For the Love of Chrome and Tail Fins

We just ran across this group of finalists and winners from the ’06 Michelin Challenge Design (wouldn’t that be better as “Design Challenge”?). There’s some really terrific work here in this large gallery, with each concept design getting the full treatment, with the names of the design firms, the country of origins, very thorough write-ups about each. All really cool. Though, have you noticed that every single concept car since around 1952 has kinda looked like these? They either look like they just got off the set of Tron and the designers wrote up briefs that just had two words: “rounded corners.”