Nissan IDx Freeflow and IDx Nismo unveiled The IDx Nismo is straight out of Dukes of Hazzard, with numbers on the doors and muscle-car paint. Someone should teach Nissan the meaning of allusion. Nissan IDx Freeflow The designs came out of Nissan's studio in Paddington and the official spin is that this is a project to bring young people into a design office and "co-create" cars, which will allow them to fall in love with, erm cars again. This ubiquitous "young people are falling out of love with cars" line is something of a myth. They simply can't afford to buy new cars and they (like old people) have learned to get about in the city without the expense of owning a motor. Out in the sticks, young people still hanker after cars and the freedom they provide just as badly as they ever did. Nissan IDx Nismo So will the IDX twins be built? Andy Palmer, Nissan's executive vice president, has been speculating on the idea of a sports car, which clearly neither of these are (although we understand they are rear-wheel drive), but we think they'd do good business in America if they ever got made. We also understand the plans to build the completely bonkers Blade Glider concept are more advanced that you might think. Some journalists reported white knuckle drives in the Ariel Atom-based prototype, which was used to test the idea of this arrow-shaped four-wheeled vehicle which looks like something you could fold out of a napkin. Nissan Blade Glider concept car The mercurial Carlos Ghosn, Renault Nissan chief executive, was in town for Nissan's 80th birthday celebrations. In his speech he promised that Nissan would have an "affordable autonomous vehicle on sale by 2020," using technology which he said would be introduced across the company's car ranges within two generations. 2020 is the year that the Olympics return to Tokyo and Japanese car makers are getting very revved up with ambitious plans for the event. Toyota is also promising some sort of autonomous driving vehicles to at least be available by then.