{"id":5132,"date":"2004-03-08T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/08\/5132\/"},"modified":"2004-03-08T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T02:12:41","slug":"concept-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5132","title":{"rendered":"Concept Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, nearly all the major car companies issue &#8220;<a href=\"\nwww.tokyo-motorshow.com\/show\/\">concept cars<\/a>&#8221;  &#8211;   Basically the company takes a bunch of their designers and has them go buck-wild.  These cars tour various car shows for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The concept car is a model- it is one of a kind and is not supported by mass manufacturing resources of the producing  company.  Sometimes the concept car isn&#8217;t even drivable, but rather a big mockup made from plastic or wax.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Very few concept cars make it to market; generally they are just a showcase of innovative design from the company.  However, some of the features from the concept cars make it into general production.  The Prowler closely followed the design of a concept car.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>So&#8230;  what happens to the concept cars after the season is over?  Do they get sold to collectors?  Or is there a crazy warehouse owned by each company, housing fifty crazy science fiction cars?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyo-motorshow.com\/show\/\">(2001) Tokyo Motor Show<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptcarz.com\">Concept Carz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, nearly all the major car companies issue &#8220;concept cars&#8221; &#8211; Basically the company takes a bunch of their designers and has them go buck-wild. These cars tour various car shows for the rest of the year. The concept car is a model- it is one of a kind and is not supported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}