Say hello to my next car. The Renault Mégane Coupé Concept, unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, is a high-tech automotive masterpiece.
The most striking element, obviously, is the “dragonfly wing” doors, which open vertically and resemble the wings of, er, dragonflies. The car uses your mobile phone (a Samsung F700, to be precise) to unlock the doors and start the ignition as well, making it even more problematic for those of us with a tendency to lose our phones.
newVideoPlayer("ReanultGermany_gawker.flv", 475, 376);The slo-mo car ballet has been an effective advertising technique for years, but you don’t often see those synchronized cars crashing into each other. Not so in this German Renault commercial, which builds up to some pretty spectacular wrecks. I don’t speak German, so I don’t know what it says at the end, but I assume it’s something like “Our cars look awesome when they crash.” [Neatorama and Jalopnik] More »
