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Mitsubishi Evolution 25... (?) The future of rally cars
http://gizmodo.com/5055672/mitsubish...-for-year-2025
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In the year 2025, a scant 17 years from now, all cars will be electric. But according to Mitsubishi's entry into the LA Auto Show's latest design challenge, some will even tear up the Salt Flats, looking like bionic insects with the cruelest of intentions. Each wheel of the proposed MMR25 Rally Racer gets eight little wheels for omnidirectional movement, and there's no such thing as windshields in the future, replaced—naturally—by Star Trek tech. Here's the run down, plus the sickest rendering of a non-existent product I have ever seen.
Yes, the MMR25 will have nine motors in each wheel, one to spin the main structure and eight more to control smaller embedded wheels for traction while deftly maneuvering along the highway, maybe even driving sideways. Special "oblique aerodynamics" mean that the sideways driving won't be penalized by wind resistance, either.
There's no glass: It's too damn heavy, and you won't need it, what with visual information coming in via a crazy camera array that feeds a 360-degree panoramic screen that surrounds your "pod."
It's plenty power efficient, too, getting 1,000 miles per charge out of lightweight composite-nano-fiber-jiggied lithium-based batteries. (Now word on explodeyness, but presumably that's solved too.)
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Sep 27, 2008, 01:22 AM
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haha that thing is so cool 
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Sep 27, 2008, 01:34 AM
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I'm going to trade my IX in for it. I think by that time ill have enough fun with it. LOL
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Sep 27, 2008, 08:52 PM
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I'd hate to have to foot the bill when it's time for some new rubber though lol
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Sep 27, 2008, 08:59 PM
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Damn that thing looks cool but i doubt that in 2025 all cars will be electric. I think we will be powered by a few different things like hydrogen, natural gas, ethanol and whatnot but i think gas cars will live for a long time
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Sep 28, 2008, 08:34 AM
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EVo XXVIII ....
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Sep 28, 2008, 08:40 AM
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Cool.
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Sep 28, 2008, 08:58 AM
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No windshield? That would seem quite weird even though you have all the cameras. Got to have peripheral viewing for the sake of driving.
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Sep 28, 2008, 09:01 AM
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lol damn concepts
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Sep 28, 2008, 10:48 AM
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Looks extreme.
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Sep 28, 2008, 10:49 AM
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What the hell is that Transformers II.
 
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Sep 28, 2008, 11:16 AM
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I would hate to run into that in a dark alley... 
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Sep 28, 2008, 11:19 AM
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No windshield? That would seem quite weird even though you have all the cameras. Got to have peripheral viewing for the sake of driving.
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I'm pretty sure it's going to have cameras to give you a view that encompasses your entire field of vision and also a screen to view your rear. I think this idea is going to be used for future jet fighters for increased protection.
I would get one of these if it ever becomes real.
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Sep 28, 2008, 11:23 AM
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Looks like a dune buggy really, but cool nonetheless.
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