4 sci-fi film vehicles that are too good to be true

Audi Fleet Shuttle Quattro – Ender’s Game

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Vorsprung durch Technik, or “Progress through technology,” is Audi’s philosophy – and boy, do they take it seriously.

The Audi Fleet Shuttle Quattro is Audi’s first attempt at creating a completely virtual car from mind to paper to screen, without ever leaving a single tyre mark on the streets – except for the fictional roads in Ender’s Game.

Evolving the design language seen in the Audi RSQ featured in I, Robot (see below), the Fleet Shuttle Quattro features understated green lighting, smoked glass and the mark of every futuristic car, gullwing doors. Although we’ve only seen glimpses of the Fleet Shuttle Quattro, we’re expecting it to pack some epic futuristic gadgetry under its hood – and hopefully some kit that future real-world models can emulate.

Bugatti – Elysium

In Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, the lucky one percent got to live on an orbiting space habitat while the rest of humanity was left to slum it on Earth in a dystopian hellhole. Naturally, luxury brands like Armani and Versace figured heavily – but who cares about the fashion? It’s the flying Bugatti that everyone’s got their eyes on.

Blomkamp reached out to the luxury brands featured in the film – not for product placement, but to enhance the realism of the film’s future setting. After all, as he told the Wall Street Journal, “If you had a bunch of rich people living up there, they would have the equivalent of Ferraris and Bugattis that they fly around with. Basically, what I wanted to do was make a Bugatti that’s 150 years in the future, and those don’t come with wheels.”