In what has become a bit of a minor tradition for us, we carted our bodies into San Franscisco this afternoon to attend the SF Auto Show. It’s an opportunity to ooh and ah over some of the more expensive cars, and to sit in a bunch of cars and decide if they have enough head room without having to endure the pitches of sales people. I’ve been thinking about a more economical replacement for my gas guzzling Expedition, and the front runner would probably be a Honda Element, which has lots of room and seems really comfortable for me to drive.

There were two semi-crazy things at the show that I liked. The first was the all-electric sportscar by Tesla Motors. You can read about it on Wikipedia: does 0-60 in under four seconds. It’s pretty sweet looking too. At around $80K, it’s a bit too expensive for this humble blogger, but it looks like fun, and it would be great to kick sand on all those Prius owners.

The other crazy thing was the Dodge Tomahawk. It’s basically a motorcycle (but with four tires, two mounted closely side by side in the front and the back) and a Dodge Viper V10 engine that makes 500bhp. Apparently they’ve shown them at other events before, and sold 10 of them from Neiman-Marcus at $550,000 each, but they are really just for show. They look like something right out of a Japanese anime comic. Dodge Tomahawk – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I even snapped a picture with my camera phone:

[tags]SF Auto Show[/tags]