Supercool electric car

When it comes to Space Age looks, this puppy puts your garden-variety Prius to shame. The eight-wheeled Eliica also hauls butt: It's hit 230 mph in tests.

This Auto Express story and photo gallery (free registration required) about the experimental car is a couple years old -- I hope the Japanese researchers working on the prototype are a little closer to getting these freaky things on the open road. (Anybody read Japanese?)