Daewoo's Vision for the Next Millennium

Daewoo responds to the new millennium with Mirae. This concept car has brought out the best in Daewoo design with features that recognize the future customers' concern for safety, economics and the environment. Mirae, Daewoo's newest concept car created at Daewoo Worthing Technical Center, responds to transportation needs for the future and showcases the thinking, design and technology that will take Daewoo into the next millennium.

Designed Around You

Mirae is an all-new car developed on an all-new platform, created to appeal to the car buyer of 2010. A totally new concept, it combines the fun and sophistication of a sports car with enough space and practicality to accommodate a young family or a couple who enjoy sporting lifestyles.

It meets an obvious need. Over the years, a growing number of practical cars have evolved to embrace higher performance. Now the performance car has evolved to offer practicality without compromising driving excitement.

Adopting Daewoo's 'Designed Around You' theme, Mirae has been created to provide the driver and passengers with the ultimate driving environment. Clever packaging and interior modularity create the maximum amount of useable space and passenger comfort within compact exterior dimensions. Adapting techniques found in MPV-type vehicles, Mirae has flexible seating which can be repositioned or removed altogether, allowing the car to be tailored to suit every individual journey.

The cockpit features re-configurable, switchless technology which allows the customer to tailor the dashboard to suit his own individual needs, tastes and even his moods. Using advanced digital camera technology, the system--called ACTIVE, an acronym for Advanced Camera Technology in Vehicle Ergonomics--detects the position of a driver's hand or finger and uses this information to initiate the controls.

Concept cars have many roles. They allow a glimpse 'behind the scenes' and provide pointers to the way a car company is thinking about the future. They provide stimulating talking points to the world at large and provide equal stimulus to that company's own design and engineering staff.

Mirae responds to changing customer needs and demands. Research shows that people have more leisure time than ever before. Sports such as snowboarding, skiing, wind surfing and mountain biking are becoming increasingly popular, but an important element to each sport is bulky equipment--equipment that today's sports cars simply cannot accommodate. Mirae, which has been 'Designed Around You,' can.

Mirae also gives a positive view of the future of personal transportation. Simply, the need for personal mobility can never be fully satisfied by public transportation alone. And while the car of the future must be environmentally aware, economic and safe, Mirae shows that it can still be fun.

Underlining its role as a prototype for the next millennium is its very name: Mirae is Korean for 'Future.