Geez, What Is It With You and Cars?

Yeah. Uh-huh. Another car post. Here's another link abour cars. Here's a direct link to the manufacturer.

I want one. I'll start of right away by saying that. The XR3 is small. It's a two-person vehicle. It is (at least to me) visually appealing. It doesn't weigh a lot (1480 lbs). It should get amazing gas mileage (b/w 125 mpg and 225 mpg), and is a hybrid. The drawbacks? Biodiesel; it's not that plentiful around here. Home-fabrication; I'm a clutz, and it would be a lot of money to screw it up, or I'd run into a problem and never get it done. It looks complicated. Maintenance; I probably don't know enough about it to get it done. Plus, it won't go up on a standard pneumatic lift, so working on it would probably be difficult. That's probably my auto ignorance speaking, though.

If I had a little extra cash, I'd do it in a second. It'd be a fun project. Apparently the plans are around $200. Anyway, I've been happy about the recent trends in more efficient cars. However, these trends all seem to come from the one-off (or multi-off) companies. When will the major manufacturers do something this daring?