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Concept cars by their very nature are teasers. Maybe the splashy prototype a given automaker rolls out onto the auto-show circuit will make it into production and maybe it won’t. That’s why they are called concepts in the first place.
If the exotic piece some designers and engineers created receives seriously bad reviews, that vehicle can die a peaceful death without getting pummeled in the marketplace.