# New Idea for a car **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [December 10, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177 "2007-12-10T02:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ktpmh2007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ktpmh2007](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ktpmh2007)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/1 "2007-12-10T02:04:07Z")
I have a brilliant idea for a hybrid car that use no conventional fuel and its reliability would be ridiculous. it also would have 600+ hp. ---
**Author:** ![karl-sieger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@karl-sieger](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karl-sieger)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/2 "2007-12-10T02:11:31Z")
I’ll bite. ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/3 "2007-12-10T02:12:01Z")
If you can create 600 HP engine that doesn’t use a conventional fuel, and is so reliable, what the hell are you doing here? Tester ---
**Author:** ![karl-sieger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@karl-sieger](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karl-sieger)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/4 "2007-12-10T02:31:25Z")
Well? ---
**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/5 "2007-12-10T02:51:25Z")
OK, what’s your brilliant idea? ---
**Author:** ![mconn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mconn](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mconn)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/6 "2007-12-10T03:24:28Z")
“brilliant” ?..I think not. Mine has 800+ hp seats 12 and uses no fuel at all; as a matter of fact, it makes it. ---
**Author:** ![mr\_josh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mr_josh/32/3008_2.png) [@mr\_josh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mr_josh)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/7 "2007-12-10T03:29:10Z")
And thus, Soylent Gas was born. ---
**Author:** ![karl-sieger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@karl-sieger](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karl-sieger)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/8 "2007-12-10T04:39:40Z")
I’ve designed a generator that produces more energy than it consumes; I am able to trisect an angle using the classic method of a compass and straightedge; and the coup de grace, my Perpetual Motion Machine, is nearing completion. All I need now is the 10 million giga-watts to power up the flux capacitor… Where’s the Man of La Mancha when you need him?! ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/9 "2007-12-10T05:42:58Z")
I hope you’re not committing patent infringement on the prototype I built about 6 or 7 years ago. It sounds awfully familiar. Care to post any details before I sic the lawyers on ya’? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jeffmw05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@Jeffmw05](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jeffmw05)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/10 "2007-12-10T07:10:44Z")
You just violated rule #1 of inventing something: Don’t tell anyone about your brilliant idea. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 9:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/11 "2007-12-10T09:50:03Z")
Perhaps the most ridiculous part of this concept is claiming to know both the reliability and the power output of this design before a prototype is actually built. ---
**Author:** ![mr\_josh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mr_josh/32/3008_2.png) [@mr\_josh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mr_josh)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:42am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/12 "2007-12-10T10:42:31Z")
I just thought of something: cup holders. How many cup holders? That’s a deal breaker for some people. ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/13 "2007-12-10T10:52:03Z")
I think someone already has that. They called it a steam engine. It runs on metal tracks. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/14 "2007-12-10T17:41:49Z")
I have a Jamaican coffee that should power your flux capacitor. We should talk. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/15 "2007-12-10T17:46:26Z")
Me too. Now if I can only get the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approvals… ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/16 "2007-12-10T17:57:35Z")
Can’t be any worse than the nuclear powered aircraft concept (seriously proposed, believe it or not). ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/17 "2007-12-10T18:20:23Z")
NOT seriously proposed originally anyway. Richard Feynman proposed it because they were giving out $1 for every patent idea involving nuclear power. He wanted money to buy treats for his fellow Manhattan Project physicists. Someone later _took_ it seriously, but Feynman knew it was stupid when he proposed it. ---
**Author:** ![Roadrunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Roadrunner](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Roadrunner)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/18 "2007-12-10T18:29:00Z")
That’s no big deal. My wife mixes one hell of a concoction of spices that after consumed will propel anyone from Ontario to the west coast for free. Now, if I could invent a rectumfier. ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/19 "2007-12-10T18:33:22Z")
Unfortunately, some others (like Teller) never met a crazy idea they didn’t like (and he didn’t even play the bongo drums). (-; ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177/20 "2007-12-10T18:42:15Z")
It would be much easier to go this route. [http://zapatopi.net/afdb/build.html](http://zapatopi.net/afdb/build.html) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/new-idea-for-a-car/8177.md?page=2)