Cool look, unusual doorways.
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Chrysler Idea 70X
First Proven: 1969 Chicago Auto Present
Description: Giant-car design train
Gross sales Pitch: “It’s two ideas in a single!”
Particulars:
First seen on the 1969 Chicago Auto Present, the Chrysler Idea 70X was a large-car design train most notable for having two doorways on the driving force’s facet, and only one door on the passenger facet. The idea integrated parts of Chrysler’s new “fuselage” design language, and although Chrysler by no means made this clear, was nearly actually constructed on the maker’s C-Physique large-car structure. The press launch known as the Idea 70X a “an thought automotive,” and referred to it as two ideas in a single.
The odd door association was made considerably odder by how they opened. Much like these discovered on fashionable minivans, the Idea 70X’s doorways open by sliding to the facet. The passenger-side door opened to the entrance of the automotive, whereas the driving force’s facet entrance door opened ahead, and the again door rearward.
An attention-grabbing technical function of the 70X was its sonar-based rear- and blind-spot detection system. If a car got here inside 50 toes of the 70X, a light-weight appeared on the within rear-view mirror.
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CG Says:
Love the look, query the utility. Whereas the sonar-detection system was an impressed harbinger of contemporary obstacle-detection programs, the door association was odd, and I’m fairly positive it was seen as odd again then, too. Nice trying automotive, and I’m kind of shocked it isn’t higher remembered.
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Chrysler Idea 70X Gallery
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