I wonder why this never caught on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHRkQ51ZavU

Probably because you had to back into traffic, the cost and the weight as well.

I like it!

They just need to finish working the bugs out. It takes a long time for Detroit to bring an idea from the drawing board into production.

Because trunk space.

Good concept but crappy implementation - that thing must be heavy and complex. And yeah, goodbye trunk space.

These days it would be best to do it with a simple electric/hydraulic/whatever's easiest jack that lifts the car onto some small electrically-driven wheels (thus no need for whatever Rube Goldberg drive arrangement that thing uses).

Then after all that, you probably wouldn't use it that often.

In most cases getting in is harder than getting out so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ56biCBja4

" getting in is harder than getting out " Ha, that's what she said. Gives doing donuts a whole new perspective.

That's one way to eliminate push in your race car!

ncjay wrote: " getting in is harder than getting out " Ha, that's what she said. Gives doing donuts a whole new perspective.

+1 on ncjay's donuts!