Last year Mazda prepared three concepts for the auto show circuit, the Sassou, Senku and Kabura. This year we'll see three more concepts from the Japanese automaker, the first of which is the Nagare Concept. Its name is Japense for "flow" and the Nagare's design is supposed to capture the "spirit of motion". It's an age-old design mantra and holy grail for auto artists – make a car look like it's going fast while standing still. We'll leave it up to you to decide whether Mazda's Director of Design, Franz von Holzhausen (shown above showing off his baby), and his team succeeded.
Follow the jump for more analysis, live shots, press shots and Mazda's full press release.
[Source: Mazda]
The Nagare's front end looks like a Mazda RX-8 from 2020, while the long hatch body behind is an organic flow of curves accentuated by stripes that follow the current of sheetmetal like a riptide. It's an interesting car to look at it and when can waste a lot of time taking in every surface detail.
The Nagare's interior also features an interesting seating arrangement, with the driver placed front and center under the roof's highest point, and three additional passengers seated behind in a "wrap-around loung". Being a pie-in-the sky concept, the Nagare isn't necessarily a running prototype, but Mazda imagines it being powered by a hydrogen-fueled rotary engine.
The the Nagare is about as far from production as one can get, but Mazda tells us that the the next concept it will debut in Detroit could be ten years out from production, and the final one being debuted in Geneva could be produced "in the very near future." We think Mazda is one of few automakers that has successfully implemented a consistent design language across it's entire lineup (save for the B50 pickup and Tribute), so we're curious to see in Detroit where the company wants to go from here.
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