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Like Gibson's story "The Gernsback Continuum", I see cars like this and, I see that, for a moment, the future we dreamed of is finally coming true... then it fades back to reality, where instead we have... http://www.caranddriver.com/bentley/bentayga


Yeah, there's a retro-future optimism in that car that's very attractive and playful but ultimately sad. It represents a future that "could have been".

Reminds me a little of the work by the designer Luigi Colani (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Colani).




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