Which concept vehicle do you wish came into production, but didn't.

This feeds my anger every time, because even though it would've cost $800,000 if it did come into production, it would be the only car I felt would be worth it. Yes, my friends, the Ford GT90 is the only car that has caused my jaw to drop and me to question what my own eyes were witnessing. This marvel, way ahead of its time, will never show its beauty on top of silk asphalt, sun glistening off of its pearl white layers of metal, intertwining mysteriously with your soul, telling you that the fiction portrayed by an altered realm is in fact a reality. I think that if I could have one day to lay my palms upon the steering wheel of this heavenly prescence, I would know what bliss in its purest form felt like, and as I gaze into oblivion through the rear-view mirror, me and this vehicle, for seemingly forever, are the only things existing throughout the depths of infinite. Any of you guys have a concept car that make you feel this way? If so, post the model. Thanx.

cadillac cien, but I don't feel as passionate for it as I think you do for the GT90. I just thought it would have been cool if it came into production. A nice looking car all around. :thumbsup:

nice. That's a pretty mean looking car :evillol:

There are a ton of cars. I can't really think of them right now, but just to get started, Cien, a ton of GM stuff.

dodge's aptly named "concept car" would have been sweet to see in production. it was such an amazingly styled car with such class, and it was quick... it would have been great competition with the roadster market with the audi tt and the 350z roadster.

it would have been great competition with the roadster market with the audi tt and the 350z roadster.

Sorry man, but the GT90 is in Mclaren F1 territory (Top speed of about 240 mph & 0-60 in around 3 secs) :iceslolan

Sorry man, but the GT90 is in Mclaren F1 territory (Top speed of about 240 mph & 0-60 in around 3 secs) :iceslolan

lol.. what're you talking about? I'm not talkin about the gt90.. the gt90's not even a dodge, it's a ford. I'm talking about the concept car... it's actually named the copperhead, but i figured since 1/2 of you are teeny boppers who play gran tourismo, it's called the dodge concept car in the first gran tourismo. But yeah, it would have been a great addition to todays roadster market. It was a 220hp v6 roadster, which only got 0-60 in 6.8 seconds, but with a larger engine (it's only a 2.7L v6) like maybe a 3.0 or 3.5 they would be able to compete with the other roadsters, and contribute the exotica factor of it's unique body style.

http://www.conceptcarposter.com/chrysler_img/Dodge_Copperhead.jpg

check that baby out.. wow.. she's beautiful

lol.. what're you talking about? I'm not talkin about the gt90.. the gt90's not even a dodge, it's a ford. I'm talking about the concept car... it's actually named the copperhead, but i figured since 1/2 of you are teeny boppers who play gran tourismo, it's called the dodge concept car in the first gran tourismo. But yeah, it would have been a great addition to todays roadster market. It was a 220hp v6 roadster, which only got 0-60 in 6.8 seconds, but with a larger engine (it's only a 2.7L v6) like maybe a 3.0 or 3.5 they would be able to compete with the other roadsters, and contribute the exotica factor of it's unique body style.

http://www.conceptcarposter.com/chrysler_img/Dodge_Copperhead.jpg

check that baby out.. wow.. she's beautiful

:spit: OMG!!! I feel so stupid. Yeah, I knew about the copperhead. Sorry about that!! I got confused :rolleyes:

it's all good... wasn't tryin to insult u.. but does anyone else agree with me on that car?

Cadilac 16 would be a nice production car. Or the volkswagen nardo. And the coolest staion wagon of all times the volvo VCC. i think thats what its called. Another great one is the honda dualnote.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/autos/articles/general/story/822427p-977442c.html

http://subtle.org/se/pictures/cars/nardo-big.jpg

http://www.motoforum.pl/311/vcc01.jpg

http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com/media/news/concept.car/honda.dualnote/honda.dualnote.f3-4.500.jpg

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Yeah.. I'm thinking not. I believe a w16 is a lot better of an idea than the v16. v16's have been tried before. This is not the first. i just don't think that it's as much a production ready car as it is just a car to show that GM still has some good ideas coming out.

Well i dont know about the whole car but the engine is production ready. there is a running V16 engine. it has 1001 HP. It is esentialy two gm V8 that are welded at the crank. The engine was designed on computer so it was easy to build and design. If you want to know more, it was all in an article in Car and Driver about engine development

What I'm trying to say is it sounds too irrealistic. 1000hp at a crank that's being pushed by 16 pistons and is as long as a telephone pole. I understand that it obviously works, but it seems like it wouldn't be a very reliable engine, and there'd be many problems down the line.

also with that much heat being developed by the engine block it seems it would be hard to keep the engine cool for a long powerful drive.

To start, all cadillacs can suck my left nut. (caddy 16, and cien?) Anywho, the concept car i wish could make it to production is the ford 49, and the mazda ibuki. That would be cool.
about the GT90, it is a sweet looking car, but i doubt anyone would pay 800k for a ford, and its white. bla. i am quite pleased with the GT, and i am glad they left it at that.

The GT is no good mr. man of the girls. The 90 is way better, and the 40 looks like shit, and it can't touch cars with half it's price.

I have to say I agree with the GT90 lovers! I could not believe it when Ford decided to go with the original GT40 as a production item. I have a 1:18 Maisto model of the 90 and someday I am going to get enough money to have it scanned and blown up so someone can make a mold and fiberglass it. Hopefully someone will beat me to it.

I kinda liked the way the GT90 looked.

OT: I just wish the (Honda) HSC would go into production with inpresive numbers. HSC is said to replace the NSX. I just dont want to see such a good looking car not go into production just like the GT90 did.

Sorry man, but the GT90 is in Mclaren F1 territory (Top speed of about 240 mph & 0-60 in around 3 secs)
The first sub 3 sec car is the new chrysler Me for-twelve.Sorry to say faster than mclaren f1

none of those cars mater( except the mclaren F1) because they are probably non runing models and the figures u guys have are estimates. there are only 4 cars that get close to the mclaren, Enzo ferrari, Porsche GT, pagani zonda and konings egg CC.

GT90 was cool, sorry but I love the GT40 better (doesn't mean I don't like the GT90 I do) and I would've loved to have seen the 49 make production. The Cien would be nice if they made it look better, as far as the Cad. V16 concept car that thing was a monstrosity. The SVT Tbird with supercharger would've been nice. The retro continental with suicide doors was a disappointment, because it should be a boat like the original. Ford made 2 mid engine sports cars in the 60's they never made, one called the Mach III but they scraped it and made the Pantera with DeTomaso. The second was small with a mid engine V4 (1/2 a 289) and called I believe the Mustang II but they scraped that and used the name in the 70's for the Pinto based stang. They used the V4 in England in the Anglia I think and sold some to Saab for use in the Sonnet.
AMC had a mid engine beauty in the 60's called the AMX 2 but it never made production, and the 71 AMX (13 where made) but it was decided to just make the AMX and option on the Javelin instead. Ford also had a front engine rear drive roadster design for Lincoln in the late 80's called the Vignale I think, I would've loved to have seen that one made. Not sure I'd like to see it but what about the Corvette mid engine rotary cars chevy was showing in the 70's and saying it was the next Vette?

The first sub 3 sec car is the new chrysler Me for-twelve.Sorry to say faster than mclaren f1

yea but the mclaren is NA and its a great racign engine developed by bmw that revs to like 8k

on the other hand, even with 4 turbos and a v12 the chrysler barely makes 850hp, some turbo supras make over 850 hp, and im pretty sure if bmw wanted to, they could push more power out of it

To answer the original question, I'd say the Jaguar XK180 Roadster concept.

http://www.seriouswheels.com/jaguar-xk180-concept.htm

http://www.seriouswheels.com/Jaguar-XK180.htm

http://www.mcarsweb.com/jaguar/xk180.htm

God yes the XK180 needed to have been produced. Jaguar intended for it to compete with the Boxster, at the Boxster's price point, with the Jaguar AJ-V8, a Getrag manual trans, and a body that designer Ian Callum called "My finest work ever."

And this coming from the man who has designed the Aston Martin DB7, Jaguar XK8, and Aston Martin Vanquish.

Some others I miss........

Chrysler Portofino; a super sedan bred from the days when Chrysler owned Lamborghini.
http://www.lambocars.com/highres/porto.jpg

Alfa Romeo Brera; ungodly beautiful coupe
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/large/1331-7.jpg

BMW Z07; the superb handling, righteously quick coupe/roadster we were supposed to get instead of the weak-kneed Z8.
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/large/55-1.jpg

Dodge Razor; the tiny FR coupe that carried the SRT-4 turbo engine. With the Solstice on its way, Dodge needs this car BAD!
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/large/1181-1.jpg

Ford GT90, but supposedly it was terrible. That was what Jeremy Clarkson had mentioned when he was tesing the new Ford GT.

btw the front of that Jaguar XK-180 looks exactly like that of the Aston Martin DB7...Don't you think so?

Well, like I said, the DB7 and the F-type/XK180 shared a designer - coupe maestro Ian Callum.

i am not wishing a concept would come into production, rather for a car about to come into production to be changed. the pontiac solstice. everything is great about it. but why put a 4 cylinder in there. i was hopping more along the lines of a v-8 (i.e. firebird replacement). but oh well, they caught onto the bandwagon i guess.

The Solstice is a Miata hunter, and a pretty darn good one at that. Wish they'd decided to produce the coupe along with the roadster.

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/large/1185-1.jpg

I'm sure someone (Jon Moss) will figure out how to stick a V8 into the Kappa platform. Although, honestly, I think it'd spoil the idea of the car a little. Honestly, though, the thought occurs to me to slip the 3800 Series II Supercharged OHV V6 into the Kappa cars and have a bit of fun. :biggrin:

Jensen P66:

http://home.no.net/jensenff/images/jensen_p66.jpg

(sorry, STILL haven't figured out inserting images...)

http://home.no.net/jensenff/images/jensen_p66.jpg

There you go. Neat looking roadster, if eerily similar looking to the Mercedes-Benz 230SL.

Thanks. Now, imagine how quick it was with a Chrysler 383 in it. :eek: