Very cool! I saw a clip of a similar fountain for a Jeep display at an auto show. Now, how long before someone builds a three dimensional version?

Have Americans finally figured out that it's "recce" (pronounced 'Wreck-E') not "recon"? I've never heard that term used coming from an American source before.

The video is a bit blah though, it's just a concept design. Anyone who's been to an auto show knows that 10 years later the cars coming off the line have very little to do with the concept cars.

You know me too well Alan! This is fun! Reminds me of the "Beep Beep Yr ass" T-shirt I saw as a kid at an auto show.

Looks like a pipe broke at a winter Auto Show...

>> ^Xaielao:
Conan is at his best when he's out of the studio and touring some place. The videos are always on the sift before long and always funny as hell.


I agree - I don't care much for his show, but this stuff is funny.

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What was on the ballot....Unemployment for Everyone!!!!.....Hey, the big Auto Show is about to fire up there in Detroit....do they picket and boycott that thing there or what???

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Ok, thats not the worst looking alternative fuel car. Isn't the problem with hydrogen powered cars that we don't have access to reserves of pure hydrogen on Earth. We have to extract it from forms of hydrocarbons like natural gas which uses energy and has byproducts carbon monoxide, so the efficiency and cleanliness isn't really that good.

Yes, Hydrogen cars are not the best option because of the reasons you stated. Electric cars would be my primary choice so long as it had a secondary method as a backup in case it would be impossible to recharge the vehicle. I just posted this because it seems that many of the vehicle manufacturers are pushing for Hydrogen vehicles as a potential solution. Just about every major manufacturer has come up with similar Hydrogen cars for the year 2008.

There is a car manufacturer in Canada that is making some nice Electric cars and the EV1 was an outstanding electric vehicle. They were put under pressure by the petro and parts sales divisions to eliminate their electric vehicle line which is unfortunate and just goes to show how much power the petrolium industry has over us.

GM just came out with an electric hybrid that seems very interesting and it will still allow them to charge us for fuel and replacement parts which seems to be their main concern.

http://www.videosift.com/video/GM-Electric-Concept-Car-Unveiled-at-2007-Detroit-Auto-Show
http://www.videosift.com/video/Electric-Car-The-Chevy-Volt

I saw this car at the Detroit Auto Show last January. Very nice.

Veyron is the bomb. But all these cars are ridiculously out of reach for most... all of us here...

I went to the Montreal Auto Show on Tuesday and saw some sweet rides for under a leg and an arm. One that really caught my eye was the <ahref="http://www.silenceinc.ca">Silence Electric Car. Which would have 60 cent per mile refuel cost and possesses race car performance for roughly 19,000 Canadian. Check out a <ahref="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4PggG7bgo&eurl=">*video on YouTube. And here it's driving on the road.

*disclosure I made the video from film I shot myself.

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