Photo: Budget Direct
About three years ago, Japanese carmaker Toyota introduced the "car of the future," a design study going by the name Concept-i. The egg-shaped machine was supposed to be, like all others of its kind, a preview of things to come.
But even if Toyota itself didn’t say when we’re to expect the design lines and technologies of the i to make their way into a production vehicle, others did. We're talking about the renderers from Australian insurance company Budget Direct, who captured the concept’s essence and transplanted it onto what they call 2050 Corolla.
The design is part of a larger project that tries to envision how "7 cars that will never die" will look like 30 years from now. We’ve already discussed several of them, including the Mustang, Corvette, and MINI.
The Corolla was included on this list for obvious reasons. At a time when all American carmakers have all but abandoned sedans, Toyota is soldiering on and it’s killing the segment: in 2019, for instance, the Corolla sold over 220,000 units. If it keeps it up, that means we’ll probably still have the nameplate around in the year 2050. And it’s possible it'll look something like this Concept-i-inspired rendering.
Like most other machines of the future, this one likely makes use of an all-electric powertrain; since we’re not given any details on its capabilities, we’re free to dream up whatever performance specs we like.
Visually, the rendering shows a reimagined Concept-i, sporting the same wheel design and general lines, but going for a more elongated outline than the egg-shaped concept.
Now, the Concept-i was shown at the 2017 CES, and that means it was loaded with advanced technologies or ideas (you can read more about that here). Because this is a car from the future, we can easily imagine it using most of them, including the vehicle’s AI Agent, Yui.
The design is part of a larger project that tries to envision how "7 cars that will never die" will look like 30 years from now. We’ve already discussed several of them, including the Mustang, Corvette, and MINI.
The Corolla was included on this list for obvious reasons. At a time when all American carmakers have all but abandoned sedans, Toyota is soldiering on and it’s killing the segment: in 2019, for instance, the Corolla sold over 220,000 units. If it keeps it up, that means we’ll probably still have the nameplate around in the year 2050. And it’s possible it'll look something like this Concept-i-inspired rendering.
Like most other machines of the future, this one likely makes use of an all-electric powertrain; since we’re not given any details on its capabilities, we’re free to dream up whatever performance specs we like.
Visually, the rendering shows a reimagined Concept-i, sporting the same wheel design and general lines, but going for a more elongated outline than the egg-shaped concept.
Now, the Concept-i was shown at the 2017 CES, and that means it was loaded with advanced technologies or ideas (you can read more about that here). Because this is a car from the future, we can easily imagine it using most of them, including the vehicle’s AI Agent, Yui.
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