In the late 1950s, Chrysler sought an answer to the popular Corvette, which was eating U.S. auto manufacturers' high-end sports car breakfast. The task for designing the Corvette-killer fell to Virgil Exner, the industrial designer who would eventually become Chrysler's first Vice President of Styling. What Exner came up with was unconventional, to say the least.
His XNR concept resembled an assymetrical shark and took tailfins in an unexpected direction.
The lopsided car seemed designed for the driver to belittle his passenger, with a tiny vestige of a passenger-side window and even a hatch you could close over that side altogether, reminding your shotgun-rider which of you was literally in the driver's seat.
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