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It is difficult to look more late 70s/early 80s than this car :)

But interestingly, the blue car behind it in this picture looks almost like the design of a modern city car from today to me. So that's where the real vision was?

http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/karin/images/005.jpg

EDIT: I might be wrong, I assumed the photo was from the 1980 Paris Salon show due to the article text above it, but it's probably from later. Oops.

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>t is difficult to look more late 70s/early 80s than this car :)

Anyone old enough to remember the UFO TV series?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(TV_series)

Just in case:

http://epguides.com/comics/shado/straker.shtml

http://epguides.com/comics/shado/foster.shtml

Indeed. It's also reminiscent of Death's "Pale Horse" in car mode, from Piers Anthony's novel On A Pale Horse.

That looks exactly like the Xsara Picasso of early 2000s.

Impressive. We live in 80s secret concepts ...

You could try the Aston Martin Bulldog, http://astonmartins.com/car/bulldog/

maybe that's a more recent photo from a Citroen museum...?

I think you're probably right. The headlamp shape leads me to believe that the blue car is a Citroen Xanae prototype (http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/xanae/xanae.html), an MPV prototype/predecessor for the Picasso.

Thanks for pointing out, I edited my comment to show the mistake. The article text above it and graininess of the photos really seemed to make them from 1980 :/

One dead giveaway are the A-pillars. Manufacturers back in the day didn't imagine we would have side curtains and double reinforcements in pillars today.

It's the Xanae concept car from 1994, that later inspired the Picasso.

http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/xanae/xanae.html

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