The Real Concept Cars

All of the unusual cars featured in this book were presented as a Car of the Future. Concept cars are the motor industry’s way of showing the shape of things to come. Many are no more than glossy styling models, but there is another group, the Real Concept Cars, that demonstrate ideas that might (or might not) be incorporated in production cars many years later.

Award-winning motoring writer Ray Hutton has travelled the world reporting on the motor business and its products. Delving into his archive, he has selected forty of these technology demonstrators shown from the 1980s to the 2010s that previewed most of the features and systems we take for granted in our cars today.

From racing-inspired supercars to tiny city runabouts, fuel-sipping record-breakers to hydrogen powered zero-emissions vehicles, The Real Concept Cars is a fascinating array of rarely seen machines that mark the evolution of the modern motor car.

RAY HUTTON is a long-serving commentator on the motor industry and its products. He has explored all 40 cars featured in this book, and driven 16 of them. He was editor of Autocar into the 1980s, and subsequently a contributor to magazines, newspapers and websites worldwide, notably The Sunday Times and Car and Driver (USA). He is the award-winning author of nine books on cars, the motor industry and motor sport.