Why there is no reasoning in the article regarding a rear engine is beyond me. I do agree that opening up the frontal area could make it easier. I’m not an engineer but wouldn’t an engine help in an added wall of sorts?

I do agree that today we are seeing a shift in design. Interior, exterior and yes engine and drive train. I’d go as far as to say that 99% of us do not use 90% of the vehicle we own.

Driving on the highway almost everyday now, I see more and more single drivers with large vehicles. I to am single although I drive a small car, as VW New Beetle (2900lbs.)

There have been a lot of Volkswagen enthusiast that want the Lupo brought over. This is it. Even if it’s another brand, yes these small concepts will take over.

Even if it isn’t small, engine types and energy types will. Volkswagen’s TDI, TFSI and TSI engines are amazing.

One of these days I’ll switch. I love my mod’d 1.8T except that I have to run premium. My wife does like both the Tiguan and this space up!

This car is a paradigm shift to go with the Mitsubishi iCar and shows the way toward the future: smaller, more efficient use of interior space, simplified drive train, smaller engines with fewer components. The seats are brilliant. Finally a break from an 80 year old tradition in seat design.

Now, chuck those oversize wheels, which are for fashion only and put some realistic rubber on them for real road conditions.

This is more than enough car for 90% of our needs. Most of the time we drive alone. On average we use a 4,000 pound machine to move a 200 pound payload. Only cheap, readily available fuel has allowed us the luxury of this type of gross inefficiency. Those days are over.

When the gas lines of 1973 come back (and they will — it’s a matter of when not if), this car concept will be a number one seller.