al-Gaddafi presents car designed by himself!

Guess they don't have many pedestrian safety laws in his land of dictatorship...

That thing looks like the ramming prow of Captain Nemo's Nautilus...

 

Is that thing designed to transport a casket?

 

lol

.. it does look awfull

 

I hear it was inspired by the Gremlin and Pacer....

 

FUGLY!!!!

 

If anybody remembers "The Khadafi Look" 'commercial' starring Gilda Radner on SNL, they'll know who should be spokesmodel for this... thing with wheels.

 

That's hideous...

 

Great, minivan doors, I wonder if that car has rearseat DVD player and 3rd row seating.

 

I won't go there.

 

Kicks azz in the offset barrier crash. All the designers from Pug, Nissan, Renault who fail aren't fired, they're sent to Libya.
Colors put the Moo in Muammar

 

Actually, it's rather interesting. Compared to the boring stuff plain jane stuff most are making, it has some fresh thinking. It's not great by any means but at least it's different.

The wheels are a direct Ferrari rip off though. He get's a minus 100 for that.

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5igICeYIQfQpXk4vOW8Xa3Td-GfSwD9AF6OEO0


Italian firm makes 'rocket' car for Gadhafi
(AP) – 2 days ago

ROME — How do you celebrate a coup that gave you 40 years in power? For Moammar Gadhafi, the answer is simple: Order a rocket car.

An Italian engineering company said Wednesday that the Libyan leader wanted an ultra-safe car as sleek as a rocket to celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 coup that brought him to power — so that's what they made for him.

The "Rocket" — as the prototype has been dubbed — is described as an "elegant sedan" 17 feet (5.5 meters) long, more than six feet (1.8 meters) wide, with a 3-liter, V-6 gasoline engine.

In an added bonus, it can go hundreds of miles (kilometers) on a flat tire — a feature could come in handy while driving in the vast Libyan desert. Other safety features include a device to cut off the fuel supply to avoid a fire in case of accident.

Domenico Morali, CEO of Tesco TS SpA, an automotive design company based in Turin, Italy, said Gadhafi joined in discussions about the car's styling and asked for an original car using Libyan materials including marble, leather and fabric.

The car was unveiled earlier this week in Tripoli at the end of an African Union summit.

"The first thing (Gadhafi wanted) was safety in how you drive," Morali said in a telephone interview. "The second was developing the automotive sector in Libya."

It was unclear, however, what automotive sector the Libyan leader envisioned for his arid, oil-and-gas rich country. There appears to be no immediate plans to churn out the rocket car on a mass scale for Libyan commuters.

Gadhafi already owns one rocket car, which he bought 10 years ago when he marked 30 years in power. At the time, Libya boasted the vehicle was the safest in the world.

 

That is beautiful, what the California should've looked like

 

You know you are a marked man, right?![]

 

Looks like a snow plow. Should come in handy for Libyan winters.

 

"...and I'll call it, 'The Homer'"

 

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Wow - that is... unusual.

Here's another gallery of it: http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/libyan-rocket/#4

It looks like a Honda Civic and a Peugeot have somehow been fused together in a telepod accident, similar to that depicted in The Fly (1986) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064/synopsis and then suffered a horrific form of automotive punishment for its carelessness by having a rope attached to each front and rear bumpers and stretched on a torture rack.

All the best,
Andrew.