Pivo 2 Concept CarCrankyRants.com - No, that’s not a new super round fun robot toy for the kids this holiday season… it’s a car. A vehicle with which you can weave about the highway and swap paint with massive trucks and SUV’s and mini-vans that would gladly eat this little morsel for brunch. 

The Pivo 2, recently unveiled by Japanese manufacturer Nissan, is a battery-powered concept car with a fully rotating cabin that makes going backwards obsolete, since the driver can turn to face the direction they need to go.

Its wheels also turn 90 degrees, making parking easier. In fact it’s practically small enough to bypass parking altogether and simply drive it into your office, onto the elevator… rotating the cabin to discuss the days agenda with co-workers, before pulling out into the hallway and down towards your cube. 

Granted most concept cars rarely make it into production resembling their predecessors, you need only look at the Smart Car on any European street to see that micro-cars like this would do well. Just keep in mind that most truck drivers will register only minor annoyance at the spilled coffee resulting from the slight kerkunk of your mobile speed-bump passing cleanly beneath their 18 wheels of steel.

Passenger-side airbag though. So that’s a plus.