Hmmm ...

He probably wasn't allowed to read Penthouse when he was seven. I wasn't.

 

Hmmm ...

He probably wasn't allowed to red Penthouse when he was seven. I wasn't.

What means this word "allowed"? 😁

 

The Penthouse article was titled "Future Wheels: Six Of The World's Top Automotive Designers Envision The Cars Of 2001". The issue was October 1978. You can find an archive copy online.

 

The urbacar looks better, blasphemy I know, but it does.
hopefully elon is trolling here and the real car is underneath.

 

Wow.......from the shape to the sliding bed cover to the crouching back end air suspension to the ramp in the back etc.........the cybertruck IS the urbacar in modern day cladding

 

I'm expecting a lawsuit from Mr. Brubaker. And he was only ~20 years early!

 

assuming they didn't buy the rights to it and/or worked with him

 

Naughty boy!

 

a tiny alcohol-burning turbine to drive two electric motors. that's pretty forward thinking for what they had to work with back then. we power destroyers with big turbine engines powering electric motors today.

basically an air suspension, fold down rear gate. that's just amazing.

 

What’s on the next page?

 

In the spirit of this thread, here's a Houston example. I've passed this nondescript building a thousand times; it's located at a busy corner with an entrance to one of the two loops that encircles the city. I've always wondered how something so plain (no windows, expansive parking lot, zero landscaping, broken pavement) had survived the test of time, especially when so many buildings around it have been modernized in recent years.

I drove by yesterday and had a totally different reaction. The design that I previously likened to a dowager's hump, I now recognize to have been the inspiration for the Cybertruck. It was never ugly, just before its time.

 

Yeah, I recall that write-up well. I bought that month's issue just to read that article.