2007 Nissan Cube Concept: Being Square Is Cool

The car appears like a perfect ice cube. A prototype of the car first appeared about six years ago at the Geneva Show, then more than a year and one half later at the Tokyo Auto Show.

The Cube concept is unusual because of its asymmetrical, or non-mirror image, exterior. Look at the placement of the rear windows (#7), for example. That's something we as Americans, or most people, are not use to seeing.

But the automaker plans to make this funky SUV a "world car", though, so there are plans to make the production version symmetrical.

It makes sense. Since people drive on different sides of the road worldwide, a symmetrical design makes it easy, manufacturing-wise, for example, possible to put the steering wheel on one side or the other....continued
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