Another totally arbitrary deadline has passed and we're announcing the winner of the Autopia WTF? Detroit Auto Show EV Caption Contest.
Auto shows are always great for WTF? moments, and Toyota provided one of the biggest at the North American International Auto Show with the FT-EV II. The exterior is a car show-tweaked riff on the Toyota iQ microcar we love. It's the interior that leaves you wondering what Toyota's designers are smoking. They tossed the steering wheel, the pedals -- which might not be a bad idea, given Toyota's luck with pedals lately -- and even the dashboard to maximize interior room. In their place is a pair of joysticks and a pair of gauges that look like gyroscopes.
None of that mattered to stlenee, who riffed on the car's size in this politically incorrect caption that our readers overwhelmingly voted for:
One-hundred and seventy eight people voted for that caption. Fultbolgi123 took second with a variation on that theme: "America, where the cars are getting smaller and the people are getting bigger." It wasn't until the third-place caption that anyone poked fun at the car's interior. Anonymous garnered 127 votes for "If you'll just put your feet into the stirrups..."
This is the first contest in, well, we don't remember how long where the winner actually followed the rules and provided an email address. So stlenee, we'll be dropping you a line soon to find out where to send your prize.
Hat-tip to AJ for reminding us that we hadn't named a winner.
Photo: Chuck Squatriglia / Wired.com
