McLaren began applying its racing expertise to road cars about 25 years ago, and despite competing with Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini, and other supercars, it’s always seemed to operate on a higher plane. Affordable crossover or not, this is at the top of our driving bucket list based on looks alone. The French automaker is no stranger to bringing futuristic design to the masses, but the compact Cactus (it’s about the size of a Nissan Juke) is the most out-there the company’s gotten in years. ( not yet, at least), but Citroën’s Cactus is proof that you can still make an avant-garde entry-level car. It’ll rocket you from zero to 60 in just 4.2 seconds, but for most people, they won’t be able to get over its spaceship styling and all that exposed carbon fiber. Its mid-mounted 0.9-liter turbocharged inline-three is mated to an electric motor for 320 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque.
The i8 has been with us for two years now, and it still looks like something out of the near future. But if you told us 10 years ago that we’d have an all-electric, 532 horsepower people mover that could go over 250 miles on a charge, and silently whisk you and six of your closest friends from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.3 seconds, we’d say you were crazy. Yes, we know that there isn’t much of a market for an $81K-and-up minivan with Falcon Wing doors, and that the Model X has had more than its fair share of quality control issues. Here are eight of our favorite futuristic cars that have landed on our planet recently. As is often the case, many are found on the upper end of the price and performance spectrum, but there are still a few affordable models that can make the everyman channel his inner Walter Mitty too. Neither does the Chevy Corvette, Honda Odyssey, or Ford F-150, despite its aluminum-intensive diet.īut there are a growing number of models that are embracing this technological boom and look like they’re pure science fiction. Today’s Toyota Corolla doesn’t look all that radically different from the last one. That said, it’s conventional wisdom that most car shoppers like things they’re already familiar with, so while there’s been a revolution under your car’s skin, it’s likely that its style has evolved a lot more gracefully on the outside. Build quality is likely better than ever before across the board, and we’re even reaching the point when our cars can do most of the driving.
Today, it’s almost impossible to find a complete lemon. Advances in safety, technology, and power mean cars today are evolving faster than ever before, to the point where an automotive utopia seems within reach. If you traded in your ’06 for something new today, you’d be in for a shock. If you traded in a 1996 model for a new car in 2006, chances are it wouldn’t feel that different.
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