Renault teaches the 4 how to fly for its 60th birthday — autoblog.com

Renault is celebrating 60 years of the 4, one of its best-selling and most emblematic models, by turning it into a flying car. It teamed up with a design firm named TheArsenale to build a functional prototype called Air4 that explores what the hatchback could look like in 60 years. We're promised that the Air4 is "not a concept nor a joke." Completed in under six months, it consists of two main components. The first is the body, which is unmistakably shaped like the 4. It has no doors, and several styling cues (such as the lights on both ends) have been brought into the 21st century, but it nonetheless looks a lot like the hatchback that remained in production without receiving significant visual changes for over 30 years. The entire body tilts forward — just like the real 4's hood — to reveal a simple cabin with only one seat.

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