Mazda Nagare

The Mazda Nagare was a concept car introduced by Mazda at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show as an exercise in natural and organic car design to explore the future of Mazda automobiles. Its name means flow, and the designers studied motion and its effect on natural surroundings. Laurens van den Acker, then Mazda's global design director, led the advanced design studio team in Irvine, California, with the main task of designing first and engineering later. It had a steeply raked windshield flowing into a glass roof, large wheels wrapped into the wheel wells, two double-length doors hinged forward like the wings of a butterfly, a central driver's seat and three rear seats in a wrap-around lounge. Mazda released no information about its engine.