[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/latest-news\/the-mercedes-benz-vision-avtr-triggers-our-trypophobia\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/latest-news\/the-mercedes-benz-vision-avtr-triggers-our-trypophobia\/","headline":"The Mercedes-Benz VISION AVTR Triggers Our Trypophobia","name":"The Mercedes-Benz VISION AVTR Triggers Our Trypophobia","description":"A car inspired by Avatar the movie looks like something from a fever dream! This ghastly, yet beautiful, concept from Mercedes-Benz somehow manages to be a treat for our eyes and at the same time, send shivers down our spines. The design team have really outdone themselves this time, achieving a similar effect that a mullet has but in a car; business in the front and a vomit-inducing party at the back In a strange collaboration, Mercedes-Benz took inspiration from […]","datePublished":"2020-10-20","dateModified":"2020-10-20","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/author\/isabelle-lawrence\/#Person","name":"Isabelle Lawrence","url":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/author\/isabelle-lawrence\/","identifier":30,"description":"Max Wheeler is a leading motoring journalist and classic car specialist at Smart Motoring, renowned for his sharp insight and infectious passion for all things automotive. With years of experience covering motoring news, supercars, and the enduring legacy of classic cars, Max brings stories to life with style and authority. 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The name \u2018AVTR\u2019 is not just the name of the film spelt incorrectly but actually is an abbreviation for \u2018advanced vehicle transformation\u2019.The VISION AVTR, like the film itself, demonstrates an interaction between human, machine and nature and is said to be \u2018inspired by the world of Pandora\u2019 which is the fictional world in with Avatar (2009) was set and can be seen mimicked in the background of these photos.There are a range of absolutely wacky features in this car that people are likely going to look back at in 80 years time and laugh at, just at we do at concept cars of the 60s.For instance, there is four-wheel steering that doesn\u2019t just help with tight turning but also helps with \u2018crab walking\u2019 where the car looks like it\u2019s drifting because the car is travelling sideways at an angle whilst moving forward.There\u2019s no steering wheel in the car and no buttons or…well, anything. Just four seats and a very strange button\/joystick\/palm rest in the middle of the two front seats. This odd omnidirectional pad is how you drive the car. Move it forward to drive, backwards to break and if you twist it whilst going forward, it will start doing the awkward \u2018crab walk\u2019 that kind of looks like you\u2019re playing a glitched racing game.There are a lot of lights which do truly look like a spectacle to remember, much like the scene in Avatar where the forest illuminates. The wheels are an all-tyre design that also have lights on them and are based on the Woodsprites (the floating jellyfish-like creatures from the film) and also function as the side indicator lights!Of course, the most eye-catching feature on this \u2018car\u2019 if you can call it that, are the flaps at the back. Around 30 of these holes decorate the rear of the car and the flaps covering them can lift and pitch in different directions to display some sort of emotion, as if the vehicle were a scaly animal rather than a just a machine.Of course, I can\u2019t help think of all the trypophobia (a fear of small holes in things)\u00a0 photos that we\u2019ve seen when looking at this strange vehicle. Something about those holes on the back just makes me feel gross.Peripitus, CC BY-SA 4.0 https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDoes the VISION AVTR gross you out too? 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