Legendary Concept Cars, 10 Cars That Either Made You Flip OR Flopped

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Audi Avus

Like opening a portal into a future where WWII German technology hadn’t been bombed into smithereens, the Audi Avus wowed the world when it was unveiled at the 1991 Tokyo Motor Show. Despite huge success in rally racing during the previous decade, Audi wasn’t a brand people thought capable of making such a slick supercar. After all, it was just coming out of its own unintended acceleration crisis. Fifteen years later, with the Best of What's New award-winning R8, Audi rose to the forefront of the German luxury brands, adapting the Avus’s styling archetype not only to the supercar, but to its full range of passenger cars too....

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t_bone - 4/18/2010 11:52:14 AM

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I think nearly all these concepts deserved more translation into real cars. What seems to happen too much is that the concept is dismissed, a "regular car" designed, and then some dumb elements added at the last minute to prove that the manufacturer is "daring"...examples would be the "blade" on the Audi R8 and the huge speedometer on the MINI.

theman440 - 4/19/2010 12:35:15 AM

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Most of the concept cars on this list are NOT "legendary"

Whelan - 4/20/2010 10:01:49 AM

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Ford GT90