Nissan BladeGlider

Concept cars that look like they’ve popped right out of the fanciest Hollywood movies don’t shy away from proving their visual worth.  Here in Tokyo, the car expos know how to grab their audiences’ undivided attention.

Nissan’s BladeGlider, with its electric vehicle concept, showed off its beastly set of wheels at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show at Tokyo Big Sight.  Other attractions included a car that looked like a knife, with doors that swing up above, incorporating a driver pod arcade-style, bringing to mind the movie Tron.

Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of Nissan says, “EVs have unique characteristics that open up entirely new design possibilities, possibilities that our industry has yet to fully explore and realize.” True to those words, the BladeGlider gives the driver the sensation of gliding whilst on the roads. This is in part due to the driver’s seat being at the center position, in front of the two seats at the back. Referring to the BladeGlider, Nissan referred to it as a “…prototype of an upcoming production vehicle.”

With this year being it’s in its 80th anniversary other cars unveiled by the automaker included the highly powerful GT-R series – with two of them having 545 horsepower (2014 GT-R) and 600 horsepower (the GT-R Nismo).

On the flipside car manufacturer Toyota featured five offerings which included; the FCV (Fuel Cell Vehicle) Concept, FV2 (Fun Vehicle 2) and a next-generation taxi. These outrageously gorgeous cars proved to have more than just visual appeal; their designs and futuristic concepts (the shape-changing Kawasaki J three-wheel electric motorcycle comes to mind) showed off their power and awe-inducing features, too.

Nissan BladeGlider – Autoblog 
Nissan BladeGlider – Engadget
Nissan BladeGlider – Pocket-lint

Nissan BladeGlider