1986 Oldsmobile Incas was a spaceship ahead of its time

This is the 1986 Oldsmobile Incas concept by Italdesign.

Everything about it is unique and carefully crafted to give it a retro-futuristic, spaceship-esque look.

In a way, the car was also way ahead of its time.

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It was sketched by the brilliant minds, or perhaps we should say hands, behind Italdesign, which is a branch of Giugiaro, the same design studio that gave us the gorgeous Bizzarrini V12 supercar concept.

Italdesign often operates under its own brand, sometimes on production cars.

Not long ago, the design studio created a limited-edition version of the GT-R.

That’s the case with this car, but one thing about it that’s a bit strange is this car has two virtually identical twins.

A trio of odd but gorgeous concept cars

The Incas draws it inspiration from the 1984 Ford Maya, which was also created by Italdesign.

In turn, the Ford Maya was inspired by the Lotus Etna, a virtually identical concept car also unveiled two years prior, in 1984, also by Italdesign.

For whatever reason, Italdesign apparently decided to create three extremely similar concept cars using three different brands.

Go figure.

The ground-breaking features of the Oldsmobile Incas

A lot of the features that characterize the Incas were not exactly common in 1986.

For starters, the car had gullwing doors at the back, while the front doors were hinged to the dome-style front section of the car.

In other words, you had to lift the entire front section to open the front doors, which is perhaps impractical, but cool.

Inside, it had the sort of yoke you’d expect to find in a fighter jet, bucket seats and the horn button on both sides.

Unfortunately, like so many other similar concept cars, the Incas was just a design studio, and production was never on the cards.

Pity.