Topic: Voisin Voiture de l'avenir, 1934

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this car?

[hermanoto]

Voisin, three-track project. "Voiture de l'avenir", presented at the Paris Salon, 1934. Six seater, driver in the center.

Sources: 1.Stromlinienauto's in Europa und USA, Aerodynamik imPKW-Bau 1900 bis 1945. (Ralf Kieselbach). Book shows line-drawings and gives short description.
2. Automobilia No 9, toutes les Voitures Francaices 1935, Salon 1934 (Rene Bellu). Pictures of scale model & description design & history.


My comment: Later on Philippe Charbonneaux ('Ellipsis' project), Pininfarina (Projects "X',1960; 'Y', 1962) and others were experimenting with three-track cars

[grobmotorix]

Very good!

But I´m not sure if you should reveil your sources here.

And yes, the diamond wheel pattern has been used many times.

One of the earliest was the 1901 Sunbeam Mabley and one of the latest was the 2007 Sbarro Assystem city car: