Utterly and stunningly beautiful car. Perfect.

Mazda Furai concept

Pronounced 'foo-rye' and meaning the sound of wind, the Furai is the latest in the Nagare design series from Mazda. Based on a US Le Mans race series Courage C65 chassis and featuring a 3 rotor rotary engine, the car "blends the line between race and road car" according to Ken Saward, the Furai's lead designer.

Full of innovative design details we will cover in a forthcoming Design Review, the core significant development in the Furai design can be seen in the flow lines that run through the full spectrum of textural, through to prominent surface form, and on to the core feature lines and volumes of the car. In previous Nagare designs they formed the macro volumes and the surface textures only. This can be best seen in the sides, where flowing lines progress rearwards along the dihedral doors - becoming more distinct bone lines. These lines go on to gain small LEDs, which dramatically illuminate the side air intake apertures that they run into.

Other innovations include the "Air fang", which sits just aft of the cockpit above the boundary air flow layer (that draws clean air into the mid-mounted engine); the 'dolphin suede' material lining for much of the tiny cockpit; and the use of red as a secondary highlighting color contrasting the main graphite gray interior and exterior elements.

This was one of the richest and most exciting designs at the show, the big question that every non-Mazda car designer we spoke to asked was: 'How will this translate into a production design?'

 

god dayum i think that looks so beautiful. the front is pretty ridiculous but i still love it.

 

That thing is just awesome. Just a concept, but still awesome...

 

If you think the pictures are good go find a video of that thing. The 3 rotor sounds AAAAAMMMMMAAAZZZIINNNGG

EDIT found it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEOHn7rspsk

 

that is nasty