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The Cadillac Cyclone XP-74 is another visionary vehicle clearly influenced by aviation.

Get this - the XP-74 featured proximity-sensing radar units that scanned the road and warned the driver of objects in its path. It also included an intercom system that allowed passengers to speak to people outside the car without having to open the roof. For those occasions when you really must speak to pedestrians…

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“There are more people in the world who make things than there are people who think of things to make.” - Syd Mead.

Syd Mead started out a Ford’s Advanced Styling studio in 1959 and today is best known for his work on science fiction films. As much is evident from this sci-fi vision of the future.

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The Bugatti Type 57S Competition Coupe Aerolithe (French for meteor) was unveiled at the 1935 Paris Motor Show under its original name, the Type 57 Coupe Special.

It was fabricated in Elektron magnesium alloy and those rivets running along the spine and arches are structurally necessary. This particular vehicle is a faithful 2007 recreation of the original car, built using photographs, factory records and an oil painting.

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The Firebird XP-21 was the first gas turbine-powered car built and tested in the United States.

The styling was influenced by the Douglas F4D Skyray jet and - back in 1953 - was described as “a jet fighter on four wheels”. There were one or two problems: the exhaust temperature at the tailpipe was 1,000-degrees fahrenheit and it was seriously thirsty.

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You needn’t have a GCSE in French to translate the 1942 L’Oeuf Electrique as the ‘Electric Egg’.

See any similarities?

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I want the electric egg or firebird

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