: Image: Daniel Simon
Daniel Simon is an automotive futurist. He’s interned with Lamborghini and worked on concept cars for VW. But the auto industry — indeed, the galaxy — could not contain his imagination.
In a time of all talk and no action by car companies promising us the car of the future, Simon’s new book Cosmic Motors: Spaceships, Cars and Pilots of Another Galaxy satisfies our future-lust with hyper-real fetish vehicles.
Most artist renderings of futuristic vehicles are so outlandish they verge on cartoonish. Simon avoids that trap by incorporating automotive and industrial touchstones — steering wheels, rivets, turbines — everyone can recognize. It feels like you could reach out and touch them.
Click through the gallery to check out these amazing vehicles and the stories behind them.
Left: Simon hasn’t just created cool vehicles, he’s created an elaborate back story for them. Most are built by Cosmic Motors, which could be called […]
Original post by Chuck Squatriglia
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