- French luxury brand DS has unveiled its Aero Sport Lounge concept, a full-electric vehicle of SUV proportions.
- The concept is equipped with a 680-hp engine and a 110.0-kWh battery with a claimed range of just over 400 miles.
- Forget screens: infotainment is instead projected onto the car’s dashboard and works using gesture control.
French luxury automaker DS has been known to come up with impressive concepts that share minimal design cues from the current lineup, and the company does that again both on the exterior and described interior of the Aero Sport Lounge, an electric vehicle that adopts crossover styling cues.
DS has released a video of the concept, revealing a sleek crossover ahead of its scheduled debut at the Geneva auto show in early March. Sharp, thin lines frame the squared-off grille in the middle of which sits the DS logo. A screen surrounds the badge, which in the image of the vehicle is black with feathery white lines through it.
The headlights are narrow and there are slim vertical daytime running lights at the concept’s front edges. The two-tone silver and black hood and is accentuated by a narrow silver pinstripe.
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DS says that the vehicle is 196 inches long but gives no other dimensions. That’s just seven inches shorter than the 203-inch BMW X7. The concept boasts a 671-hp electric motor that draws from a 110.0-kWh battery with which DS claims more than 400 miles of range and a zero-to-62-mph time of 2.8 seconds.
Most innovative perhaps is the infotainment system, which doesn’t rest in a screen but is projected onto a satin/cotton strip running across the dashboard. A head-up display replaces an instrument panel, and hand gestures control all of it.
The video of the vehicle shows rear suicide doors and a sleek beige interior defined by simplicity. The steering wheel is a horse-shoe shape and as the vehicle lacks buttons or screens, is the only indication that the left side of the vehicle is where the driver sits.
This being a concept, DS does not stop there. Straw, which DS describes as both sustainable and luxurious, will be used through the cabin—because why not.
Although there isn’t any indication that any version of this concept will make it to production, some aspects of it could eventually make it to the U.S., as Peugeot has said that it intends to return to the U.S. market by 2026.
Source: Motor - aranddriver.com
