FORM FREEDOM

摘要

Smooshed hips. No view. Awkward legroom: Nobody likes the middle seat. But Nissan's sleek, four-door electric IMs concept car, unveiled in January at the North American International Auto Show, transforms the miserable middle seat into a foldout throne. Queens and kings can even turn the seats on either side into jumbo armrests. The manufacturer's remixed seating hierarchy is one of the wilder expressions of what designers can do when they don't have to build a car around gas-no big engine up front means more space to play with.