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When it comes to the future most people are sure that cars will fly or will be able to move vertically. But nowadays not a single car manufacturer made people’s dreams come true. Manufacturers are pragmatic, though sometimes even they use imagination and create concepts. So the future car appears to be a convenient, safe, comfortable and ecological device with four wheels still.


More and more golf-class compact cars tend to have spacious saloons without enlargening the whole car’s dimensions. This tendency can be explained as a desire to make the driver and passangers feel more comfortable. A bigger saloons nowadays have such cars as Opel Astra, Opel Corsa, Renault Clio, Renault Twingo, Nissan Almera Classic, Toyota Auris alongside with Honda Civic and MINI. In Civic’s case a bigger size of the saloon was made possible by a smaller cowling size. The tendency is following: an angine should occupy as least space as possible to make saloons biggers which means more comfortable.

To avoid jams and road crashes cars should be taught to communicate with each other. Emotional drivers with unexpected reactions should become history. Car will soon be able to find who is wrong and who is right themselves. Volkswagen has already suggested a communication system via GPS as an option in their concepts. With the help of this system it will be possible to learn a number of free lots in the parking area, a number of cars in a traffic jam, and simply chat with a neighbour car owner. Honda has been working on this for a long time already. And the ASV-3 concept is equipped with side cameras, radar and a communication system which will soon allow to keep the distance between cars without driver doing it.

Nevertheless it is still impossible to eject a driver from a communication string. That’s why cars should learn to communicate with drivers more efficiently. At the moment a car’s saloon features a great number of different buttons and with technology progress this number gets even more significant. The voice control is not that quick to come, but a sensor display which features all the possible options has already been invented by Peugeot company ( new 908 RC concept is equipped with this display). Citroen and BMW are also working on this problem.

We are more close to an autopiloted car than to a flying vehicle at the moment. Autopilot’s ancestor is cruise control, and GM has recently invented a much closer to autopilot system. The new V2V system analyses the distance between car within 400 metres and controls the movement totally. Volvo is also moving in this direction: they have already created a vehicle ( Volvo YCC concept) which is able to pakr itself automatically.

Classes will also soon be history. Car manufacturers are forced to create cars which meet more then one class requirements. Compact 4wd crossovers will for example arrive in a while to compete with Suzuki SX4, Nissan Quashqai, and Renault Kaleos.

And of course we cannot but mention another widely spread tendency: a populaty of hybrid cars. The Japanese who were the first to adapt this technology in car industry are now being chased by the Europeans. Even today Toyota, Honda, Ford, and General Motors offer 7 hybrid car models, and in a while all the major car manufacturers will possess at least one model of that kind.

To sum up, here are six major tendencies of the car industry in the future:

  1. A bigger saloon with a smaller car dimensions.
  2. A system of communication between cars.
  3. A simple communication between a driver and a car.
  4. Aulopiloted vehicles.
  5. Vehicle wich possess different classes’ features.
  6. Hybrid engines.  

I think the biggest difference will be that there wont be enough petrol/gas for cars. Therefore they will have to be running on alternative fuels.

Hopefully cleaner and cheaper fuels.