The remote control car loving child in all of us will be jumping for joy with Rinspeed to unveil and iPhone controlled car the iChange, next week. Removing the need for keys, total control of the car can be managed through your iPhone including starting the car, changing any setting and even the shape of the vehicle.

As simple as plugging in your tunes, your iPhone clips into a holder on the dashboard of the iChange. Once connected a green “start” button appears on the iPhone’s display and one push brings the iChange automobile to life reports Macworld. Not only offering a plug and drive system, the iChange can morph from a single-seater sports car to one with a taller roof that can accommodate two extra rear passengers, or really tall people. It also sports an all-electric powertrain and lithium-ion batteries with Rinspeed is claiming a 0-62 time of 4.2 seconds, putting it in the ballpark of the Tesla Roadster.

The iChange comes from designer Frank Rinderknecht of Swiss auto design house Rinspeed, the same Company who brought us last year’s sQuba diving car. It will be revealed as part of an electric car concept vehicle during the Geneva Motor Show next week. Loving the smooth design and futuristic wheel rim, my only thoughts are whether it will stand a test of UK’s BBC Team from Top Gear. The boys measured up the Tesla Roadster in 2008 as “an astonishing technical achievement…it’s just a shame that in the real world, it just doesn’t seem to work”, the sQuba as “impossible”. Discussing the iChange in 2008 as “something special” from Rinspeed, I can only hope the iChange can handle the Stig.

[via Gearlog]