Awesome! A car that shits Segways!

Is that first photo the back of Lutz's head?

I think i just heard Woz cream his jeans.

would that not be THE definition of 'junk in the trunk'?

It should charge the segways too.

If I had that car, I'd get a bumper sticker that read something like:
"Eatin' Fords - sh*tin' Segways"

This reminds me of those little plastic toys where a chicken poops out an egg.

I wish my Lexus could poop out a Segway like that!

They've made a huge mistake.

haven't locomotives been diesel electric for decades? I don't see what's so revolutionary. The drivetrain is identical to a gas-electric hybrid.

More like about time.

I'm waiting for Audi to wise up and make a 700HP Q7 V10 Diesel-Electric Hybrid.

If you think that's cool, you should see my Subaru. It stores up to four bicycles on the roof!

Without the heavy Segways, the car would be lighter and more fuel efficient, and the driver /passenger would be lighter, and more fuel efficient.. what's wrong with walking?
This is stupid.. it's like showing an iPod in a boring car hoping the car looks "hip"... only at Opel don't know that Segways aren't hip at all.

Wow, that really is something, I wonder what GM will pull out of their ass next year!

The bean counters ate to many mushrooms on this one. Chickens poop eggs NOT Eggs poop chickens?

Where the hell do you put a BIKE RACK on that thing?

Stupid. Totally fricking stupid.

A chrome egg with an awkward space for two segways? Brilliant! They'll sell dozens... literally dozens!

I think they were trying to top the Envoy XUV for king of smallest niche market.

anything related to segways is inherently uncool.

You know what's really going to happen is someone is just going to take that car to a shopping center and take their segways to walk between stores instead of getting off their lazy butts.

On the bright side, you can park your car very very far away so you don't have to be embarrased arriving to a trendy party with that car.

@Fitty7lax: Diesel-electric locomotives are what the car guys are now calling "series hybrids". There's no mechanical linkage between the diesel powerplant and the wheels. Rather, the diesel engine drives a generator, which generates electric current that's fed to the electric traction motors in the trucks. (The trucks are those big "blocks" of wheels that are all hooked together - most locomotives have a front truck and a rear truck.) The traction motors turn the wheels.

Actually, the closest analogy in the car world is the MHEV (?) system that Mitsubishi's using in their concept cars - the one with the electric motors out in the wheel hubs.

@cgraham: Actually, when I saw the first pic I just thought Dumb + Ass = well, you know.

Don't these people know that when it comes to naming crud, "smart" or "nano" are the new "extreme?" Shouldn't it be the Nanosmartway or the Nanoflex Smartransporter? "Extreme" is as dated as, well, Segway tie-ins.

There's a nice rear end in that picture all right, but there aren't enough pictures of her loading that silly car.

Those segways would be way cooler with monogrammed pouches on the front.

How about they create another car called the Opel Matryoshka.
It consists of a rebadged GMC Yukon with an Opel Vectra hidden inside. Inside the Vectra is a rebadged Smart. Inside the Smart is a Segway. They'll sell like hotcakes...

Dorktastic! Will it make it off the dealer's lot before the FlexLoad door starts squeaking and rattling?

Wow, so cool! Especially since those dorky Segways are selling like hot cakes!!

@Bauhaus: Yep (I just watched a discovery channel show on locomotives, so you know, I'm basically an expert :P ). I was trying to say that the way that Opel hooked up the drivetrain is identical to that of, say, a Prius.

If they had come up with a diesel series hybrid then this would be interesting. But then there's all that extra unsprung weight...

None for me, thanks.

I'd prefer a motor home that craps out a 4x4 Bronco, that then craps out a quad.
Why would you want a boring car that craps out a boring scooter?

Wow. Imagine, we'll never have to walk. Ever. I mean, far be it from us to actually exert ourselves. :P

Wasn't this whole Segway in the back trick done a few years ago? (I'm too lazy to Google right now.)

Bertone did the Segway-in-the-trunk thing with its Birusa concept car.

To me, it looks like the segways should charge the Opel. God I hate Opels.

@Fitty7lax: this car IS a diesel series hybrid. it's based on the same E-Flex platform (hence the name Flextreme) as GM's Volt series of concepts, and like the first Volt, there is no connection between the fuel-burning engine and the wheels.

the segways would be nice when you miscalculate just how mugh range this car has, and have to go back to the last gas station you passed when you run out of juice in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Mea culpa, but I couldn't resist the reference:

"In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine, doing that for you"

There's this couple in their 40's who tool around the Woodstock neighborhood in SE PDX on their segeways. They're both fairly portly, in a vegie-neo-hippie turned yuppie sort of way. I'm still not seeing the benefeit. It might actually burn more calories to drive, although not nearly as hip. Is hip the right word there?

Whoa cool!! I can't wait until they unveil the Antarra with two ECVs in the back. Then again, I'll probably think Segways are cool 20 years from now, much like I do with the Peele at the moment.

and I would love to see how thy get these segways out of the Opel on a parking lot or better.. parked in the street..

should have called it the Opel Episiotomy