the big three got killed by babies
The star of the 2006 Philadelphia auto show was an impressively stylized sportscar that goes zero to sixty in four seconds.
Boring, I know.
Oh, and it runs entirely on soybean oil. At fifty miles to the gallon.
Concept car, five to seven years from production? nope. Six-figure pricetag? nope.
Here comes the best part.
It was designed and built in a high school garage, by five dropouts or near-dropouts, one of whom is named “Cheeseborough.” They used primarily spare parts and a high school shop teacher’s know-how.
And you can’t fool these kids as to the uniqueness of their accomplishment, either:
“We made this work,” says Hauger. “We’re not geniuses. So why aren’t they doing it?” Kosi thinks he knows why. The answer, he says, is the big oil companies. “They’re making billions upon billions of dollars,” he says. “And when this car sells, that’ll go down — to low billions upon billions.”
So what now, GMFordToyotaDaimler? Fuck around with half-hearted hybrids and promises of hydrogen highways in two decades, or run off of something we’re paying farmers /not/ to produce, today? How soon before a team of VCs picks up these designs and starts up real competition, something you haven’t faced in a quarter-century?
Clock’s running. Get to it.
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February 7th, 2007 at 11:24 am
this is gay i dont understand what three did these babies kill????
July 11th, 2007 at 6:41 am
No shit, I am so sick of th 10-20 year timeline it takes for any concept to be put in production by major corporations and the government. Ugh it pisses me off to know this stuff is possible, but we are held hostage to hybrids such as the Dodge Durango that still use gas engines ful time for rear wheel drive and part time electric for full time 4wd. Fucking gay as hell. Ugly ass SUV too. Fuck all SUV drivers.
July 11th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Brittany, its a metaphor for the the three major domestic auto companies being trumped by a few high school drop outs.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:35 am
congress, bush and all the oil companys can lick me
March 21st, 2009 at 5:56 pm
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH EVERYBODY ON T.V. ? EVERYONE IS CRYING AND REAL TEARS TOO WHAT THE FUCK BOO FUCKIN HOO ALL YOU PISSING GREEN PUSS BABY’S , MEN PULL YOUR BALLS OUT OF YOUR ASS’S AND STAND UP STRAIGHT AND GRIT YOUR FUCKIN TEETH AND SAY (I CAN TAKE ANYTHING THE WORLD CAN THROW UP AT ME.) AND ALL YOU SLIMEY F U C K I N G CUNT’S IF YOUR GOING TO CRY THEN CRY ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU WHEN YOU CAN’T FIND SOMEONE TO LIKE YOU LET ALONE LOVE YOU CAUSE THEY HAD WATCHED YOU RIPPINGYOUR EYES OUT BECAUSE YOU GOT A FUCKING COLD SORE BITCH.