Look! This is a 3,000 horsepower car built for 2080

Scalatan wins Rimac Design Challenge that envisions a car six decades from now

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Sony Thomas, wheels Editor
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Croatian automaker Rimac has been on the radar of performance car enthusiasts ever since the Concept One broke cover back in 2011. Even as the carmaker’s second model C_Two with 1,914 horsepower and 2,300Nm is going limited production of 150 units, Rimac threw a challenge to designers around the world to come up with a vision of how a Rimac product would look like in the year 2080.
Max Schneider
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Out of the thousands of submissions received, Rimac’s design team picked the entry from Maximilian Schneider as the overall winner.
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Dubbed Rimac Scalatan Vision 2080, Max Schneider’s design concept is fittingly outlandish for a car 60 years into the future.
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The concept is built around a 3D-‘carboprinted’ titanium-graphite frame, which obviously will be as light as it is tough.
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The Scalatan’s imaginary all-electric powertrain pumps out 3,080 horspeower. That might seem outrageous in a car that weighs just 940 kg, but those could well be pedestrian figures 60 years from now!
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The Scalatan concept uses memory carbon nanotube technology for tyres, which apparently will let the tyres change their tread and surface area depending on terrain and other conditions.
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Advanced autonomous driving systems are understandably standard for this car of 2080. Human override of control is possible though.
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Considering the rate at which technology and design are evolving, a car from 2080 could look nothing like this, but if it actually does, it sure is great news for those alive then!
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