Simca dream car Fulgur - back when today was still tomorrow
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In 1958, the Simca car company presented its vision of a dream car for the future, called the "Fulgur" (Lightning). The compact vehicle embodied the entire belief in the future of the time. Exhibited at motor shows and at the center of enthusiastic press reports, the Fulgur caused a sensation for a short time, then disappeared into oblivion again and even today, over 50 years later, much of what was envisaged back then is still pure dreams of the future or else material that makes us laugh. This report describes the Fulgur on the basis of press reports and documents from the time and shows the vehicle of the future in many historical photographs.
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A passenger car with an electric drive and a range of 5,000 km, which moves along the main traffic arteries at speeds of over 150 km/h without any steering commands from the occupants, seems like science fiction today. In 1958, however, it certainly took a lot more imagination to come up with such a vehicle. However, the Simca stylists, including Robert Opron, did just that, designing the dream car for the future at the end of the 1950s. The concept car was to be exhibited for the first time at the Paris Motor Show in the fall of 1958. Robert Opron had packed everything they could think of into the little car and what they saw as future-proof: remote control, radar screen, electric drive, atomic energy, electromagnetically controlled suspension, etc.
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