Rolls Royce Vision Next 100 Self Driving Car 2016 Saturday, June 25, 2016 Hannah Elliott ...

Rolls Royce Vision Next 100 Self Driving Car 2016

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Hannah Elliott

Rolls-Royce has given us a glimpse of what the future holds — the Vision Next 100 concept.

The car contains a silk-swathed sofa (below) and is lined in wood. Pictures: Rolls-Royce

The car is so nuts that it’ll never make it to production in its current form. But that doesn’t make it any less interesting.

Rolls’s Vision Next 100 — a nearly 20-foot-long, five-foot-tall, fully autonomous coupe with the physical presence of a super yacht — is meant to embody the brand’s goals for the next 100 years.

It comes at the end of production of the seventh-generation Phantom and is part of a series of concept vehicles BMW Group developed to celebrate its centenary in 2016 and herald its next century of design and technology.

The company unveiled the BMW Vision Next 100 in Munich last March and a MINI concept earlier this month.

“With the Rolls-Royce Vision Next 100, we were mindful not to dwell on the past,” said Giles Taylor, Rolls-Royce’s director of design. “We wanted to be as innovative as possible and at the same time transcend the design history of the marque.”

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