Southern California is the car world's crystal ball: Home to the most advanced car-design studios in the country, it's the place all the big carmakers look when they want to see the future. And, indeed, the entries in the second annual Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge are plenty futuristic-looking. The competition gives 10 studios the chance to pursue far-flung ideas without worrying about budgets and other mundane realities. For example, the Maybach California Gourmet Tourer, shown in the picture above, employs GPS guidance to chauffeur the wine connoisseurs who will be clinking glasses in the seating area in back. Of course, the most intriguing entry is Honda's Running Bus, a hybrid that would be powered by the feet of passengers, jogging on side-by-side treadmills. In Southern California, world leader in both gridlock and gym memberships, this is probably the most plausible design in the entire competition, even if it does recall the foot-powered Flintstones car. Yubba dubba do !!
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