Nissan has presented a study model whose name may cause jitters. The brand presents the GT-R (X) 2050 Concept to the world, a very distant look into the future.
The Nissan GT-R dates from 2007 and that makes the extraordinarily fast Japanese supercar one of the older models in the automotive world. The name of the study model that Nissan is showing today suggests that we are dealing here with a preview of a new GT-R. Not entirely true, the GT-R (X) 2050 Concept is a car of a completely different order.
The GT-R (X) 2050 Concept was designed by one Jaebum ‘JB’ Choi, an aspiring automotive designer in training who is studying at the ArtCenter College of Design in California, USA and who completed his internship at Nissan Design America. There Choi created the only 2.91 meters long, 1.54 meters wide and 66 centimeters low GT-R (X) 2050 Concept. The GT-R (X) 2050 Concept is a single-seater with special slippers. The flat design study namely has fairly small wheels, specimens with a diameter of 15 inches. However, 21-inch rubber is folded around it. The shape of the footwear makes it possible, according to the creator of the GT-R (X) 2050 Concept, to turn 360 degrees while standing still. The wheels and tires are not the only special thing about the GT-R (X) 2050 Concept.
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The GT-R (X) 2050 Concept is a single-seater that the driver steers while lying on his stomach. Arms and legs extend towards the wheels at the corners, as if the driver were a starfish. A portable machine. Or a futuristic belly slider, if you like. Choi envisions a future where the human brain is connected to the car’s computer, and that the GT-R (X) 2050 should make Concept safer than ‘normal autonomous cars’.
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Although the GT-R (X) 2050 Concept seems to have little to do with the GT-R, there are some GT-R-like design elements in the car. For example, the round taillights are typical of the current GT-R and its predecessors and the red accents are a nod to the Nismo version of the supercar, according to Nissan. The electric vision of the future may have little to do with reality, but it does provide some refreshment in the conceptual corner of the car country. Nissan will not have serious plans.