Futuristic Car Cutaway, 1940

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