The iPod of cars

As a boy I was totally fascinated with cars and in my drawings I designed and redesigned every aspect of them - the interior, exterior, how it worked etc. And now there's an open designcompetition about a future volkswagen car. Of cource I want to take part of it. The question is how does a near future car look like? My hope is that it looks like a bicycle and I believe that's going to be reality for many people in urban areas, cause the cost to have a car will increase dramatically as a result of the energy crisis that probably will occur. The cost of parking will probably increase aswell when the urbanisation make cities more denser, but that also mean that the need of the car also will decrease. So in cities cars will probably be more expensive and less of a necesity and that will probably lead to a car-pool boom. But how does a car-pool-car look like?

I think there's a need for a new type of car class - a car designed to be shared. A car to be romanticised as an icon, a car that becomes the new symbol of freedom.