These innovative sci-fi-inspired automotive designs look like they’ve been picked straight out of iconic films like Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Back to the Future! Granted, they are only concepts, but the designers do a fabulous job of impressing you with their futuristic looks, unconventionality, and advanced functionality. You’re surely going to wish these were real!
Vehicle: The Pandemax Concept
Designer: Radek Štěpán
Štěpán’s Pandemax has a distinct Star Wars-inspired aesthetic. Designed to be an explorer vehicle or fortified rover, it’s got all-terrain tires and high ground clearance to overcome ultra-rugged terrain. Plus, explorers can get a full view of the landscape ahead thanks to a panoramic windshield and two front seats located at the absolute front of the vehicle.
Vehicle: The Polestar 1K
Designer: Fabian Breës
Breës’s Polestar 1K is a racecar without a driver; it doesn’t even have a cockpit. Instead, this Speed Racer-inspired machine is made entirely for robo-racing. The designer also took cues from Terminator 2’s evil assassin T-1000 and wrote ‘Death To All Humans’ on the hypercar’s rear lower wing. It’s fully electric and features an AI brain and cameras on all ends, including a 360° camera on its central watchtower to ensure there are no blind spots.
Vehicle: The Equus Kylo bike
Designer: Tamás Jakus
Jakus Equus Kylo’s bike is a dedication to Kylo Ren in all his evil dark force glory. The bike is entirely black and complete with Kylo Ren’s ‘logo’ between the two wheels and a headlight inspired by Ren’s helmet. The headlight dons multiple horizontal chrome strips that extend down the sides to give the bike its signature piercing glare. There’s an illuminated red bird logo that looks like an abstraction of Ren’s lightsaber on the side to top it all off.
Vehicle: The Tesla Origami concept
Designer: Jaeheon Lee
Lee adapted elements of Tesla’s Cybertruck frame, NASA’s Mars rover, and SpaceX’s Mars colonizing dreams to bring this concept to life. The car is renewable energy powered with origami-inspired solar panels that expand to harness the sun’s energy when the vehicle is parked. Future explorers of distant planets would use the Tesla Origami to freely scout the land, safely within its reinforced exoskeleton body built for rigidity and atop airless tires that adapt to the terrain.
Vehicle: The Horizon Cavorite X5
Designer: Horizon Aircraft
The Horizon Cavorite X5 is an EVTOL that sports the aesthetic of a sleek stealth-bomber with wings that split open to reveal multiple fans underneath. These internal fans help with vertical take-off and landing, then are concealed when the X5 switches to flight mode as a wing-based aircraft that can hit 350 km/h (217mph). The aircraft is named after a fictional super-material mentioned in HG> Wells’ 1901 book The First Men in the Moon, which can cancel out the effects of gravity when cooled.
Vehicle: Loki
Designer: Christian Grajewski
Industrial designer Christian Grajewski takes you on a ride into a mythical world where mysteries remain to be unraveled, and strange creatures rule the land, or perhaps an Earth where humankind has been erased from existence already, and beings with superior powers exist. His concept vehicle called ‘Loki’ (named after the notorious god in Norse mythology) is a hovercraft/flying car from that realm.
Vehicle: The Apocalyptic Vehicle Series
Designer: Jomar Machado
Machado’s Apocalyptic Vehicle series previews what our rides would look like if the world collapsed into chaos. The vehicles are a combination of real cars with military-grade weapons and impossible technology. The outcome is something that looks as if it came out of Mad Max, Death Race, or Carmageddon – and it’s 100% awesome.
Vehicle: The NASA Bike
Designer: Simon Grytten
Grytten’s NASA Bike was designed for Mars missions, and it’s more than just a mode of transportation. It harnesses the wind energy from storms typical on the planet to charge its battery and the base station’s battery. So the two-wheeler essentially turns into a wind turbine when not in use – quite fitting since everything taken to be used in space should be as resourceful as possible!
Simon Grytten is the same brilliant mind that made the Neo Bauhaus Audi concept.
