Imagine it’s 1936 and you’re a Japanese engineer with a passion for sleek aircraft and fast automobiles. Imagine you’ve just seen, for the very first time, a low-slung Mercedes Benz W25 grand prix racer, one of the original Silver Arrows. And then imagine what you’d want to do next. Infiniti has turned that thought experiment into reality with the intriguing Prototype 9.
On the surface, the Infiniti Prototype 9 seems little more than a whimsical what if, a designer’s doodle made into metal, maybe even a brazen attempt to build a creation legend for an automaker that didn’t even exist until a half a century after the era that defines its form. But like a samurai sword, the Prototype 9 is an object made up of hidden layers, wrapped in meaning.
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