The Icon Helios is a Californian Art Deco inspired dream machine packaged in a 21st century all-electric platform. The Icon Helios, was revealed to an audience in Oregon, where Jonathan Ward was presenting his vision for the future. “I’ve finally networked my brains with Elon Musk” he said, indicating that he’s hoping to use the Tesla Model X platform, with its selective all-wheel drive and 380-mile pure electric range, to sit underneath this stunning bit of design.
“It’s audacious, large, a five passenger car,” Ward explains. There’s burnished aluminum, exposed copper rivets, leather strapping and that bodyshape inspired by things like the DC-1 experimental plane from the ‘30s.
“One way or another, he revealed on Twitter, “I will build this car. Looking for the right client to commission it.”
“I’ve got a meeting with Ralph Lauren” Ward said last week, “but he doesn’t know that I’m going to make him buy this car. I think it’s up his alley, because his car collection is the holy grail.”
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