You're referring to the Moler Skycar I believe. The cables are their for legal reasons. The vehicle is not cleared by some combination of the FAA & the company's lawyers for "untethered flight" So the cable(s) is there so even if something goes catastrophically wrong the skycar can't end up in a airliner's flight…

-2004 Scion xB. DEAR GOD but this car needs a 6th gear(or taller 5th). The engine is screaming at highway speeds, even with the extra sound deadening I added.

I worked at a gas station back in 2002. There was a guy who'd modified a dually Ford super-duty with a 2nd tank that took up 1/3 of the bed. He used it for his job of hauling boats between CT to FL. He'd show up like clockwork every week and spend a 1/2hr filling the tank.

"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what kills people." -Jeremy Clarkson-

I want to hate it, but I can't.

The Volt story just continues to re-affirm my opinion that keyless start systems are a bad idea. Thanks to this system I can not realize my car is on, and walk away from it and it will stay running? It can be started if I am standing close enough to the car? These are *terrible* designs and have all sorts of safety &…

A massive earthquake hits japan, his plane is diverted to a military base. My guess is that the military personell's highest priorty is *not* the planeloads of uninjured civilians that are parked on their runways.

Reckless driving. If your wheels are spinning like that you are technically not in control of your vehicle. Had that explained to me by a very polite cop who pulled my 17 year old self over in my Chevelle after I spun the tires pulling away from a light. Got a verbal "try it again and you're in for a world of…

All the 2st amendment says is the *government* can't limit your free speech.

80's Argentinian Falcon. Same basic body shell as the 1960 US Falcon, but "updated" for the 80s. I still want to import one of these to the US just to take it to car shows and baffle people.

Lets see...

My "Old Ford" (Actually a '62 Mercury Comet). I've had her for 7 years, and she's not going anywhere. In the last year I lost my job, lost the house & garage I was renting and moved to a tiny apartment in another state with barely enough room for my cars. She's spent this winter sitting outside buried in snow. Right…

I personally would agree to a new hood painted to match AND some sort of discount (1-2 months payment would be fair).

The National Enquirer thinks its readership isn't smart enough to realize Jobs wouldn't be driving a clapped-out honda.

Shortly after this is released someone is going to post a totally sweet DIY on some crap car forum about how to do this cheaply with two old Xplode subwoofers, 8 feet of speaker wire and 3 tubes of bathroom caulk. Shortly afterwards everyone dumb enough to try it will blow out their back window trying to test their…

The jack base is a GM unit, no idea from when. All I can find are 67-69 Camaro units which were stamped with a U, but look slightly different than this one. That truck is bugging me as it looks familiar but I can't place it. International & Studebaker look similar, but not right.

Ask Sammy Davis Jr. He lost his left eye in an accident in 1954 due to impaling it on the pointed center of the steering wheel in the Cadillac he was driving. He wore a glass eye for the rest of his life.

The Rodster. Because if I want a 2-seater convertible roadster, my first though is to start with a Chevy Blazer. This is also the answer to the question "What is the stupidest car conversion ever?"

@Engineer - Think James May but not quite as witty, well paid, or British.: The energy needed to produce hydrogen (from splitting whater or whatnot) is mroe energy-intensive than what you get from the Hydrogen. So we'd be using *more* oil/coal/nuclear/etc. energy to run hydrogen powered cars. Until someone comes up…

@Pixel: The '58 Packard Station Wagon is pretty bad too.