I think many misunderstand the purpose of a concept car. A true concept car can never be manufactured because they design exercises that are free from engineering restraints, crash standards and cost restrictions. They are intended to get the designers to establish a language that is going to be used for a production model and to test the public's desire for these concepts. The cases where manufactures have closely followed the concept in establishing a production car have more often than not resulted in severely compromised cars like the Gen 5 Camaro which has perhaps the worst ergonomics of a modern production car I have ever seen.
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