Third this morning! I was thinking, after my musings upon the Bauhaus typewriter and its usefulness in totalitarian futures—it is perhaps needless to say that's what the computers in my setting look like—about other properties/production design things in that sort of setting. And I also thought I'd show some more neat looking pictures.
Concept cars, and the like, are a never-ending boon to science fiction, mes enfants.
For example? Electric motorcycle, looks like a Harley. Actually, this one is a Harley. I give you the Harley-Davidson Trunk, designed by Nicolas Petit—a French guy who understands the appeal of American motorcycles better than many Americans.
Unfortunately this is a concept vehicle that will probably never get picked up—Harleys="makes cool noise", and an electric makes none—but I trust you agree that it's what a future society's American cruiser bikes would look like.On the "totalitarian squalor" front, this is a concept from a company that profited off slave labor and the Nazi war-effort. It's also a modernization of a design popular with hippies, so, strike two, really.
If that seems like a harsh thing to say about Volkswagen, please consider that the actually accurate translation of their name is "race-car". And not race as in "competition of speed", either.I find Renault has a look that is of value to SF, in its concept cars at least. For instance, here's a station wagon, the Altica.
Here's a sorta SUV-ish deal, the Egeus.
Okay, so finally, owing to my deep love of teh Haloz, a jeep. An actual one, the Jeep Renegade. Only, I think I'll have to have it called the Chrysler Vlakvark. Which is pronounced "Flakfark".
No idea where the turret would go.
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