The annual Design Challenge at the Los Angeles Auto Show invites American design studios to come up with the cars of the future. The brief for the 2008 Challenge was to create a racing car for 2025: here's a gallery of the extreme, adventurous and outrageous creations for motorsport in coming decades.
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Mazda KAAN (page 1 of 9)
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Voted the winner by an illustrious panel of judges, the three-wheeled KAAN has been conceived as a contender in a race series called E1: 2025's fastest formula, with electrically-driven vehicles.
The KAAN's styling has been inspired by electric fields and lightning bolts. The driver sits in a capsule, isolated from the electricity-conducting wheels - Mazda's team envisages a future in which California's freeways have been resurfaced with 'a sub-level electro-conductive polymer', sending power to the cars, and allowing for races where teams of 30 cars stick together, rather like a cycle-racing peleton.
