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Not in Detroit: Cadillac World Thorium Fuel Concept
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Cadillac World Thorium Fuel Concept
Here's another one from the world of unlimited conceptual design: the Cadillac World Thorium Fuel concept. Otherwise known as the Cadillac WTF. Created by Loren Kulesus, everything about the WTF has been created to last 100 years without maintenance. That's the reason for the element number ninety, thorium: to act as a nuclear fuel powering batteries that would power the car.
Elsewhere, every major system is redundant in case of a failure. And the wheels don't have individual tires - in fact, what's located at each corner is one combined unit made up of six individual wheels. That gives you 24 wheels in total, and each wheel has its own induction motor. Said Kulesus, "The vehicle would require the tires to be adjusted every five years, but no material would need to be added or subtracted." Here's to the future. While you wait for it, have a look at the Cadillac WTC in the gallery of high-res photos below.
Gallery: Cadillac World Thorium Fuel Concept
[Source: Coroflot via Autoblog.nl]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
tuna 6:03PM (1/13/2009)
This should be on the Onion.
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old news 1:22AM (1/14/2009)
this is actually a ripoff of a cool concept i saw at the art center college of design in Pasadena, CA last year. whatever this designer did to change it into this hideous POS is awful.
u suck Loren Kulesus!
Corey W. 8:44AM (1/14/2009)
I highly doubt this design is a copy of someone else's work...
BoneHeadOtto 8:44AM (1/14/2009)
No kidding! I bet this is a hoax because who would name their car the Cadillac WTF. And doesnt Cadillac have any say in who attaches their name to a concept!
WTF FTW!!!!
juschilln02 3:03PM (1/14/2009)
@ old news, Loren designed the car you saw last year at Art Center. jackass. He designed it for his senior project.
Loren - keep it up man, you're a genius
means98 6:04PM (1/13/2009)
why not just make it look somewhat like a normal car, put regular-ish tires on it (because people dont mind changing and rotating tires) and call it a realistic car that will last a really long time??
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Kattleox 7:20PM (1/13/2009)
Oh, so it's a car is it? I thought it was a Cadillac roll away coffee table.
Jared 8:25AM (1/14/2009)
IDK about you... But I hate changing tires. Especially when you have to buy all new ones... and last time I checked Low profiles for my car are $200 a pop.... that times 4 = more money then I want to spend.
moa 6:04PM (1/13/2009)
:) first autoblog post with "wtf" tag. i'm looking for more...
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Serge 6:07PM (1/13/2009)
WTF indeed...
While a cool idea, it won't make production for 100 years... if ever.
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chconline 6:07PM (1/13/2009)
My first reaction was, WTF?
No pun intended.
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MemphisNET 6:12PM (1/13/2009)
They HAD to know what WTF means...
Then again, I'm pretty sure everyone inside of Dodge wasn't really calling the Dodge RAM BFT a ''big fast truck''
Cool concept on design and technology? Hell yea!
Cool car? Umm... well the name says it all.
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Peter 6:41PM (1/13/2009)
BFT stands for Built For Towing
MemphisNET 6:55PM (1/13/2009)
Ok, fine..
..but do you really think that's what they're calling it internally? :D
happy_penguin 9:54PM (1/13/2009)
Why not?
Best. Acronym. Ever!
NT 12:23AM (1/14/2009)
Built For Towing my [expletive]. Dodge KNEW what we'd think when they came out with BFT. THEY SUGGESTED IT.
With the WTF, I bet it's Wagoner's last laugh before Congress kicks him out of GM.
Vyk 6:16PM (1/13/2009)
The "WTF" logo is priceless...
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LoneWolf 6:41PM (1/13/2009)
It's so true...
larry a 2:17AM (1/14/2009)
+ 1000000000
DougyT 6:16PM (1/13/2009)
This makes my head hurt...
A caddy that would last 100 years? That's not how it goes at all...
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