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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 31/01/2008
Designers will occasionally develop flights of fancy which would never in the wildest business models reach the showroom floor. Come on, you remember 'em. The Toyota i-Real , the Ford Nucleon . Batshit-crazy doesn't always get axed in the process of money making. Behold, the 1974 Fascination 2DR. Five of these beauties made it out into the real world and all still exist under the care of two different...
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AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 23/01/2008
Filed under: Etc. , EV/Plug-in , Hydrogen , GM Do you remember the car pictured? It's the concept Ford Nucleon ! In the late 1950s, it would have had a small nuclear reactor and would have driven us for thousands of miles without refueling. A shame that nuclear energy has so many drawbacks (or potentials for growth, in estate agent language). But things in life seem to be cyclic sometimes and the...
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Retro Thing (Free subscription) | 09/11/2007
The futuristic Ford Nucleon gripped the public imagination in 1957. The nuclear-powered mockup was a public relations ploy intended to demonstrate that Ford planned to be on the forefront of the Atomic Age. The concept was straightforward: a miniature fission...
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Crave RSS (Free subscription) | 05/10/2007
The original Ford Fusion (Credit: Wikipedia) Two of the biggest energy-related stories of late have been the push toward alternative automotive fuels and a new-found enthusiasm for nuclear power. What better time, then, to dust down the blueprints for the Ford Nucleon, a nuclear-powered concept car that was developed in ...
