We know you’ve been jonesin' for a new Autopia WTF? Photo Caption Contest to make you cock your head like a confused beagle. We here at Autopia aim to please, and you'll love this one.
We found this WTF goldmine not at a Pixar premier but at the Sports & Classics of Monterey auction during the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance weekend. Take a gander at the Veritas RS III. It's got a front end as attractive as an 80-year-old diner waitress who has a voice raspier than Clint Eastwood's.
The moniker is Latin for “truth,” and it left us wondering how you say “ugly truth” in Latin.
German automaker Vermot is building just 50 of these cars, which look like they were penned by a 12-year-old boy during detention. The tube-framed monstrosity comes with your choice of two powerplants. You probably don’t give a rat’s ass about the weaker of the two, so we'll tell you the real pavement-peeler comes with a modified 5.0-liter V10 supplied by BMW. It puts down 600 horsepower and can launch the car from 0 to 62 mph in 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 215 mph. That about sums up what we enjoy and can make sense of in this car.
Now, to bring to light its WTF characteristics. What is with that styling? This thing looks like the villain in a Pixar movie from the front and something Batman might drive from the back. It's as ugly coming as it is going. Kinda like the Pontiac Aztek. What's more, this one-seater starts -- yes, starts -- at a frugal $487,000.
So how can a country that has given us the timeless Porsche 911, the beautiful BMW Z8, the awesome Mercedes Black and other lustworthy iron give birth to something like this? Let’s put it this way -- when it comes to taste, designers at BMW, Benz and Porsche obviously don’t fancy David Hasselhoff.
Now it’s up to you. Our seasoned readers know how these WTF? caption contests work, but we’ll repeat it for all of you just tuning in. Use the Reddit widget to chime in with a caption and vote for your favorite. The winner gets a prize from the Autopia grab bag -- we grab it and send it to you. For that, we’ll need your email address. No email address, no prize.
Need Cliffs Notes? You can cheat off the Autopia WTF? Brazilian Minicar and Chrysler KGB Edition photo captions, or any of the others we've run.
Photos: Jim Merithew / Wired.com
Your turn. Submit a caption, win a prize.
While you can submit as many captions as you want, you can only submit one every 30 minutes. No HTML allowed.
