Crazy DS X E-Tense: Two cars in one with 1,360 hp!

You get some very interesting results if you search 'OCD nightmare' on Google - crooked corridors, badly cut cakes, botched paint job or simply a picture hanging on the wall sloping two degrees too much to the left. And as a car designer, you'd imagine symmetry is your best friend. But not if you're the designer of the DS X E-Tense.

The company's vision of their 2035 car model has a design completely off the charts - there is no symmetry whatsoever. But then, besides OCD nightmares another set of words is a popular Google search - peace in chaos. What you're looking at here is basically two cars combined as one. The X E-Tense is a three-seat concept car with a single-seat racer on one side and a luxury saloon on the other.

Two kinds of cars demand two kinds of driving capabilities. Hence, the peak power output stands at 540 hp in road use, but in 'circuit' mode, the number climbs to a whopping 1,360 hp for race car appeal combined with suspension engineered by DS Performance, the technical team behind DS’s Formula E programme.

The chassis is built from carbon fibre for super lightness. The driver's side gets a scissor door, while the passenger side gets a double-length gullwing door. The exterior is unlike anything we've seen before. The front and tail lights are stunning, "light veil" curtains stretch across the asymmetrical front and rear aspects of the car.

Another original design element is the separation between the driver’s open cockpit and the passenger’s capsule, which can accommodate up to two people and is enclosed by an aerodynamic canopy.

It is rather breathtaking with a fragile yet sporty, asymmetric yet peaceful design. DS says that "new technology" makes the E-Tense "capable of recovering its original form after an impact". If we knew more about this technology, perhaps it would have made a better headline.