Make: Kia
Model: Sidewinder
Concept year: 2006
Production year -
Engine: Natural gas
The Kia Sidewinder was one of the entrants into the 2006 Los Angeles Auto show's 'LA Adventure' design competition. A competition in which the participants chose an activity available in the southern California area, and then designed a vehicle for that purpose.
Designed at the Kia America Design Center by Marc Mainville, the Kia Sidewinder concept is intended as an environmentally friendly vehicle for drift-racing, a California adventure because Los Angeles was the scene of the first officially sanctioned American drifting event.
Power for the Kia Sidewinder comes from a compressed natural gas turbine, which supplies electricity to a series of in-wheel, high torque, electric motors.