Simca Fulgur concept car 1958

grobmotorix · April 28, 2007, 06:08:48 AM

Can anyone tell me something about that?

SeaLion · April 28, 2007, 07:02:56 AM

It is the Simca Fulgur from 1958. It should have 2 rear electric motors and an inboard electronic brain with an auto pilot system that commucated with a central control tower. At high speed the electricity would be transfered from the road by induction and at speeds over 150 km/h the front wheels would retract. And so on and so on ...

Otto Puzzell · April 28, 2007, 07:27:38 AM

Wow - a quick ID of a car I've never seen before.

grobmotorix · April 28, 2007, 09:26:57 AM

I´m stunned, too!!!

well I´ll move it now, but I don´t think many others would have known this intantly.

SeaLion - my deepest respect...

Motorace · May 02, 2007, 02:22:40 AM

And I thought it was a short-wheelbase Fouga Magister

GRAYWOLF · May 02, 2007, 10:29:46 AM

Quote from: SeaLion on April 28, 2007, 07:02:56 AM
at speeds over 150 km/h

That comes out to 25MPH, right!!!

Otto Puzzell · June 05, 2011, 04:19:09 AM

period pic

qwaszx · June 05, 2011, 07:23:24 AM

Design by a young Robert Opron, father of Citroen GS, SM...

grobmotorix · June 06, 2011, 12:21:09 PM

I´ve never seen a side view before - now I know why...

grobmotorix · February 05, 2012, 05:35:48 PM

A police checkpoint scene shows how spectecular the design must have been in 58:

Oguerrerob · February 13, 2012, 06:53:18 AM

Rear view

grobmotorix · February 13, 2012, 07:07:31 AM

They should have changed the front end into the rear, and the rear to the front, really...

Otto Puzzell · February 13, 2012, 09:39:06 AM

Add some headlights, remove the wing, and the rear would look like the front of a Pontiac Grand Am, circa 1973

grobmotorix · February 13, 2012, 01:32:45 PM

Another rare photo:

grobmotorix · April 10, 2013, 02:07:48 PM

A 1959 photo:

Otto Puzzell · September 10, 2016, 05:26:15 AM

One more period pic.

Oguerrerob · November 10, 2016, 02:03:20 AM

Ticketing

grobmotorix · November 10, 2016, 02:07:14 AM

Brilliant

grobmotorix · November 10, 2016, 02:09:06 AM

There even was a Fulgur brochure:

Oguerrerob · November 10, 2016, 02:16:12 AM

Apparently some people bought it!!

grobmotorix · May 04, 2018, 03:28:19 PM

A wonderful scale model shown at fairs back then:

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Simca Fulgur concept car 1958