2020 Apple’s iMove Concept Hybrid Car

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The late Apple co-founder and consummate visionary, Steve Jobs, who helped to bring to life iconic gadgets like iPhones, iPods, and Mac computer didn’t want to stop there – he also dreamed of grabbing a slice of the car industry. An Apple board member, J.Crew CEO Mickey Drexler, revealed that he talked to Jobs about his desire to add a car to the company’s line-up at a recent interview during the Fast Company Innovation 

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

Uncensored expo held in New York. And while Jobs never actually got around to designing his vision of an Apple automobile, Drexler predicted that if he had, it would’ve dominated the industry much like his other hand-held products. But this wasn’t the first time that Jobs fanastized about what the Apple brand could be outside of the consumer electronics market; he re-imagined yachts, staircases, and even medical equipment, according to Drexler. Jobs even used his time undergoing medical treatment to design all sorts of things for Apple to build from his hospital room.

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

Since Jobs never penned his idea for a car, designers are left to envision what an Apple-branded car would be like, including 22-year old student Liviu Tudoran, whose three-seater iMove plug-in electric concept car packs in loads of Apple-inspired gadgets. A “photocromic” exterior allows the driver to change its color, a touch-screen display covering the entire dashboard charged by a solar front windshield, and a convertible roof that leaves the car shaped like a Mac mouse. While its no iCar, its still amazing to think about what could have been — or what is still to come

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

2020 Apple – iMove Concept

How would look like a car invented and designed by Apple? Italy based auto designer Liviu Tudoran has taken inspiration from the Apple Macintosh products and designed a concept car called iMove for the year 2020. This car will be electric, of course, and will feature the same general design lines like all the latest Macintosh products. Most of the car body is covered with transparent materials, so that even under the roof the driver get a cabriolet feeling. This transparent material is also a solar panel. iMove will be able to seat three passengers and will feature an innovative luggage storage space. The concept will also offer various possibilities for customization, so the owners will be able to change the car’s appliance according to its own preferences.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs riding a 1966 R60/2 beemer

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Maybe not breaking news nor any interesting spy photos, but seeing Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs riding a beemer has put a grin on our faces. BMW motorcycles stand for German ingenuity, engineering, long distance comfort, durability, understated but elegant designs.
While not as popular in the U.S. as brands like Harley Davidson, BMW Motorrad’s third largest market are represented by American consumers, with 9,168 BMW motorcycles registered in 2009.
Courtesy of Jalopnik, the photo below shows Apple’s then-and-current CEO, Steve Jobs, riding a 1966 BMW R60/2 motorcycle two years before even the original Macintosh was introduced. The picture was featured in the National Geographic Magazine

Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs


The R60 and R60/2 are 600 cc boxer twin BMW motorcycles that were manufactured from 1956 to 1969 in Munich, Germany. Some 20,133 of these 600 cc shaft-drive, opposed twin R60 (1956-1960, 28 hp), R60/2 (1960-1969, 30 hp), and R60US (1968-1969, 30 hp) were built. These models, except for those with the “US” designation, were designed primarily as rugged motorcycles to pull sidecars (mounting points were built in) and had duplex tubular steel frames.

The standard colors for these motorcycles was black with white pin striping, though special colors could be ordered. Indeed, the motorcycles could be ordered in any color that was being used at the time for BMW cars. A special case was Dover white. Michael Bondy, of the U.S.A. BMW importer Butler & Smith, sent BMW a can of that color paint, which was used on his 1942 Packard, and BMW duplicated it. He then ordered 50 motorcycles in that color.
Original prices for an R60/2


U.S. Price: $1,131 (1960) (2008 US$ 8217 after inflation) 
U.S. Price: $1,236 (1965) (2008 US$ 8428) 
U.S. Price: $1,364 (1969) (2008 US$ 8005) 


Engine
* Internal designation 267 / 5
* Type four-stroke, two-cylinder, air-cooled boxer
* Bore/stroke 72 x 73 mm


Cubic capacity 594 cc (34 in.3) 
Maximum power 30 HP at 5800 RPM 
Compression ratio 7.5 : 1 
Valves per cylinder 2 
Carburation system 2 Bing 1/24/125-126 od. 1/24/133-134 od. 1/24/151-152 
Engine lubrication forced-feed lubrication 
Oil pump gear pump 


Dimensions and Weights


Length x width x height 84 x 26 x 39 inches (2125 x 660 x 980 mm) 
Wheel base 55.7 inch (1415 mm; with sidecar 1450 mm) 
Tank capacity 4.5 US gallon (17 l) / optional 6.5 US gallon (24.6 l) 
Unladen weight, full tank 430 lb (195 kg; with orig. BMW sidecar 320 kg) 
Load rating 360 kg (with orig. BMW sidecaR600 kg) 


Performance


Idle/riding noise 81/82 DIN-phon (from June 1967: 74 / 95 dB (A)) 
Fuel consumption 47.0 MPG (ca. 5.0 l / 100 km) 
Oil consumption ca. 0.5 – 1 l / 1000 km 
Top speed 90 mph (145 km/h)

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