When the folks at Toyota unveiled a new hybrid concept car at the Detroit Auto Show yesterday, they mentioned that its design was inspired by video games popular during the 1980s--namely Contra, Mega Man and Super Mario Bros.
The car, known as the FT-CH Concept, is a "downstream version of the small hybrid Lexus LF-CH Concept" that was unveiled during the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, according to green.autoblog.com.
Should it make it to production, the two-door, four-seat FT-CH (which is just 153 inches long and 68.5 inches wide) likely will be marketed as an entry-level version of the automaker's popular Prius.
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I'd love an explanation about HOW it was inspired by them.
Yeah, I'd like that, too. All of the articles I've read about it have stated *why& the designers turned to 8-bit games for inspiration -- to attract young, hip buyers -- but none of them have said *how* they were inspired...
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