The Finns have made it clear that the French no longer own the market on beautifully bizarre concept cars.
Someone at Valmet Automotive — the contract manufacturer building the Fisker Karma — recently enjoyed a long, strange trip that included designing an electric vehicle for the Geneva Motors Show. An electric car that looks like a giant Roomba that melted.
It's called Dawn, which is about all anyone knows about it. Details are nonexistent — Is that blue disc up front an induction charger? — but details aren't the point. The point is Valmet, which has built cars for the likes of Porsche and Saab, wants everyone to know it's got an EV engineering division and it is making cars with cords "a strategic focus area."
To that end, Dawn serves as a demonstrator, integrating Valmet's expertise as a component developer and system integrator. Oh, who are we kidding? No one cares about that. It's all about the car, and on that score, Dawn is a winner.
Love it or hate it — and we must admit we like it — it's sure to get people talking. And isn't that what a concept car is supposed to do?
