The Car of Tomorrow, Yesterday

[UltraWomble]

Found amongst the wank mags I recently picked up at the auction

[Rust Collector]

3 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

To be fair everything suggested there has found its way into modern cars (although we have more gears in our push button automatics), they just don't look as cool!

[Datsuncog]

Heh, I had that image in a Vauxhall colouring book from around the same time.

Awesome.

[wesacosa]

cool.I have the cavalier brochure but a different colouring book

[Shite Ron]

I have not seen this advert before.

I opened this thread expecting to see an SD1:

[lesapandre]

Apart from the gas turbine (mind that 350°f exhaust!) lots of this guess is indeed as now. Graphic dashboard, self drive, aircon, car fridge, elevated motorway, car phone, lap belts, satnav, panoramic roof etc.

[lesapandre]

2 hours ago, Shite Ron said:

I have not seen this advert before.

I opened this thread expecting to see an SD1:

Having seen these new - I can say the styling was jawdropping at the time. Pity they were not made better.

[lesapandre]

And our future - what will it be like? This genius gives some ideas...

 

[lesapandre]

Rover - 152 mph. The whine from the turbine is fantastic. Pity it was not the future...

[Richard_FM]

4 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Rover - 152 mph. The whine from the turbine is fantastic. Pity it was not the future...

I heard the turbines needed far more precision engineering that a conventional IC engine which made them uneconomical for mass production.

[High Jetter]

Sure, Rovers over engineered, still precise, but maybe less so