If this conceptual race car was a reality, you'd find me at the racetrack a lot more often. Sponsored by Honda and the Indy Racing League, the objective of designer Tyler Mars's project was to create a new, eye-catching vehicle for the race. Well, mission accomplished.
The Honda IRL race car rests atop a hydrogen-powered "skate," and its sleek curves and airways reduce drag and help keep everything cool. Arrowhead-shaped stones were the inspiration for its aggressive shape, though it still features the same open-wheeled design that's been made classic in the Indy Racing League.
Tyler Mars received a BFA at the Industrial Design College for Creative Studies in Detroit "Car Capital" Michigan. Check out the gallery below for more of his Honda Indy racer.
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Tyler Mars, via AutoMotto
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By Log1c at 10:49 AM ON 06/27/08
XFX is a video card manufacturer. You sure this isn't just a press stunt?
Neato looking though.
By Valnor at 11:59 AM ON 06/27/08
Wow, the new batmobile!
If you took all the different models of batmobile, mix them togther and give it a diet then squeeze it into a size 0 skin, hey presto! the xfx
By aesthetictheories at 4:19 PM ON 06/27/08
My name is Tyler Mars and i designed this IRL car for Honda. The brief included picking a major sponsor of the car, i wanted to draw in a younger more tech-savvy crowd, so i used XFX...what can i say, i build computers also. no "press-stunt" involved, XFX doesn't even know of it's existence...thanks for the compliments!
By Muckracker at 4:37 PM ON 06/27/08
Very cool! Will there ever be a street version?
By PeteS at 8:26 PM ON 06/28/08
Tyler - awesome. A direct opposite of the current trend to make 'boxy' SUV's. We really could go hydrogen fuel cell if we had the collective will.
By mg5904 at 10:35 PM ON 06/28/08
Interesting design, Tyler. What made you go with a front engine?
" . . . though it still features the same open-wheeled design that's been made classic in the Indy Racing League." The "league" did not make the open-wheel design classic. Not by a very, very long shot.
irl - the answer to a question that was never asked.
tony george - Wanker of the highest degree.
By GreatGodPanDemic at 9:14 AM ON 06/29/08
I want to make love to this car. Wait, did I type that or just think it? Seriously, if this had been used as the design for the Mach 5 in the "Speed Racer" movie, I would have seen it - or, more than about 10 people would have seen it (the movie), for that matter.