Decided to go looking for funny photos tonight, and stumbled upon some recent concept cars.  I am including photos only, but you can easily find these on the site I discovered them on, The Torque Report.

I have a particular affinity for concept cars, the source of which is probably the Father’s subscription to OMNI magazine when I was a kid.  One of the regular features was photos and accompanying articles about artists who had created futuristic versions of cars, airplanes, boats, furniture or even common household items like can openers.  Because the magazine was published by Penthouse magazine’s Bob Guccione, it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept vehicles often seemed almost erotic in form (if not function).

As I looked through the photos below, I was struck by how unimaginative many of the American, European and Korean cars look, compared to their Japanese competitors.  Perhaps that’s just my bias towards well made, reasonably priced vehicles.