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Pontiac Pursuit Prototype, the future is now - Metropolis.

youtu.be/ejx6xnyDCFg

Worth a watch at less than 4 mins.
Pontiac Pursuit Prototype, the future is now - craig-pd130

Heh, that's good. Many of the car's 'futuristic' features become a reality pretty quickly such as 4WS (which the Nissan 300ZX had in 1988/89) and satnav. The styling actually looked a bit like the early 2000s Honda Insight hybrid, too.

Pontiac Pursuit Prototype, the future is now - badbusdriver

Heh, that's good. Many of the car's 'futuristic' features become a reality pretty quickly such as 4WS (which the Nissan 300ZX had in 1988/89) and satnav. The styling actually looked a bit like the early 2000s Honda Insight hybrid, too.

In 1987 the Honda Prelude became the first production car to use 4WS (though Honda wisely decided to stick with a physical steering column rather than relying on electronics like the Pontiac!).

The Insight came out in 1999.

Pontiac Pursuit Prototype, the future is now - Metropolis.
Mazda released the first inbuilt GPS navigation system on the JDM Eunos in 1990.
GM released Guidestar 2 years later.

An interesting (although certainly not comprehensive) potted history of navigation systems here ndrive.com/brief-history-gps-car-navigation/

Edited by Metropolis. on 14/01/2022 at 19:21

Pontiac Pursuit Prototype, the future is now - John F

Funny how I miss none of its futuristic gizmos in my then seven year old - and now 41yr old - TR7. Probably the most useful prediction was its idea of the now obsolete integral sat nav!