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The Automotive X-Prize competition is jumping the gun this year and will be unveiling all 43 entrant at the Detroit Auto Show next month. This is big news for the entrants because it will allow surveying of the competition three months prior to the actual beginning of the $10 million competition in March at the New York Auto Show.
X-Prize began as a somewhat farfetched competition to build space-bound aircrafts, but it has since evolved into many sub-categories, one being an automotive grouping that requires clean, efficient and most importantly, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 mpg. The actual X-Prize Automotive competition pits each vehicle through rigorous tests evaluation all aspects of the vehicle.
Pictured above is Aptera, what us gamblers would call the "lock" for the prize. Aptera is a $30,000 electric plug-in and plug-in hybrid capable for 300 mpg. [Click On Detroit]
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There's all the proof you need that our environment needs help, because I'm quite sure that's some mutated amphibian. Hopefully, it can't breed.
So that's what it looks like when angels crap.
At least you'd only have to hear smartass comments at the gas pump once every 6 weeks or so.
someone tell this guy that his wings on his plane fell off...
I saw this in PopSci the other day. According to them you may need a motorcycle license to drive one. As if I would be seen in this instead of my bike.
So, Aptera's terd-on-wheels marks the beginning of a new era in the automobile industry. Fuck.
So this is what Piper Aircraft employees do in their spare time?
Where do I put my golf clubs?
it kinda looks like a POKEMON
Aptera I choose you....umm not really
A huge rolling sperm, yea thats a chick magnet
I like it. It's totally different from the other cars (vehicles?) you see on the road today. While Chevy and Ford are trying to relive their glory days (ala Camaro and Mustang) this company is trying to create something new. Also, it better go really fast.
A latter day Dale, minus the transvestite CEO-Inventor.
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, New York Auto Show, Hybrids/Alternative, GreenThe New York Auto Show in March will provide the official venue to launch the Automotive X-Prize contest, but all 43 entrants will be making an advanced appearance next month in Detroit at the North American...
@TinaChow:
Totally. I wonder if the Aptera has a plywood frame and a used washing machine motor too.
Actually, I kinda do like the look of both cars, not too sure about the Aptera's tail, but the rest of it has kind of a 1960s retro futurist look to it.
The 20th Century Dale was a good looking car too, a shame it all wound up as a scam, but companies making those kind of pie in the sky promises with nothing to back them up have a habit of working out that way.
Hello. I'm an electric car. I can't go very fast or very far, and if you drive me, people will think you're gay.
@STR8SIX: I love mole man; or the just the voice of mole man in this case.
If it was powered by raw fish they could have named it Shamu
Oh, wait. It doesn't fly?
@STR8SIX: I don't know a self-respecting homosexual who would trade in their Wrangler for this. Think more along the lines of pussy-whipped hippy boy whose wife refuses to shave her legs.
@Spence: Holy crap I KNOW that guy! But he's going to have a hell of a time selling enough Frappacino's to afford $30k
@Spence: This car stands out more than the Prius. If it goes to production, it won't be homosexuals driving it, but the smug, image conscience, environmentalists. And where do you live that gay guys still drive Wranglers? In the DC area, they seem to drive Mini Coopers, Bimmer 3 series, and Beatles.
@STR8SIX: typo: beetles
@STR8SIX: Louisiana, so, yeah. But I'm frequently in gaytown, and you are generally right about Mini Coopers. Audis are also perennial favs, and Volvos for some reason. The gay hardcore treehuggers I know usually stick to bio-diesel.
@STR8SIX: I have two friends that I get together with every so often for lunch. One drives a BMW 3-series four-door, his partner drives a 3-series convertible, I drive a MBZ E320 sedan, and the third guy just traded his New Beetle in on a Mini Cooper S. And yes, we're all gay, living in L.A.
@Spence: Gay Hardcore Treehuggers?
Garage Rock Band Name Of The Day
@Charles_Barrett: Ha! How did this post turn from a contest for vehicles that could potentially reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil into cars that gay guys drive. I wasn't knockin' bimmers, minis, beetles, or their drivers. I was knockin' environmentalists, however.
@Rust-MyEnemy: Gay hardcore treehuggers stick to the veggie greasers, cuz they're already so familiar with the crisco* and whatnot.
*Don't ever actually attempt to use crisco as a sexual lubricant.
@STR8SIX: Thread digression is what makes Jalopnik interesting, as long as the zigs and zags are reasonably well documented. My comment was merely to confirm that I am living out a life that is stereotyped even as I live it... kinda Seinfeld-ish. Absolutely no offense meant nor any taken... the launching point was really over how ugly the pictured car is, and there's only so many ways to say "ugly".
@Spence: Dude, a Gay Public Service Announcement as a blogging footnote! (...and if Crisco kills, I'd have died years ago).
@STR8SIX: Dude, you brought up the
gay. I had to defend my peeps!
@Charles_Barrett: It won't kill you, but it will remind you of a certain former Senator from the great state of Pennsylvania.
@Spence: You're right, I did bring up the gay. That line was from a Simpsons episode where the Simpsons went to Epcot Center and Homer and Bart went on the electric car ride. Every time I looked at that car, Mole Man's voice kept saying those words in my head. Come on, that car didn't remind anyone else of that episode?
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