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Aaron Pizzuti
Sunday, Apr 03 9 41 AM : Mideast Conference | Speakers

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This is for the Car Lovers out there. Aaron started of by talking about the concept car and its place in car production, giving the audience a much better understanding of what a concept car is, and what it is for. Things got cool when he presented the Jeep Hurricane concept car.

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This thing was designed to be the Ultimate Jeep.
Its got:

  1. twin Hemi power plants
  2. zero spin steering (all the wheels can rotate inward 45° to allow the Hurricane to spin around its center
  3. crab steering (all the wheels can rotate in unison, allowing the Hurricane to move sideways or any other direction
  4. 700 HP
  5. A very light frame constructed out of space age materials

This is the Ultimate Jeep. There was one sticky concern, which, thankfully was vocalized during the question and answer period: What's the gas Mileage? Why isn't Jeep pursuing concept cars that are Green?

To their credit, Aaron did show a concept Jeep called the Treo from a few years back that ran on fuel cells. He also admitted that Jeep has no choice but to pursue Green technologies in the future.

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