Oldest source I could find: 1985 Nissan CUE-X - Concepts
Man I miss that aesthetic so much. Today's style is just too bland for me.
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Most cars in that era were insanely bland as well. And this particular image isn't even from a production car, it's a concept. If we are just looking at awesome exceptions from these days, then Honda E or Hyundai Ioniq 5 could make the list and you can actually buy and drive them.
I know it's a concept, and modern manufacturers wouldn't consider making a car with that style today anyway. I just wish there were more goods to buy that looked like they came out of Star Trek: TNG instead of the modern "sleek" design.
"Shut up!" They hated them because they spoke the truth.
Wow, a car stereo with a large display like that is surprisingly advanced for 1985! I wonder if this is really a CRT, or a multi-segment display made to look like one
It's a segmented display. Color display on consumer computers was to expensive at the time. because of the limited memory you could either have high resolution or few colors and low resolution, and high resolution was required if you need text.
My guess is that all displays have fixed segments and warning lights that can only be turned on or of.
Nissan loved to cram technology in their cars. See for example the GTR-34 in the 90s that has a full size LCD and real-time readouts on it, which was very usfule to tuners, hence it's prominence in the scene
That, plus the brilliant performance.
I had a 1988 Buick Reatta with a CRT in it. Only had one color in it though... Green....... Looked like a terminal from fallout. I miss that car.
To me, it has the fuzzy look of a low res mid 80s CRT monitor. It doesn't look like a VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display) to me, though I am pretty sure the clock may be one.
That’s fucking awesome. I’d love that console right now but with updated technology.
Requiring an airbag in the wheel basically rules out cool looking wheels like this. Rest of the cluster is certainly possible but the car companies want to do touchscreens over buttons since it’s simpler to install and replace one big screen that pull all the wiring out for one button that stopped working
I can live without the centre wheel stuff.
Wow that's so much worse...
Yeah, I like the first one.
This screams cyberpunk to me and I love it
Cyberpunk is the 2nd related aesthetic in Cassette Futurism page of the Aesthetics Wiki. There is some overlap.
Ah, explains why I'm so into cassette futurism or "vaporwave" lol
Yeah! Vaporwave, outrun / synthwave, retrowave, ... it's a bit of mess. Genre categorization is only useful up to a point :).
Everyone here is simping for the display, while this car had a CD player in 1985. Do you understand how wild that was?
It was pretty early! The first DiscMan came out in 1984 and I think the first aftermarket CD car stereo turned up the same year.
Nissan Trek: The Next Generation
That looks cool
It had a LASER RADAR!
LADAR!
This is more.pleasing than that Italdesign approach