I guess somebody at Lexus really wanted to come up with a new bat-mobile. Maybe the car itself isn't that spiffy looking, but designer Jon RÃ¥dbrink thinks that cool designs must be complemented by "low weight and large presence" in order to make for a great premium car in the future.

While it might look like an exotic prototype, the Lexus design is actually a luxury car forst and foremost. According to Gizmodo, the driver would use a drive-by-wire steering pad and a completely customizable multi-point touch screen. Rådbrink even thinks that our hands are far more accurate for driving than our feet, so he didn’t bother integrating any pedals. Everything is controlled via the steering wheel. "Since the car is powered by electrical motors [found in each of the four wheels]," Rådbrink says, "there is no transmission and you break intuitively by pushing the steering wheel away from your body."


Lexus “Bat-Mobile”

Published by Bogdan Alex, on Aug 18 2008, in the categories: transportation



I guess somebody at Lexus really wanted to come up with a new bat-mobile. Maybe the car itself isn’t that spiffy looking, but designer Jon Rådbrink thinks that cool designs must be complemented by "low weight and large presence" in order to make for a great premium car in the future.



While it might look like an exotic prototype, the Lexus design is actually a luxury car forst and foremost. According to Gizmodo, the driver would use a drive-by-wire steering pad and a completely customizable multi-point touch screen. Rådbrink even thinks that our hands are far more accurate for driving than our feet, so he didn’t bother integrating any pedals. Everything is controlled via the steering wheel. "Since the car is powered by electrical motors [found in each of the four wheels]," Rådbrink says, "there is no transmission and you break intuitively by pushing the steering wheel away from your body."




The prototype measures in at around 14.5-ft. and the lightweight materials are obviously introduced for the sake of increasing mileage and efficiency, as it is an electric vehicle after all. How light is light? "I believe that this design paradox of low weight and large presence could be the way we’ll define premium in the future," Rådbrink said. It turn out that the prototype is only intended to carry 2 passengers.