Concept cars are the ones designers create as a way of showcasing the newest up and coming technology. They’re not the kind of vehicles that get to go out onto the road or even that you will see at a dealership near you. What concept cars represent is an idea – a dream – that designers come up with. They’re not available for sale. They head straight to auto shows across the world. Perhaps you are asking why this happens. Why does an automaker spend years creating a concept car only to send it to an auto show and not to the nearest dealer?
The Concept of Concept Cars
Automakers spend years coming up with the concepts of these cars. They’re designed specifically to showcase features that are not yet on the market, that haven’t been designed by anyone else at this point in time. They’re then shown at auto shows for a very specific reason. Auto manufacturers spend a lot of money creating, building and producing new vehicles. They want to create one that won’t sell. So, they send it to an auto show as a way of finding out what the public thinks, what they like, what they don’t like, and what will sell. They then create cars that have some of these concepts while scrapping other concepts for never – or maybe for much later.
Concept Cars from the 20th Century
Concept cars are the vehicles of the future, and it’s always fun to go back in time and see what people thought today might look like yester-year. At the Atlanta High Museum of Art, there is a new exhibit that features the concept cars of the 20th century. These are the vehicles that manufacturers showed off at auto shows in the last 80 years. The exhibit will last from May 21 to September 7. It’s a type of garage of the concept cars that once were considered futuristic. It’s a great reason to stop by and see what crazy, out of this world ideas were once thought to be practical and futuristic.
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