I classify welding as being pretty hot.

If it's used on a car, it should only be charged to about 12v and be about as dangerous ( or not ) as the battery itself. Which, while it can put out enough current to make stuff get pretty hot, generally won't give you a shock if you touch both terminals.

If a guy in a barn, working with a couple of friends on the weekend, could make a 200 MPG car, with a 200 mile range and 130 MPH top speed, then why couldn't the big auto companies do it?

I don't know if it's true, but I had heard that some pothole repair created more potholes to fix later, thus assuring steady work for the pothole crew. It worked like this:

http://halcyoncycleworks.com/ already makes something a lot like that, gas only.

They're ALREADY illegal.

And where, exactly, would one drive such a city? It's shown moving across land that has roads, farms, solar power installations, etc. The city would have to own the land that it moves over.

If they're going to promote it as a cold weather vehicle , seems like it's a non-starter ( ( literally) if it doesn't have a block heater, battery blanket and oil pan heater. Synthetic oil ought to be standard, along with tire chains and an extra-high capacity heater with vents for the back seats and windows.

That would be nice, seeing how any structural strength that the roof had vanished with the poor chop job. But no, I don't think there's anything else in there but noodle.

DIY meets WTF.

Not just destined to, DESIGNED to kill its operator.

Ford Model A sleeper. Completely rebuilt with new suspension, brakes, alloy wheels that look like wooden spokes and 250hp Ford Rally car BDA motor done up to look like the original.Pics at Makela Auto Tuning

Looks like it has a half-dozen air fresheners hanging off the parking brake. Not a good sign. Between that and the multiple personality disorder of 80's era personal luxury and performance car parts, CP.

I had the earlier Celica and loved it. Great motors, great shifters, great quality. Compare them to the rest of the late '70's options and they look even better. While I'm not sure that I feel a Celica sized hole in my fleet, this seems like a fair price for a 35 year old survivor. NP.

Also, one of them  ( the Aquila ) hit a whale. 

There were several of them stationed in Key West when I moved there in '90. I've seen them "fly" past me when fishing offshore, it's awesome. Listed top speed is 48+ knots, and I can tell you that I've been on an outboard powered fishing boat doing 45 knots ( by Loran ) and they walked away from me pretty quickly. 

We know when it's coming back ( 2046 ) and it's not coming as close ( 1 Million Miles or so ). This close pass has altered the orbit of 2012 DA14 to actually reduce the threat to the earth.

"Space rocks as much as 100 feet across are estimated to strike every hundred years or so and those like the 160-foot diameter Tunguska meteor of 1908 hit maybe once a century."

I should have mentioned, it was a Casio DW-250 DG, if you want to google it and see an example.