First shown at the Frankfurt Auto Show, images of the new Mercedes-Benz F-125 Gullwing Concept Car.
According to Mercedes, the F125 suggests what an automobile might look like in the year 2025, and what might propel it. Projecting that far ahead in this industry is chancy. When one thinks back 14 years in time, only a Nostradamus-caliber prophet could have foreseen our current world of iDevices, C.G.I. movies, Segway scooters, Mars Rovers and an electric Nissan, to say nothing of an African-American President of the United States.
Perhaps, when 2025 actually rolls around, we’ll look back on the F125 as an eccentric flight of fancy, little more than a quaint notion — like Ford’s 1958 design study for the Nucleon, a car that would have been powered by an onboard nuclear reactor.
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