Last spring I attended my first American auto show in years, and was wowed by a sleek concept car from Lincoln; its body was straight out of Blade Runner, the interior's upholstery heavily borrowed from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But it was the only engineer's side project to see there. Naturally, the Tokyo Motor Show 2003 is stuffed with cars of one man's tomorrow - from the gorgeous to the utilitarian to the bizarre, to the polished metal sunflower seed with wheels. All that and more in this week's peek at the Pacific's own Best of Show.
BONUS: We all knew that Flash animation would eventually arrive at staggering artistic heights. And that the triumph would be all Japan's. (Thanks, Patrick.)
COINCIDENCE?: Unbeknownst to me, Lileks made a random reference to H.G. Wells today, too. I'm guessing the seed was planted a few days ago when Glenn Reynolds linked to a blogger comparing the present conflict to The War of the Worlds.