wired.com: By Chuck Squatriglia

Practicality is the last thing anyone considers when designing concept cars. A car made of glass? Windows like gun slits? An automakers’ lawyers would kill those ideas faster than General Motors is killing Hummer.

But practicality isn’t the point. Concept cars are flights of fantasy carrying auto design into the future. Since our future will be a place where a gallon of gas costs more than a gallon of Scotch, the students at Royal College of Art designed their cars that run on things like electricity and algal fuel. [ read more ]