INFINITI Prototype 10
Here’s a model you’ll surely never be seeing on a road near you. But the styling of this prototype is simply magnificent, and on top of that it has Canadian origins. The Prototype 10 is the first project led by former Montrealer Karim Habib, a designer who also spent time at BMW.
This concept was developed over the course of a few months at INFINITI’s British design centre, and it actually foreshadows an eventual road vehicle rather than a philosophical representation of the future design direction at INFINITI. The design was inspired by the open-cockpit race cars used at the end of the 1960s, for example the Jaguar D-Type or any number of Maseratis and Ferraris.
There is one pretty big difference, though: instead of a roaring V6 or V8 engine, the Prototype 10 relies on… electricity. Who said that electric cars had to be ugly?
As it is now, the car is still really just a design study, and it won’t be heading to production. But it shows just what a designer can do when given the chance to really express themselves.
