# Nuclear Powered Cadillac **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367 "2009-01-15T02:43:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/1 "2009-01-15T02:43:50Z")
[In '57 Studebaker-Packard gave us the nuclear powered Astra concept.](http://www.carspace.com/petersenauto/Albums/altpower/studeb_1957.jpg/page/photo.html) [A year later, Ford unveiled the the Nucleon concept.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon) [Now, over 50 years later, Cadillac has the WTFC.](http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/13/not-in-detroit-cadillac-world-thorium-fuel-concept/) > [@](#): > > Here’s another one from the world of unlimited conceptual design: the Cadillac World Thorium Fuel concept. Otherwise known as the Cadillac WTF. Created by Loren Kulesus, everything about the WTF has been created to last 100 years without maintenance. That’s the reason for the element number ninety, thorium: to act as a nuclear fuel powering batteries that would power the car. Somewhere, an Ambulance Chaser just had an orgasm. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/2 "2009-01-15T03:11:02Z")
The Cadillac What The Fuck? That’s a joke. That has to be a joke car, if not a joke article. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/3 "2009-01-15T03:16:15Z")
Am I the only one who’s just a little suspicious about a car called “WTF” particularly when Googling for it only brings up a bunch of blog postings? _EAT: Since **Derleth** beat me to the punch, I guess the answer is “probably not.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/4 "2009-01-15T03:21:03Z")
[Designer’s page.](http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_details.asp?individual_id=207368) Dunno if its an _official_ Cadillac concept, but it certainly seems that the designer’s a legit person, and **not** some wag working for the Onion. ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/5 "2009-01-15T03:43:18Z")
That has to be the sexiest car I’ve ever seen. I hope it’s not a joke. It’ll never happen. It defies The Law of Planned Obsolescence. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/6 "2009-01-15T04:55:05Z")
Looks like a great way to draw attention to your web page, but definitely not serious. I even wonder if he can legally associate Cadillacs name with it. It doesn’t remotely look real. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/7 "2009-01-15T17:21:28Z")
I want one, if for no other reason than to spin donuts in the parking lot of a farmer’s market, in front of a bunch of hippies. _“ZERO EMISSIONS, BITCHES! BwaHAhaHAhaHA! Rickover rules! SCIENCE!”_ 😃 I’m sorry, I’ve just always wanted to do something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/8 "2009-01-15T19:45:10Z")
I would never be a good auto exec because I’d want to name it the Nuke or the Defcon 235. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/9 "2009-01-15T19:54:54Z")
That is the coolest lokking car ever. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/10 "2009-01-15T23:53:17Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I want one, if for no other reason than to spin donuts in the parking lot of a farmer’s market, in front of a bunch of hippies. > > _“ZERO EMISSIONS, BITCHES! BwaHAhaHAhaHA! Rickover rules! SCIENCE!”_ > > 😃 > > I’m sorry, I’ve just always wanted to do something like that. Given my Cartman like inclination towards hippies thats to damn funny 🙂 I should tell the story about the time I took the little grandkids to barnes and nobles and went hippie hunting. ---
**Author:** ![PopeJewish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@PopeJewish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PopeJewish)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-powered-cadillac/481367/11 "2009-01-16T01:24:04Z")
I think it’s something an independent designer did FOR cadillac, but not in an official capacity. He says it’s an exercise he did, meaning he was probably just tooling around with a neat idea > [@](#): > > This car is an exercise in design for the brand Cadillac… it definitely will never come to fruition, we’ll never be able to buy it, but it’s a damn sweet looking car, and never having to go to the gas station would be awesome (though just one more reason why it’d never happen, aside from it looking like there’s not trunk space. I mean, where am I supposed to hide my dead hookers?! 😉 )