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Honda P-NUT (photos)

Concepts were few and far between at this year's LA Auto Show, but Honda brought out the Southern California-designed Personal Neo Urban Transport, or P-NUT for short.

Wayne Cunningham
Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began covering technology and the Web in 1994 as an editor of The Net magazine.
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With the influx of new city cars such as the Honda Fit, Honda's Advanced Design Studio looked beyond current models to come up with a concept for what a future city car would look like. The result? The Personal-Neo Urban Transport, or P-NUT.
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The P-NUT is designed to have its propulsion in the rear, with a variety of motive units possible from a small internal combustion engine to an electric motor.
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The large windscreen area gives the P-NUT driver excellent visibility. The driver sits alone in front, while two rear seats can accommodate passengers or fold up for cargo space.
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The concept is intended to also have a head-up display, taking the place of a traditional instrument cluster.

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