This article was taken from the February 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.
Daniel Simon created the stunning light-cycle in Tron: Legacy. But it's not the first futuristic vehicle conceived by the former
VW concept-car designer. Get a glimpse of travel on a distant world in these incredible, interplanetary earlier works.
In a galaxy not too far away, vehicles intended for road, sky and space are assembled from glass, rivets, turbines and tyres -- they could almost be real. Almost.
Before his work on Tron: Legacy, Simon worked in the automotive industry, interning at Lamborghini and creating dream cars for VW -- but the real flights of fancy (each complete with an elaborate back story, including fictional currencies, planets and fuels) are in his book Cosmic Motors: Spaceships, Cars and Pilots of Another Galaxy (Titan Books). Check out some of his designs in Wired's gallery.
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