Ultra futuristic Lexus Nuaero concept

um...that looks like it hurt when someone passed it!

— Peyton18 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 12:35:06 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Interesting...

Very 'forward thinking', yet it still exudes a degree of luxury that's relevant today, all while being shockingly light weight/efficient.

— DaHarder (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 12:36:28 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Fancy concept but not practical in real life -- the side lower sections are far too low to the ground to avoid serious damage on our deteriorating roads.

— EnnNorak (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 5:07:26 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

In a few years cars will look like this because Lexus is the trendsetter in car design? PLEASE!

Michael, you're a troll. Just shut up and go join another site to rant on about how you would love to kiss the asses of Toyota's executives.

There's nothing revolutionary about your Camry. It will always be just a Camry. Get over it. It's no Lexus either.

— Agent63 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/19/2008 3:09:01 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Not from Lexus Michael Taylor, from a design student in Sweden that went to the Royal Academy of Art in London, this was one of his projects. It is a students vision of Lexus, not a design from Lexus....

— atomicbri (View Profile)

Posted on 8/19/2008 5:15:33 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

any piece of shit that has a half toyota symbol on the hood is beautiful. right MT?

You should be banned by Lexus for thinking that was their design!

You don't even do any research before you open your trap!

— vman1013 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/19/2008 9:57:42 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

It looks like it's been in an accident.

— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 12:46:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

Hmmm, are you sure this isn't a new Ipod docking station?

— theoptimisticpessimist (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 12:49:39 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

@EL34

And you was in it.

— STJ88 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 12:51:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

Well Homer, as near as I can tell there are manifold reasons.

First, pedestrian safety laws interfere with the frontal configuration of cars.

Second, there are some aesthetic reasons. The most aerodynamic shape in terms of the coefficient of drag is a tear shape. This shouldn't surprise anyone if they think about it; when rain falls through the atmosphere because it is a fluid, it acquires a shape that minimizes the drag forces. Now, the theoretical minimum coefficient of drag (Cd=0.15) shape is not a symmetrical tear the reasons for which have to do with ground effects, but it is still described in the literature as tear-shaped.

Third, this is just my speculation, but there are packaging problems with the shape- fitting everything it that shape is a little problematic.

— cdoke (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 1:39:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

I tried to find the illustration online, but to no avail. However, the prius concept, hybid X, or whatever it was that they called it is similar in profile to the theoretical minimum Cd shape.

http://www.thetorquereport.com/hybrid_x_concept_side-thumb.jpg

— cdoke (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 1:53:43 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Well since nobody else said it I will, the reason that some vehicles are brick shaped is that they need to be. Also aerodynamics plays a VERY unimportant role in city driving. At higher speeds, think highway speeds, it does become more of a factor but not around the city.

And Homer, most of the energy loss from burnt fuel is due to thermal losses not the mechanical forces of aerodynamics.

— 91z4me (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 3:27:08 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

TIE Fighter!

with such futuristic designs you'd think Lexus had a time machine :)

— sector (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 1:11:19 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

Really futuristic, but what IS that? The newest prototype for a trash can?

— Star (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 2:09:11 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -6   

In other news, the Dancia Sanderos is availible in left hand drive market!

— Carboy (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 2:50:20 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

Looks like a Bat

— silver1 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 3:29:01 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Shocking this came from Lexus.

— 0to60 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 3:45:53 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

I'm laughing so hard that I think a little pee just came out!

naaannnaaaannnaaaannaaaaannaaa... BATMAN!
(remember from the original TV show theme song?)

— mscottc1 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 8:20:27 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

It's actually an interesting solution to the aerodynamic "problem" of wheels. I expect that once drive axles are irrelevant at least some elements of this will be used on real cars.

— t_bone (View Profile)

Posted on 8/18/2008 8:36:03 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

What is up with lexus and 'could have been' concepts? LFA? the vehicle in minority report? meanwhile, audi had the concept in I.Robot or something like that. that concept ended up being the R8.

— Gennissen (View Profile)

Posted on 8/19/2008 3:46:06 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

I don't even know what to say. Toyota?

— 1BadMan (View Profile)

Posted on 8/19/2008 1:01:49 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Stop watching Minority Report, Lexus. Youre updating a movie car that looks nothing like a Lexus.

— Alec (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 6:23:31 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0