Design Project: MX-LIBRIS – Taxi for Latin American Cities

MX-LIBRIS – Taxi for Latin American Cities

New zero-emission taxi design concept for Latin America wins prestigious award

By Alex Ricciuti
December 11, 2008 7:12 PM
Filed Under: Artist Renderings, Awards, Design

The MX-LIBRIS, a taxi concept vehicle, has won the Red Dot Design Award, an international design competition.

The taxi was designed specifically for cities in Latin America by its creator Alberto Villarreal and the MX-LIBRIS took the Design Concept 2008 Award of the Red Dot competition with a styling that captures the aesthetics of public transport and, intentionally, not that of personal cars.

The taxi runs on fuel cells and makes use of drive-by-wire technologies, replacing mechanical components with electronic ones, to optimize space in the car. The taxi is a compact car with a large cabin area achieved by pushing its components to the extremities of the vehicle.

The intention of the design is to create something unique to Latin American cities and make the taxi a part of the landscape for tourists and visitors to enjoy.

The taxi will be a zero-emissions vehicle.

 

 

Source: red-dot.sg via cardesign

Comments

BabyMilo
December 11, 2008 10:45 PM
sorry but i cant see some fat hair guy driving around in one of these

jphxr
December 13, 2008 9:38 PM
Interesting design, but to me it seems like the driver would have a hard time seeing out the right side of the car, even if there is no passenger sitting in the way.

cmr
December 15, 2008 12:25 AM
Must be a mistake. I can belive that it is a "Red Hot Design Award"...nobody in the Jury is a car driver?. "Drive buy wire technologies" means that it is not necesary the view of the taxi driver?. The funtionality is realy ugly..the acces of the driver a torture, the bodywork dont have a minimun of resistence structure definition..as it seems at all over the proyect.Why not from the begining a three passanger taxi.. Really is a cero-design-emision vehicle.

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