Logicar by Jacob Jensen

I, too, once believed that having a multifunctional vehicle was the way to go. Past issues have featured the Mercedes-Benz Vario, the Urbanina Primavera, and Škoda Felicia Fun — all sassy, promising, but ultimately fruitless attempts at a transforming car.

Unless there’s some underlying reason (function, parts, cost) to choose a specific donor vehicle, for many years, the path of least resistance for Europeans was to modify a cheap Citroën 2CV to suit their requirements (I’ve written about this, it’s a whole thing).

“The Citroën 2CV is transcendent because it is the only car that has been every car.” - Michael Banovsky

To a product or industrial designer lacking experience with the auto industry, a car must look like an incredibly simple thing.

I say this, because if you’re watching closely enough, every few years an interesting automotive concept will come out of nowhere before evaporating back into nothing. Several of them I’ve written about.

With local safety and emissions regulations and (until recently) free trade agreements favouring incumbent automakers, plus the whole “engineering a car from scratch” item on the To-Do list, new ideas, cars, and automakers that last are rare for a reason.

Have you heard of the Logicar, from Denmark?