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4 Super Metroid
If you ever played Super Metroid back in the day, then the look of this car will really strike you with memories of days past. While it looks like the fictional video game character, it’s actually an urban-mobility concept that was developed by GM and showcased back in 2011.
According to GM Authority, it offered up seating for two, had two small electric motors, and could travel as far as 25 miles on a single charge.
It was envisioned as a car that was capable of level-5 autonomy and was designed to be a car that was connected to infrastructure and could dramatically cut down traffic congestion. Thanks to its small size, it was actually quite light, weight some 1,100 pounds – about a third of the weight of modern vehicles. It’s pretty wild and all, but it’s still pretty ugly too.
3 Ugly Part Deux
Following up on the first ugly Chevy concept, we present to you the EN-V 2.0. It’s simply a larger and slightly uglier version of the 2010 concept that proved GM had no idea what urban mobility of the future would really be like. This model actually featured enough room to seat two people fairly comfortably but had a central-mounted steering wheel that made absolutely no sense. As PC World put it, it looks like what you would get if you “crossed a ladybug with a Transformer robot.” It even had scissor-like doors, and like the previous model, had a top speed of about 25 mph. It was supposed to showcase level-5 autonomy like the model before and even had cameras and a LiDAR system similar to what some of Tesla’s models use today. This funky, ugly looking concept will probably never find its way into production but the future is a big unknown, and eventually, all the fun of driving will be long gone. Maybe, our future will be quite ugly after all.
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