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One Wheel On My Audi - The Audi Snook

Recently, we found a very interesting article in the NYT on one of Audis up and coming designers and his radical one wheeled designs that won this year’s Michelin Challenge Design Award at the Detroit Car Show.

Designed by German Tilmann Schlootz, the Audi Snook Concept is a unique and original personal mobility vehicle that rides on a sphere implementing the principle of agility through instability from aerospace technology, offering a completely new driving experience and a variety of new manoeuvres, the Audi Snook concept can go sideways, backwards and also turn on a point.

Inside the Audi Snook showing 1 and 2 seat versions

The Audi Snook combines driving fun with the demanding needs of future urban mobility and is described by its designer Tilmann Schlootz as the: “two billiard balls standing on each other.”

Whist this is a very radical design concept looks like the sort of thing that a bond villain would use to arrive at his underground volcanic lair - the concept of how the vehicles stabilise themselves has been proven with the Segway.  I suspect a practical vehicle will need some form of popout stabilizers to allow it to be parked with the power off and I think the name needs a little work - Audi .25 maybe.

About The Designer of the Audi Snook

Tilmann Schlootz was born in Frankfurt, Germany and studied industrial design at the Academy of Art and Design Offenbach after basic studies in mechanical engineering at the TU Darmstadt.

He was in the student team in partnership with Honda and created the OFX motorcycle design, which won two Intermot Design Awards 2004.

In 2006 Tilmann Schlootz won the Michelin Challenge Design Awards with the two mono-rubbertrack-vehicles Baal and Hyanide, supported by Edag. He currently works at Audi Design.