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Concept cars are born when an engineer’s imagination takes flight to a level where no limitation exists to restrict him from creating a masterpiece. Concept cars are actually prototype vehicles that are exclusively deigned for showcasing an innovative concept, style, design, and technology.

Concept cars are not mass produced unless they are approved by a large number of consumers. Car manufacturers only after verifying the reaction and feedbacks of the consumers with respect to looks, style, design, technology, and other radical changes move ahead with the mainstream production of these cars.

Some of the concept cars are revamped before mass production, other undergoes minor changes and some are not even produced for public use. Those that do not undergo production gradually fade away from the market as well as from the minds of car enthusiasts except some that are exceptionally beautiful and exotic.

Different car manufacturers use different materials to design their concept cars. Most of them use non-traditional, exotic, and cheap materials like carbon fibre, plants, fabric, and even paper. There are some who use refined alloy to deliver unique car layouts. Some of them even give special attributes that are never found on cars and are just impractical when it comes to production.

Unfortunately, because of the impractical and unprofitable materials used for designing, some of the cars just vanish with the passage of time. Very few among an ever escalating list of concept cars actually get converted into fully drivable cars with a working drivetrain.

If these cars put into production, they often borrow the drivetrain from any production vehicle owned by the same company designing the concept car. However, the drivetrain can be refined and modified to eliminate certain defects and imperfections.

Concept cars play a vital role in the automotive industry. They form a dreamy vision of the future car industry. Concepts are mainly used by car designers and car manufacturers to determine public opinion or consumer’s reaction to an innovative, unusual, and weird design. If the public exhibits positive response for the models, they go for mass production and if they show a negative response, manufacturers drop the idea of rolling them on roads.

Car manufacturers go beyond imaginations and boundaries of production technique to showcase their advanced technology and imaginative concept. They experiment or perform styling exercises to gain public attention and make a firm decision of what to roll out next.