Brilliant!!! Now all it needs is the ability to fly and the hovercraft modification and we officially have the car of the future promised to us in the 50's.

Too bad only the Japanese will be able to fit in it.

I'm glad it's only a concept. I'd take the Volvo Concept Car over that, even though you can probably open the Prius' hood!

I've seen uglier.

The CS&S was first shown nearly a year ago. This however was just shown at Geneva. Can you say 400 hp Hybrid Supra Boys and Girls?

http://autoweek.com/specials/2004_geneva/volta/pages/index.htm

CS&S also unveils "Toyota Space Touch," where the driver selects functions by "touching" holographic projections.

That would be awesome.

Why are all the ecocars so fugly?

I don't care how ugly it is - if it's cleaner, I'll drive one as soon as I can afford it.

personally I think it's pretty cool looking.

It looked better when it was the batmobile.

A bar of soap with four wheels! Wheeee!

its not that bad looking, i've seen much worse

Just paint it black, put on red trim and really big fins on the back...


To the Batmobile!

I think ecocars are so fugly because all of the major car manufacturers probably own lots of stock in oil companies. And vice versa. My own small conspiracy theory.

Damm you, blackstrain! Damn YOU!

There are more "regular-looking" gaseolectric cars out now, if one is really in the market. That's what I plan on buying in 2-3 years, regardless if gas is still $2.00+ / gal.

Wow, every time I refresh fark, there's a few more articles. This is cool. *-* Fark as far as the eye can see.

Since when do cars have to look like an elephant shat it out?

Just make sure Chim-Chim and Spritle aren't in the trunk when you enter the race with Racer-X.

I actually like it. AND it's a hybrid.

/once you go hybrid, you never go back.

Doonyman - I dont get it.

Thunderbirds are go!

I would buy it. Anything with curves is good. Better looking than this

uh, where the fark is the windshield?

I dunno. I think it looks kinda cool. I'm sick and tired of all these cars today that take no chances and all look like the genetic consequences of Southern intermarriage. They all look the exact same, and are all fugly.

At least it is different. I would have loved to own a Mustang concept car too. *sigh*

That thing got Hemi?

that is the weirdest looking thing I've ever seen.

This wouldn't make a good getaway car at all. Too easy to shoot the passengers.

gotta do something .....
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

...And there are no mirrors on this turd of a hybrid car. Yikes.

Anyone else think the front-end looks like a crazed cartoon character's face?

I think it looks cool.

2004-04-11 11:18:39 PM Slapula
uh, where the fark is the windshield?


Your face is the windshield.

That's pretty nice (my wife doens't like it), but I think I prefer the Fine-N or the Fine-S. I espeically like the steering "wheel" on the Fine-N.

How could you boink your date in one of those?

an evil hybrid?

To bad we'll all be dead before this thing is ever built

How about a 400hp hybrid? 0-60 in 4sec and 31mpg.

Now why can't there be more hybrids that look and perform like the Volta?
http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/future/volta.html

On second thought, if it ever went to production, it would probably have a MSRP of just under 700 Billion dollars.

That steering wheel looks like it would snap off in my hands.

No thanks, give me my Detroit-made lumbering steel giant with sucky fuel econonomy and oil dripping on the driveway.

i would like to have a hybrid car, but not one that looks like that.

I am so afraid of the future, just because of cars like this....

vjp
That steering wheel looks like it would snap off in my hands.

No thanks, give me my Detroit-made lumbering steel giant with sucky fuel econonomy and oil dripping on the driveway.

I will say this once, and only once: You are an asshat.

Poster can go to hell. That car kicks ass.

good thing honda makes a civic hybrid

What we need to do is crush all the SUVs in the world, and then recycle them into some of these hybrids.

It looks like the taxi from Who Framed Rodger Rabbit.

/really, it does.

vjp:

No thanks, give me my Detroit-made lumbering steel giant with sucky fuel econonomy and oil dripping on the driveway.

I give you 3/5 on the troll scale. Personally, I thought it was a poor effort, but it elicited some reaction, so bonus points.

I like the fact it's a hybrid, but damn, it's ugly as shiat. Maybe I'm not just lagging behind the times or something.

vjp

How could you boink your date in one of those?

There's always the tried and true "doggystyle-over-the-hood" approach.