
For the first time, the manufacturer Audi collaborated with the I Robot movie director Alex Proyas on this project. They made a car that contains of course, first of all, the emblem of Audi company, the 4 rings and the traditional design of all Audi cars.
The special parts that may be said that comes from the future thinking are the wheels transformed in spheres and the butterfly doors.
We may say that the company has not thought yet about what kind of engine the car will use, what kind of speed and other elements of technology, the car is made more for it`s sequential appearance in that movie and not for it`s ability of his technical characteristics. For all that we may agree that the concept of future car remains just an idea, because nobody can actually know what kind of engine can be conceived for all the new fuels that our scientist are now just in the phase of experimenting.
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Gumpert Apollo Super Car
The Apollo super car was produced in Germany by Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH priced at 198000 euros.The super car is powered by a 4.2L V8 engine making 650 horsepower.It`s a two seat and two door car,mid engined and a 6 speed manual transmission.The max speed of the car is 229 mp/h and reach in 2,9 seconds 60 mp/h.
Dodge Tomahawk Concept 2003
This super motorcycle was produced by Dodge in 2003 and shown at the Auto Show in Detroit.It`s a hight speed motorcycle with tow frond wheels and rear wheels.the 8,3 V10 engine is form Viper and engages 500 horsepower.In 2005 10 versions of Dodge Tomahawk were sold at the price of $550.000.The motorcycle can reach a speed of 100 km/h in just 2,5 seconds and it has a top speed of 600 km/h.
2005 Pagani Zonda F
First appeared at Geneva at a Auto Show in 2005 the all carbon fiber super car can reach 100 km/h in just 3.0 seconds. With power of 443 kW/594 hp, and a top speed that passes 360 km/h, Zonda F makes Pagani manufacturer to be at the level of another independent of famous super cars manufactures like Porsche, Lamborghini or Ferrari.
A car made by combining the sensibility of Juan Manuel Fangio, a F1 world champion 5 time in a row, about all that is related with technicality and the advance technology of Pagani, has a lot to offer, from the power to weight ratio of 384 W/kg, the six-speed manual transmission, the aerodynamic vents all around, not at least the carbon/ceramic brakes that allows the Zonda F to be on the top list of the cars with spectacular braking from 300 km/h to 0 km/h.
The V12 engine that is a lot more cooler because of the design of the car, larger in front, 7.3 liter Mercedes-Benz engine can reach now 620 bhp and gives almost 561 pound-feet of torque peaking at 4000 rpm. It has a length of 174.6 inch, a width of 80.9 inch and a height just about 44.9 inch.
Even if it`s said to be a priceless super car, it will be on the market in 2008 at a base price of 500 000 $.
Maserati Mc12 Sport Car
Maserati Mc12, a road car after the Maserati company produced the FIA GT Championship racing variant can not call it self anything else then a super car. The specialists say that it`s not more than a copy of Enzo Ferrari but taller, longer and wider.
Designed by famous car producers like Giorgetto Giugiaro and Frank Stephenson., the idea for this super car was born even from the time that Ferrari owned Maserati company. They wanted a race car that could match the standards to compete in FIA GT.
With a first name like MCC (Maserati Corse Competizione), the car couldn’t be anything else but a race car.
With a design of the V12 engine that allows equally the distribution of weight, the two door coupe has a luxurious interior made of a mix of gel dressed up in carbon fiber, another very expensive silver material named Brightex, and also the blue leather that gives the wonder car a special look.
The exterior it isn’t going to look down to the interior. The body made of carbon fiber it’s design to help the car achieve the maximum down force in all kinds of roads. Longer and wider then a Hummer, Maserati Mc12 comes only in two colours: white and blue, being dedicated to the America Camoradi racing team of the 1960s.
The V12 Ferrari engine has 232 kilogram, 6 litre (5998 cc) that makes the car touch a maximum torque of 652 Nm (481 lbf-ft) at 5500 rpm and a maximum power of 463 kw (621 bhp) at 7500 rpm. This super car can reach 100 km/h in just 3.8s and 200 km/h in 9.9s and has a maximum speed of 330 km/h.
Even if some people can say that it has a couple of disability like no radio or sound system and it can be a little harder to park because of it’s large size, the comfortability and the luxury of the interior combine with the look and the feeling of the car speeding on any kinds of roads can really deserve the high price of 600.000 euro.