Okay, who really wants to drive this? It looks like a sperm with wheels. Good God Man.

Future Concept of anything = Random guess that usually is waaaaaay off base.

Do we ever learn from the past?

Would the robot overlords allow that?

Maybe if you eat all of your capsule pill meals.

I actually kind of like this thing, aside from the sperm tail jutting off the back. It still looks better than a Prius though.

I'm still disappointed. When I read that the Aptera was appearing in a movie, I thought they were finally remaking Woody Allen's Sleeper.

It looks like a giant, mutant Sony AIBO

I'm thinking it's modeled after some kind of burrowing marsupial

WWJJBD? What would Jar Jar Binks Drive?

@CharlzR:
Who Wants Ju Ju Bees Damnit?

@SLRStarless: I would! I love the way this car looks. It looks like you're chaffeuring No.6 across the Village. Naturally I would prefer a little more oomph, but upgrading a serial-hybrid drivetrain's gotta be pretty easy. Can we say forklift motors? Oh yeah.

@CharlzR: COTD

"......like being starring....." ? I guess that new dream team is really working out. (It's just too easy to rip on the car itself....)

@kleinlowe: My brother is a cereal hybrid. He runs on Coco Puffs and Pop Tarts.

you just gotta love the + and - pedals..

I'd drive it. Cars have looked phallic for a long time; why not a sperm?

@iamverb: It'd be funny if the tail wiggled back and forth while you drove it. Well, funny until you passed that elementary school got all those dirty looks from the moms.

What you use when you run out of beercash@beercheck:

@Flat4: Never, ever, run out of beercash.

Scotty, you have the con! Spock, Bones, Guy in red shirt whose gonna die in the next ten minutes....You're with me in the giant sperm!

i have more trouble believing they will sell this for under $30k than believing the Volt will sell for under $40K....

although, supposedly it'll weigh around 1500 pounds, so it could be fun with 'Busa power and a real rear tire...

So that's how you market an alternative vehicle without outrageous claims.

I like it. I could see myself driving one. The styling is like Cessna meets Karmann Ghia meets Piaggio Mp3 meets Citroen DS. Yeah ok sign me up. I could see this being the next Prius and making the Chevy Volt seem like a real late contender.

The first installment of "Better know an aptera type 1"

/the fightn' first!

@SundaySunday: Would have looked way better than the funny gizmos they had. the suspension was all wrong and blew the whole illusion that they were supposed to be floating on air.

I immediately reach for the Vaseline when I hear the word "responsible!"

I, for one, have complete love and faith in this thing. With as much aerodynamic drag as the windshield wipers on my car, I can't see why anyone doesn't love it. It actually makes sense.

Why do I get the feeling the Chris dude in the video is never going to fit in the thing?

Personally I'd like the tadpole motif paint option on mine. Actually a photoshop contest for this car would be fun, featuring paint themes or other physical modifications. Let's go Aptera!

A role in Star Trek... hmm, let's see...
A few hundred years from now, the great, great, great-to-the-nth grandson of Murilee Martin is a cadet at the Starfleet Academy, Alameda campus, along with his pal Jimmy Kirk.

One weekend the two transport to a pick-a-part wrecking yard in the east bay area. There, off to one corner, is an antique Aptera Type 1 up on blocks, waiting to be disintegrated. It's just begging to become someone's project car, so the boy buy it for a few hunded credits and arrange to have it transported to the Martin family ancestral Alameda bungalow...

So where do I mount my wing and coffee can muffler?

@charles_barrett:
After graduating from the Starfleet Academy, Murilee Martin's great, great, great-to-the-nth grandson contributed to a hyperblog, "Jaloptrek", and founded a very popular and entertaining series he called DOTGO (Down On The Geosynchronous Orbit), where he would post holos of antique satellites, orbital platforms, and other 'craft from centuries past. It became so popular, he got holos from other hyperbloggers, of similar detritus found within their own planetary systems...

"Less moving parts"? Does PR boy mean "fewer"? What a load of marketing baloney. Who would want to be t-boned in that sucker - it looks like a death trap.

Less ground contact is a good thing? Maybe from a rolling resistance standpoing - but when one is interested in turning or stopping, I would like a bit more than that thing has.

What a pathetic excuse for transportation, unless you are moving up from a moped.

Point. Not poing. Poing is the sound your head makes bouncing off the side window when you slam the door.

actually the track is decieving, if you imagine it as the same width as most cars it could be cramped, but it's a whole lot wider, there's oodles of space.

This thing is kick-ass. It has many advantages going for it over the Prius and Volt. Three wheel trikes, with mono rear wheel work very well.

I told them they could have my $500 deposit as soon as they sold it in Texas, with a diesel-'lectric hybrid PP, versus the backward thinking gas-electric that is only for sale in CA.

Given the pedestrian-friendly directives in Europe, I don't think this is very compliant with those. In fact, I think it's as diametrically opposed to them as you can get.

How wide is the distance between the two front wheels?

I can see bad drivers breaking the axles on these in parking lots, wrapping around lampposts, etc...

The burlap steering wheel will get filthy in one week, as well as torn off.

I think we need to wait for a Version 2, before production can occur.

@charles_barrett: Charles, you are my Captain Kirk!

It looks like a gay fashion statement.

@POLAЯ SAYS EVEЯYONE HEЯE: Thank you kind sir...! I felt I could blend Star Trek with a hat-tip to Murilee for all the junkyard, PCH, and DOTS joy he has brought us.

Less tire contact with the road! Sweet... so now I'll be more efficient while I slide into that family of six!