Volkswagen Futura

The Volkswagen Futura is a concept vehicle developed by the German car manufacturer Volkswagen and presented in 1989 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Volkswagen imagined it as an idea of where the automobile could be 10 to 15 years in the future, and it carried an electric parking brake, four-wheel steering, a fully automatic anti-lock system, an on-board computer and automatic parking. Its engine was designed to be as economical as possible, a 1,715 cc straight-four with a G-Lader supercharger, and it had no radiator, using a newly engineered evaporative cooling system. From many angles it resembled a shortened MPV, though it had two seats and gull-wing doors.