So crazy it might just work: from Indian designer Ramesh Gound comes a motorcycle concept that's also a car. How so, you ask? Combine two of these motorcycles together, and you get a car.
Gound is currently enjoying an internship at the Pininfarina design firm in Italy, known for its work for brands like Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, and Volvo. Asked to define "luxury" in the contemporary Indian sense, Gound simply took a renowned export of his home country—the Kamasutra—and applied it to vehicle design. Said the Indian: "After studying Kamasutra, I realised its essence and my theme emerged — two objects coming together and moving in one direction with a force of passion."
That's why Ramesh imagined two motorcycles coupling together to form a two-seater car. The aesthetics are also ethnically-inspired, derived from the flowing characteristics of Indian architecture. In motorcycle mode, each of the two component pieces vaguely resemble a no-frills sports bike. Converting into car mode is a simple matter of angling the two bikes towards each other and locking them together.
The only oddity of this transformation? Riding the car requires the passengers to face the opposite way. The front wheels of the bikes become the rear wheels of the car in other words. Does Ramesh Gound's concept have potential? Light up the comments below with your honest opinions.
