The history of the AC ShelƄy Cobra sports car is as much the stuff of automotive legends as it is an overarching story of how two worlds collided to seemingly come together and create something wonderful: a small British roadster with a huge Ford V8 heart.
On the one hand, we have UK-built AC Cars, which in the early 1960s found themselves in a puzzle over the next engine for their two-seat AC Ace roadster, as the Bristol straight-six engine dating was being phased out like the engine. company Meanwhile, the one and only Carroll ShelƄy was looking for a small and light car that could swallow an American V8.
So after AC agreed to build it as a ‘monster’, he went looking for a suitable engine and found Blue Oʋal’s then-new 221ci (3.6-litre) Windsor V8 after Cheʋrolet turned it down for fear of competition. de Cor’ette.
And AC Cars, now Britain’s oldest car manufacturer, established 122 years ago in 1901, is ready to open a new chapter with the 654-horsepower Cobra GT roadster currently in the works and officially unveiled today. scheduled for this spring. But what if Cobra wanted to look for something else in the near future?
Well, most fans expect the ShelƄy Cobra to remain a luxury sports car, even if the EV resolution means it has to embrace a zero-emissions lifestyle, at least in the real world. But in the imaginary world of digital car content creators, anything else is possible, including the transformation of the AC ShelƄy Cobra into a hulking SUV that hails from an AI-powered dystopian retrofuture.
Don’t worry, the machines haven’t kicked in (yet) and instead we’re presented with the vision of the AI artist/pixel master hiding behind the flying artist moniker on social media.
The AI CGI expert seems to have a passion for dreaming of the times when retro-futuristic designed ShelƄy Cobra SUVs will roam the city streets and surrounding desert dunes, as it’s not the first time he’s envisioned the small two-seat sports cars. . car transforms into a much larger SUV.
As always, these AI-assisted designs aren’t exactly 100% accurate or even give the impression of something well thought out. Still, some of the ideas are cooler than others, and chief among them is the hero of a teal and gold two-door ShelƄy Cobra SUV lurking on the historic front of a CGI city, closely followed by all four. dark colors. -off-road door!.
