In 1940, it was asked if we might be driving a car like this in only two years.
The novel cutaway turned the notion of how to design a car on its head: streamlined to look like “a giant aerial bomb on wheels,” with the engine in back, driver in the center, and rear passengers resting on upholstered seats in a spacious area as comfortable “as a small living room.”
Source: Popular Science June 1940
