March 2, 2009BACK TO THE FUTURE: Part Deux

When Back to the Future: Part II came out in November 1989, I had just entered Kindergarten, Chicago’s Look Away was the number one song on the Billboard charts, and the Reebok Pump had just been launched.

In keeping with the Back to the Future theme I have going (unintentional, but a happy accident), I happened upon THIS the other day (thanks to my scouting friend, AD).  It’s a concept for a flying Audi and it’s pretty darn cool.  

The Audi Shark concept was conceived and designed by Kazim Doku, a Turkish car designer about whom I could find very little.  His rendering of a two-seater flying Audi sports car took home top honors at the most recent Domus Academy and Audi Group sponsored Desire Design Competition, a contest that challenges participants to press the boundaries of automotive design and conceive of creative and forward-thinking vehicles.  Winners (3) are awarded scholarships for the car design program at Domus Academy (a prestigious Italian design school).

We are only six years away from 2015, the year that Marty and Doc travel to in Back to the Future Part II.  The 2015 world depicted by Robert Zemeckis is one where automatic sneaker laces, hoverboards, and flying cars are commonplace.  So far, we are one for three: last year Nike issued the Air McFlys, a version of the noteworthy sneaks depicted in Back to the Future, thereby making automatic laces a reality.  Hoverboards have yet to be invented, however, and flying cars seem a long way off, though perhaps Doku’s design suggests otherwise…?