My challenge to automakers...

It's simple:

Beautiful, safe, affordable cars with zero environmental impact.

Scrap the current system, it's not working. (OK, Toyota, you get points for trying.) But I'd like to see what's happened to the bloated music industry happen to the petrified auto industry. Let the independents have a go. Bypass the greedy, controlling manufacturers. Or at least scare them into action. Look, we have a National Highway Safety Administration. It's there to prevent unsafe cars from driving on our roads. Let's use them. Get them on board this challenge (once we rethink their super-nerdy website/image, that is)

If the X-Prize Foundation was willing to host a high-profile competition in order to create a "practical" private spaceship (note that the contest attracted hundreds of millions of dollars of invaluable research and experimentation in pursuit of the $10,000,000 booty) can I challenge them to take the Gazpachot challenge as their next challenge? Certainly humanity can benefit more immediately and significantly from a new wave of safe, clean, and attractive autos. In the meantime, keep making those spaceships - we might need them to get out of here if we keep this up!

UPDATE: Gadzooks, It exists!!!
Well, I'd rather be a lazy editor than an angry dreamer...

(A 1938 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic that emits sunflowers)