Oct 9 2009Not A Plane: Nissan's Futuristic Land Glider
Sure it may look like a spaceship's cockpit, but it's not! It's the cockpit of Nissan's Land Glider, a conceptual car design recently unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show.
This is the Nissan Land Glider, an electric car with two seats. it has a narrow body, which Nissan says will help reduce traffic congestion by allowing more cars in the same city space, as well as making parking easier. It has a balancing system to make it stable as it takes curves, compensating for inertia with the car's body movement.
I actually like it (hit the jump for more shots and a video). And not just because it looks skinny enough to bob and weave between a giant robot's legs, but that's something you have to think about when you're in the market for a futuristic car. Also, standard weaponry and estimated RBI. Ha, what do you mean that's a baseball stat? SHUT UP I KNOW CAR STUFF!
Hit it for for more pictures and a 6:00 video.
The Coolest Car Cockpit I Have Seen to Date [gizmodo]
Thanks to Julian and Lemur, who don't just drive futuristic cars, they ARE futuristic cars. Decepticons -- kill them with fire!
Reader Comments
1. First - October 9, 2009 3:15 PM
LOLOLOLOLLOL FRITST
2. pew pew - October 9, 2009 3:17 PM
wats smaller then a smart car and looks more retarted? THIS
3. first - October 9, 2009 3:17 PM
F U FIRST!!!!!
anyone below this line is gay
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4. a dog - October 9, 2009 3:19 PM
Dammit i wanted to be first.
5. Leonidas - October 9, 2009 3:26 PM
@2:
a) don't try to steal the meme of our friend pew-cubed
b) don't be a retart
On a lighter note, I seem to remember Mercedes making a similar thing called "Life Jet" some time backâthey did a much better job, though.
6. Batman - October 9, 2009 3:26 PM
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Anyone above this line is a gay robot.
And this car looks sweet.
7. Derrick - October 9, 2009 3:26 PM
*End Line... Everyone above this line is gay!*
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8. naas(TRO) - October 9, 2009 3:28 PM
someone unlocked the firstard containment box & a bunch of shit just fell all over the floor
9. Hot Rod - October 9, 2009 3:31 PM
.... no mirror and the kid driving it looks wayyy under age... bring it on
10. Blastphemer - October 9, 2009 3:33 PM
Cool concept, but you can pretty much kiss roadhead goodbye.
Would be cooler with twin front mounted 50 cals. GET OUTTA MY WAY HUMMER!!!!!!!
11. Batman - October 9, 2009 3:35 PM
@8 I don't know what you mean?
12. Elboroto - October 9, 2009 3:38 PM
Very Evangelion...
13. JADE - October 9, 2009 3:39 PM
Don't like cars that look like they are smiling.....don't like happy shit
14. Dion Phaneuf is a prick - October 9, 2009 3:40 PM
Shit shit won't work in the snow!
15. Fadm. Notbob - October 9, 2009 3:40 PM
The inside of this thing looks amazing, but the outside looks like shit.
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anyone to the left of this line is a commie
16. ObamaPacman - October 9, 2009 3:42 PM
The video looks flattened. Just look at the girl. She on the way to looking like a pancake.
And why are they driving at 20 miles per hour? I want to see high speed cornering like the mario cart:
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/08/real_life_mario_kart_gokart_is.php
17. Pat - October 9, 2009 3:44 PM
This thing looks awesome!
18. JJtoob - October 9, 2009 3:44 PM
I want a fortress, not a scape pod. Aaand I want to see it go over bumps, off roading, water puddles (deep water meaning amphibious is a plus), spin doughnuts, burn rubber, stop from 60 mph as fast as it can, crash tests, and two people dry hump inside. Until all appropriate tests are completed and a video released (not like this one with the vehicle just going straight and on turns for freakin 6 minutes!) then I won't be impressed.
19. Kevin - October 9, 2009 3:52 PM
why is there a driver side and passenger side door?
20. JJtoob - October 9, 2009 3:52 PM
@12 Unit one.... launch! New safety feature: AT field. Drawback: it's battery runs out in 5 minutes unless they install an S2 engine, and it could go berserk.
@14 oh you are right! I wanna see it on snow too!
21. Truth - October 9, 2009 3:52 PM
whats with the quicktime logo on the back?
22. j - October 9, 2009 3:57 PM
it shouldn't be a 2 door either, the top should open like the bat mobile.
23. LandWhale - October 9, 2009 4:04 PM
Three things:
1. Crosswind
2. Emergency maneuvers
3. It's gay
24. Craig - October 9, 2009 4:11 PM
I'd be pissed when my coffee spilled everytime I turned a corner!
25. Blake Helms - October 9, 2009 4:11 PM
They are just licensing the technology from Carver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPOkeJCiw9A
26. MojoGunz - October 9, 2009 4:18 PM
@6 and @7 - both of your names are positioned above the lines you declared as the 'gay area'...just saying...
27. Dave - October 9, 2009 4:24 PM
@24 With the car (and your cup) banking like that, your coffee would be less likely to spill.
28. livingjetlag - October 9, 2009 5:02 PM
It's gonna take like thirty of these things to combine to make Voltron. Evil is going to have a much easier time now, since a committee of thirty people won't be able to coordinate to do anything.
29. Cruisemissleking - October 9, 2009 5:03 PM
That.
Looks.
SICK.
30. Batman - October 9, 2009 5:05 PM
@24 i totally meant that, I am a gay robot, do you have a problem with that?
31. Daisy - October 9, 2009 5:13 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max tried to buy a girl waffles in a diner and a big tattoed guy menaced him.
32. MojoGunz - October 9, 2009 5:18 PM
@30 - Hey, whatever oils your squeaky hinges...
33. Kathleen - October 9, 2009 5:26 PM
Everything I see here ends up on Daily Planet.
and I see it here first.
34. Nick Sydney - October 9, 2009 5:47 PM
damn that car is small, i think it would look cooler if it was shorter
35. ToyotaOwner - October 9, 2009 6:39 PM
This six minute video shows the car driving around corners ever so gracefully FOR SIX MINUTES AND NEVER SHOWS THE INTERIOR??!!?!?!? Which makes me believe that the interior still photo is nothing but a bunch of MALARKEY!!!
But I have to say the car looks cool in a weird one-man-space-pod-kind-of-way...
36. Phil Ken Sebben - October 9, 2009 7:01 PM
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this is a line.
37. Rui Roseno - October 9, 2009 7:12 PM
looks like a chinese with facial paralysis....
how do you do a powerslide with this? future without petrol engines is no fun.. :(
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39. Gabo - October 9, 2009 9:11 PM
@2
What's even more retarded than this car? YOU for writing "what's" as "wats"!
40. dot - October 9, 2009 11:41 PM
Big deal, Messerschmitt did the same thing ages ago. Yes, THAT Messerschmitt.
http://bellastuttgart.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/messerschmitt.jpg
This thing is funky. That Nissan looks more like a toilet on the Death Star.
41. noidkiller - October 9, 2009 11:50 PM
Eh, I've imagined things better than this
42. Geekolojew - October 10, 2009 7:45 AM
Must See!!!
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43. Jaded Icon - October 10, 2009 8:32 AM
@ 23
You forgot,
1. Speedbumps and potholes
2. Weather (rain, snow)
3. Deer
44. truthlies - October 10, 2009 5:56 PM
line lol
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45. reubbin - October 11, 2009 10:52 AM
the car is cool, i think it would suitable for single.
46. Kyster - October 11, 2009 1:40 PM
Woow, a car that actually start, stop and turns, that is freaking amazing. Somebody tell me that it can drive by itself, or i will have to delete the whole intarweb!
47. Ramiel - October 11, 2009 7:11 PM
This is the kind of futuristic car I would see meter maids drive in. So cool, it gives other people's cars tickets for being inferior.
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49. Rich Waffle-U - October 12, 2009 6:49 AM
That thing looks like someone got a Nissan Micra and squahsed the cack out of it. Where the eff do you put your groceries? Cars in the future are all fine and dandy if you subsist off of replicated food.
50. Biz Raid - October 12, 2009 2:09 PM
The first picture makes the car look cool and the lower you get down the pictures the worse it gets. If they can make the inside like it is but not make the outside look like a segway hybrid then they may have something but right now that would be embarrassing to drive around.
51. Mike Hawk - October 12, 2009 4:15 PM
Gay Tron's Light Cycle.
52. The Bush Whackerh - October 13, 2009 6:50 AM
Anyone notice that if you look at this car front on, it has the face of a robot.
53. The Bush Whackerh - October 13, 2009 6:52 AM
Yup, the headlights are the eyes. The wheels in the front that move up and down are the cheeks. The Nissan symbol is the nose and the grill below that is the mouth.
54. Moshe - October 13, 2009 6:22 PM
I would like to have this car. What it`s price may be, and when we can rich this car for us?
55. jqeghawf - October 14, 2009 8:34 AM
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Everyone above this that said people are gay are the real ones who are retarded.
56. jqeghawf - October 14, 2009 8:37 AM
And this car is pretty cool when it curves.
57. Dan Halen - October 14, 2009 1:57 PM
Cool concept, but I wouldn't even consider it until they add a drink holder and an ashtray...cuz I like to drink and smoke while I drive.
58. nadyenka - October 14, 2009 9:41 PM
i t would look much better as a convertible
59. WTF?! - October 15, 2009 2:51 PM
It looks so coolll...Like herpes...Most inefficient car design evar...
60. dawhinnius - October 15, 2009 4:57 PM
But do those other minicars run QuickTime? I think not.